MasterBlaster
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How do you all like the gas and oil caps on the new sthils? The groundies around here are having a tough time figuring it out, it took me awhile to get used to it
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Butch, that pic is a little more info than we need!
groudie
Still hasn't figured out which way to turn it?
Still hasn't figured out which way to turn it?
The oil cap on my 200t can look like its properly fixed on but then I find a big oil patch on my pants so big, Bush has asked if I am hiding weopons of mass distruction. You just have to be triple sure its on right.
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Re: groudie
Its not so much which way to turn it, it's whether or not you've got it back on correctly - especially the oiler, that ones the bugaboo.
I've got it figured out(finally), its those newbies that are trying to service it while your up a tree. You can show them how, before you go up, they just seem to develop a mindblock about it when it comes time to do it. I've even had em bust off the top, little black twisty thing. And these caps cost more than the old ones.
The price of progress!
Its not so much which way to turn it, it's whether or not you've got it back on correctly - especially the oiler, that ones the bugaboo.
I've got it figured out(finally), its those newbies that are trying to service it while your up a tree. You can show them how, before you go up, they just seem to develop a mindblock about it when it comes time to do it. I've even had em bust off the top, little black twisty thing. And these caps cost more than the old ones.
The price of progress!
I dont get it.
I have heard some talk about the new caps in the past, whats the big deal just stick them in the hole, turn a quarter turn, flip the little black thingy down and you're done. Maybe its just me but I haven't had a single problem with mine. I am actually glad I dont have to fish a bar wrench out of my pocket to loosen and tighten my caps any more. 2 cents I probably should have put in the bank.
I have heard some talk about the new caps in the past, whats the big deal just stick them in the hole, turn a quarter turn, flip the little black thingy down and you're done. Maybe its just me but I haven't had a single problem with mine. I am actually glad I dont have to fish a bar wrench out of my pocket to loosen and tighten my caps any more. 2 cents I probably should have put in the bank.
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Re: I dont get it.
Yur hired!!!
Yur hired!!!
whodunnit
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Pretty impressive sales for an Ace hardware store! Part time at that!!!
The only problem I had with the caps was that they allow sawdust and junk to collect around the easily and its a little more to clean around them and not let the junk fall into the tanks.
What they really need is the new design but allow them to be flush with the tanks so that you can just wipe the junk away easily then open them up.
What they really need is the new design but allow them to be flush with the tanks so that you can just wipe the junk away easily then open them up.
jokers
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Why does anyone feel compelled to use a scrench on the tank caps? Then you just set yourself up for having to use the scrench forever more or it won`t seal right and your saw looks like a monkey works on it.
I`m no fan of the new caps although I have learned to use them. The fuel cap doesn`t seem to have an index mark to line it up with when you are reinstalling it, but it doesn`t seem to be a problem getting it seated properly. The oil cap does have an index mark and it can still bite you in the ass. Now I have to pull on the oil cap every time I seat it to prove that it`s installed properly. I don`t see any advantage to these caps, actually more of a PITA.
500 Stihls in an Ace Hardware YTD Huh? What`s the name of this store? Ahh, nevermind, I can find out who`s selling that many Stihls in Indiana on my own. Can also find out what sort of warranty claims you guys are making too.
Russ
I`m no fan of the new caps although I have learned to use them. The fuel cap doesn`t seem to have an index mark to line it up with when you are reinstalling it, but it doesn`t seem to be a problem getting it seated properly. The oil cap does have an index mark and it can still bite you in the ass. Now I have to pull on the oil cap every time I seat it to prove that it`s installed properly. I don`t see any advantage to these caps, actually more of a PITA.
500 Stihls in an Ace Hardware YTD Huh? What`s the name of this store? Ahh, nevermind, I can find out who`s selling that many Stihls in Indiana on my own. Can also find out what sort of warranty claims you guys are making too.
Russ
Caps
The only reason I use a bar wrench or "scrench" is to loosen the caps even if they are on just hand tight. Once in a great while a cap will fall off and then I make sure its tight with the "scrench"
"scrench" who came up with that name. LOL
The only reason I use a bar wrench or "scrench" is to loosen the caps even if they are on just hand tight. Once in a great while a cap will fall off and then I make sure its tight with the "scrench"
"scrench" who came up with that name. LOL
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
I used to keep a spare set of jeans and drawers behind the seat 'cause at least once a month the groundies would give me a oil or gas bath from hand tightening.
It feels real nice when its a crotch soaking!
It feels real nice when its a crotch soaking!
JimL
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Originally posted by whodunnit
Pretty impressive sales for an Ace hardware store! Part time at that!!!
part time? i work 8 hours a day there, 8 in the woods.
store is open 7 days a week, already sold 500+ trimmers this year,
we have around 30 more trimmers/blowers to sell to hit the 500 mark.
we sell alot of equipment.
get orders at least once a week.
I will never ever take my saw to an ace hardware store to get fixed. the last time i took my 020T in to have it repaired they put the wrong boot on it took it back and they said carburater needed adjusting okay but that wasn't it . So I took it to another dealer a little farther away done in two days and was wrong boot that was the problem saw worked like new. Hardware store dudes suck
TJACK
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I don't understand why Stihl does not use the same type of system Husky uses. If I do not use a wrench to tighten the caps on my 025, they come loose and I get a bath. My three Huskys, no wrench, no problems (I do put lithium grease on the seal). I have an old 015, which I tighten by hand and do not have any issues. Starting to make me wonder if a company has issues designing oil and gas caps.
TJACK
TJACK
marketing hyp....
Stihls' new caps...
A solution to a non existant problem... More marketing hyp than usefullness. I also find that I have more crud fall in the tanks due to the crap that builds up in all the nooks and crannys with these new caps.
Harry
Stihls' new caps...
A solution to a non existant problem... More marketing hyp than usefullness. I also find that I have more crud fall in the tanks due to the crap that builds up in all the nooks and crannys with these new caps.
Harry
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
The new Stihl caps I like, but never take a bar wrench, more than gentle to the old style cap. Oh ya, I tweeked the H on my KD 385, and man did it ever respond! Thanks to the 32;1, I will always be saw ready. Never a dull moment.
John
John
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
My 385 KD gives a whole new definition to the word, "chainsaw".
Faster than a stock, anything you can throw at it.
Square ground, get the Silvey, makes the trees piss their roots.
John
Faster than a stock, anything you can throw at it.
Square ground, get the Silvey, makes the trees piss their roots.
John
