Good CLEAN advice

[Mange]

I have thought about that, but since I do not heat it up so often, it just seem pointless. It takes about 20 minuets to heat it to 50 degrees Celsius. That is more than enough for what i need to wash.
I will build my own if i can't get one at a reasonable price, a new is pretty pricey.

 

[Stumper]

Glen, That is indeed a pretty picture-I prefer Huskies and Dolmars but a bevy of Stihls are very handsome.

 

[Toneman]

Nice work glens! Very nice saws Beavergirl

 

[Lakeside53]

S-

How's the garden these days? Are you sure you've not mixed some marigolds in with the ICBM's?

C-

Nice... Do you actually use them? or maybe you just have a spare set of nice bars for Photo ops?

 

[Lakeside53]

It's wet and miserable a lot out here (Washington). Cutting doug fir all day in the rain leaves a mass of pitchy red crud over everything, including me. I just hit them (036, 026, 020T and others) with the garden hose on full (just not the air filter). Drain them for a few minutes, start up until warm, clean up the air filters and store away for the next rainy day. I'f I'm not too dead tired, I blow them with my air gun after the wash, mainly to get the crud out of the carb box and sometimes squirt WD40 all over the bar and inside the chain cover. With doug fir or other pitchy softwoods, cleaning today is always easier than tomorrow...

Look at your saw after a wet day cutting - it's packed full of wet muck and it's soaked in every place. Still runs great, so I figure hitting it with clean water isn't doing any harm.

 

[Toneman]

Washing with a clean stream of water from a garden hose will not harm anything. I do my saws all the time that way. Just don't spray directly in to the carb and you will be fine

 

[wazzuwoodcutter]

The super clean is an amazing product...I work at the local NAPA store when Im not busy with school, we sell it by the case to a local quick lube place and it does a bang up job of keeping that hole free from oily grime so....but I definatly would be careful where it is very caustic...we had a few jugs that leaked all over everything one time - it stripped the paint off of our aluminum display shelves and left them fairly discolored.

 

[toolmaker]

038 Magnum

A couple of years ago there was a fellow selling brand new 038 Mag saws on the internet, I think it might have been ebay.
He was from Canada and I can't remember his name or e-mail address
He told me that about this time of year Stihl made a run of 038 Mag saws on a sort of limited basis.
Does anyone know if this is still happening?
I would like to be able to find a brand new 038.
Thnaks

 

[Toneman]

They are still produced in Brasil. Log on to www.Stihl.com and select Brasil as the country and you will find it. They may call it a MS 380, but it looks like the 038 Magnum I have.

 

[glens]

I think Mexico still has them as well.  Maybe you could get one of your new neighbors to bring one back with them next time they go visit their family back home.

Glen

http://www.stihl.com.mx/nav/getProducto.cgi?id=10&x=9&y=0

 

[sedanman]

Cool! I'm off to Mexico for an 051,070,076!