Andrew Gruetzmacher

Thank you Mr. Smith for your detailed answer.  It turns out that I did not have a H25.  The chain that came on the saw had H25 on the tooth links so I assumed that was the number.  As it turns out, the driver teeth had 30 on them.  In any case, the bar is a .05 width not .058 like the H25.  So, my real issue was whether or not the guide that I purchased was going to fit on a thicker bar, but it turns out I ordered the right guide and the wrong chain because I thought I was so right that I never even bothered checking the specs written right on the bar.  After free handing for a while I did check lengths of each tooth and made them as uniform as I could and used the guide.  A snap compared to trying to do it freehand more because I can focus more on pressure and good strokes than on the angle I am holding everything.  Didn't do much cutting as all my wood is stacked but the few hunks I did really seemed to mimic what I remember the saw cutting like when I first took it home from the store.  It all worked out except for the H25 chain that I ordered that is going to be .058 drive teeth.  I will take that as a fairly cheap learning tax if I can't return it.  Same way I learned that a 5/32 or a 7/32 is not going to be able to "wing it" when in a pinch.  (those were the only two choices at the store at the time two years ago and I figured I would by both and see which one would work best...close enough right??? haha)  So now I have spent about 30 dollars total on extra stuff between a wrong chain and some wrong files in the past 4 years but feel that I have learned the lessons the best way possible (by failure).  Thanks again for your input.