I received my safety recall notice today, anyone else?
I received my safety recall notice today, anyone else?
I went by my dealer today and picked up two new caps. All they needed were the serial numbers off the trimmers.
Okay, I'll give this one a big BUMP! Been reading about the flippy cap issue and here is my 2 cents! If I had had a good understanding of how these caps work, I would have never had a problem with them short of having to use a screw driver point to rotate the dogs into position prior to twisting and flipping the bail. (sarcasm) However, this complicated little plastic mechanism is not easy to understand at first. That said, I spilled three tanks of fuel in my lap from my new MS260 and dribbled chain oil on my shop floor several times before I finally figured out that I was not getting those dogs fully engaged. Needless to say, I was furious. Being a design engineer by trade, I was flabbergasted by the intricacy, delicacy, and complication involved in the design of this Rube Goldberg cap! Align, insert, rotate, twist, flip. Absolutely ridiculous in my book. Oh, and I just stopped in the other day at my local dealer to get a new o-ring installed on my gas cap so it would turn again. There is no excuse for this. Obviously a "sacred cow" design that was invented by someone with family ties way up the ladder at Stihl corporate!!! Hey Stihl....Just give us a threaded gas cap no more complicated than a single piece of plastic with an o-ring seal...no big deal!!!
Sorry for the rant, but this strikes a chord with me. Just happy I didn't catch fire when I spilled all that gasoline on my lap!!!!
You do realize this thread is several years old?
You do realize this thread is several years old?
no offense dude, but only an engineer could have trouble with a flippy cap.Okay, I'll give this one a big BUMP! Been reading about the flippy cap issue and here is my 2 cents! If I had had a good understanding of how these caps work, I would have never had a problem with them short of having to use a screw driver point to rotate the dogs into position prior to twisting and flipping the bail. (sarcasm) However, this complicated little plastic mechanism is not easy to understand at first. That said, I spilled three tanks of fuel in my lap from my new MS260 and dribbled chain oil on my shop floor several times before I finally figured out that I was not getting those dogs fully engaged. Needless to say, I was furious. Being a design engineer by trade, I was flabbergasted by the intricacy, delicacy, and complication involved in the design of this Rube Goldberg cap! Align, insert, rotate, twist, flip. Absolutely ridiculous in my book. Oh, and I just stopped in the other day at my local dealer to get a new o-ring installed on my gas cap so it would turn again. There is no excuse for this. Obviously a "sacred cow" design that was invented by someone with family ties way up the ladder at Stihl corporate!!! Hey Stihl....Just give us a threaded gas cap no more complicated than a single piece of plastic with an o-ring seal...no big deal!!!
Sorry for the rant, but this strikes a chord with me. Just happy I didn't catch fire when I spilled all that gasoline on my lap!!!!
Maybe it's just me (again), but I'm not having any issues with flippy caps. But then again, I don't care if it takes me 1.7 seconds longer to complete a cut cause my saw ain't ported
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