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Here is a couple of my flock of 45 saws! --- My favorite small saw is the Echo cs310. I have had good luck so far with most of these plastic saws and for my use they do fine.
The Blue max is a chimnaeese invention, BUT its old school choke, ( no bulb), carb with set screws you can tune it and made of metal, NOT plastic. Does a good job for me.

My big saws are old Homelite 8800 and Echo cs8000, both with 36" bars on them. The 8000 is currently on the Granberg chainsaw mill attachment.
The medium saws are mostly Homelite SXLAO's . I have and use several of these. Another good model I have is a Eager beaver 3.7 and the Baby beaver 2.0.
The plastics are mostly Homelite and Poulan.
Waiting on parts for the Poulan 4218a right now so I can put it back together.
The Homelite 3514 motor is back in and almost hooked up.
One of the SXLAO's is next up with a new block and piston to go in it.

sounds like you need to make them yourself Sonny..can you use dogs from another model saw? sometimes the parts are used on multiple different model saws like Stihl does

I've pretty much succumbed to just putting a cheap china carb on just to save time & anguish.

I have an ultrasonic cleaner and I used it to clean the carb on the old Bolens mower. the gasket set Was wrong even though I ordered it for that specific engine. Wrong info for gaskets Or some one already changed out the carb.. Either way, it was cheaper for a whole carb kit with the filter etc...