Flippy cap woes

I've not had any trouble with the fuel cap. It's just the bar/chain oil cap. I thinking because it gets more debris on it due to location right next to bar.

 

Flippy cap 101:
1. Line up the lines on the caps when closed.
2. Before applying FCs, brush or clean off the male and female parts ( tutorial to come ).
3. Final check --do the caps leak or not tight ?

N.B. There will be punishment for misspelling "STIHL" .

 

Yep no bias there.

 

I thought the same thing until I had one go cattywumpus on me. I still don't know what problem they solved. If the issue was needing a scrench, they could have just put the flip-up handle on a regular screw cap.

 

You mean like Husky did?

 

There is a place in Hell for misspelling STIHL. You hear ?

P.S. Both STIHL ( "STIHL" ) and Husky can have ethanol gasket failures AND user mis-application.
Hey, not having to grab a metal tool to refuel and oil in winter is a good enough reason for FCs.

 

He’s the chain:
That’s before I used it to (successfully but absolutely inelegantly) drop a big dead elm. Sparks were flying. I don’t see any embedded nails but something was in there.

Edit to add: someone asked me on another thread for a picture of a chain. Put it here by mistake.

 

Dayum, That sounds like something that I would do


Doug

 

Do you really think I mispelled STEAL by accident?

On a more serous note. I feel in the long run, Stihl is now carried by the John Deere dealers. In the event someone needs service (since most saw shops are no more) they will be forced to go to the JD dealer. JD will not service anything for much under a $100 bucks if they have a tech look at it. Because of this any saw under $500 are going to be disposable. Need a sprocket or minor thing done and it won't be economically worthwhile.

Reminds me of going to the John Deere parts counter and you ask how much is it. The reply is "How much you got"?

As far as beating a dead horse, I never tire of flippy caps threads because it has the Steal heads defend something that is so stupid.

 

I've been using stihl saws with flippy caps for 7 years and haven't had a single problem (yet.)
Last week i dragged out my old 029 super to sell and the first thing i thought was , crap i didn't grab my scrench!. Of course I tried to turn the cap but it wouldn't budge...back to the garage...thinking the whole way....stupid old caps that you gotta use a wrench to open...

So yes!....flippy caps are an improvement...even if you dont like them...or dont want to admit it.

Go Team Flippy Cap

 

My 290 never had any issues. I have had it over 10 years and the flippy caps are problem free. My 261 is a pia. I might swap caps and see if that works. I would rather stay simple and use screw caps.
This reminds me of a story I heard. The USA spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a pen that would work is space with zero gravity. The Russians use a pencil. Not sure if it’s true but there is a lesson in there.

 

Reality check --the screw tops do "hole" and leak after heavy use opening and closing with a scrench.
Just saying for you FC haters.

 

Some things are just tricky!

 

Ralphie's gonna get cited for child abuse .

 

I have two saws that are 45 years old with no cap problems whatsoever, have a 361 that the flippy cap was fine until it fell apart in 3 or 4 pieces.