Red Armor is the stuff!

[Marshy]

Not quite. lol Just cause I didn't know ratios doesn't not make me a mechanic. And for your info I'm completely restoring a 50 year old truck by myself as well. So....maybe you shouldn't be so quick to judge buddy. I'd be happy to post pictures of the work I have done on it so you can see I'm not as stupid as you think. lol

Simmah down now, I didn't call you stupid. Just pointing out that for someone who touts themselves as a chainsaw mechanic they ought to understand mixed fuel ratios.

 

[CoreyB]

I plan to give red armor a shot, so far have had good luck with husky xp oil and dolmar synthetic. Found a place a few miles from home that sells red armor and a guy I know from north carolina swears by it so we'll give it a go. 2.5 gal mix bottle to 2 gal of gas as always.

I really like the Dolmar synthetic as well.

 

[Czed]

I'll try the dolmar synthetic if I can find it so far red armor at 40-1 doesn't give me headaches like husky and stihl oil does I don't know why but several loggers have said the same and switched to red armor or other oils.

 

[Hinerman]

I haven't seen it mentioned, but Red Armor is semi-synthetic if anybody is interested. They don't state this anywhere on there product, flyers, or website. I emailed them for the answer. I am using some right now (on my first 2 gallons).

 

[TJ the Chainsaw Mechanic]

Simmah down now, I didn't call you stupid. Just pointing out that for someone who touts themselves as a chainsaw mechanic they ought to understand mixed fuel ratios.

I don't "tout" myself as being a mechanic. It's in my user name....BIG DEAL. lol I am a mechanic at a shop and I love my work. And guess what! I now understand mix ratios. And since your such a perfection freak I'll explain why I didn't understand in the first place! At the shop we run 50:1 in EVERYTHING. That's it. All I needed to know was to put a 2.6 bottle of mix in a 1 gallon can and I was good to go. If my boss wanted me to know other ratios he would have told me, and If I thought I needed to, I would have done the research. Not all mechanics know Everything. I bet I know alot of things that you don't...and should I start downing you because of it? Here's something, and Don't look it up! Right down for me the Quadratic formula. You should have learned this in Algebra 2.

 

[Mark71gtx]

Let's drop the bickering please...

 

[Genius]

Red Armor is all I use, like Jimmy stated I buy the containers for 2.5 gallon mix and add that to 2 gallons.

 

[Marshy]

I don't "tout" myself as being a mechanic. It's in my user name....BIG DEAL. lol I am a mechanic at a shop and I love my work. And guess what! I now understand mix ratios. And since your such a perfection freak I'll explain why I didn't understand in the first place! At the shop we run 50:1 in EVERYTHING. That's it. All I needed to know was to put a 2.6 bottle of mix in a 1 gallon can and I was good to go. If my boss wanted me to know other ratios he would have told me, and If I thought I needed to, I would have done the research. Not all mechanics know Everything. I bet I know alot of things that you don't...and should I start downing you because of it? Here's something, and Don't look it up! Right down for me the Quadratic formula. You should have learned this in Algebra 2.

 

[fordf150]

I think they dropped the price on the red armor or i just hassled my rep enough for him to give me a better deal on it. He has been getting on me for not selling any Echo/red armor oil so he almost begged me this spring to buy some and i told him it was too expensive. An hour later i finally agreed to take a few cases. Its down close to the same price as the dolmar/makita oil. $3 for 2.5gal bottle.

 

[Genius]

I think they dropped the price on the red armor or i just hassled my rep enough for him to give me a better deal on it. He has been getting on me for not selling any Echo/red armor oil so he almost begged me this spring to buy some and i told him it was too expensive. An hour later i finally agreed to take a few cases. Its down close to the same price as the dolmar/makita oil. $3 for 2.5gal bottle.

If I renember right that's about what I pay.

I'll find out shortly. I need to get some today, I'm going to stop at my dealer before I go home for lunch.

 

[CoreyB]

I think they dropped the price on the red armor or i just hassled my rep enough for him to give me a better deal on it. He has been getting on me for not selling any Echo/red armor oil so he almost begged me this spring to buy some and i told him it was too expensive. An hour later i finally agreed to take a few cases. Its down close to the same price as the dolmar/makita oil. $3 for 2.5gal bottle.

Locally it is $6 for 2.5 gal and $9 for the 5 gal mix.
@fordf150 I will have to try and remember when I ordered my L&T bar to get some.

 

[TJ the Chainsaw Mechanic]

Let's drop the bickering please...

What I get for asking a question. lol

 

[Mark71gtx]

@fordf150 - I didn't see it in your website...

 

[Genius]

i just picked up a 6 pack of the 2.5 gallon mix.

$18.50, a touch over $3 a bottle


I'm pretty sure that Stihl Ultra is $5-6 a bottle

 

[fordf150]

@fordf150 - I didn't see it in your website...

just got them in for the first time a couple weeks ago. i have been slacking on adding new stuff to the site. just a time issue because i have a new site that is almost ready to go live as soon as i have time to get all the price files updated for the partsmart and add all the extra's in the custom catalogs.

 

[jakethesnake]

Ok so I can be taunted why we callin this stuff pre mix? I buy quarts or gallons of two cycle oil We all talkin the same thing here

 

[Genius]

Ok so I can be taunted why we callin this stuff pre mix? I buy quarts or gallons of two cycle oil We all talkin the same thing here

 

[Nitroman]

Nice. This is a tad over 2 years use on Husky xp erl (89 oct. w/eth), mostly 40/1. Recently been milling with it (394).
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Dang that's nice.

 

[Chainsaw Jim]

I'd advise pulling your jug to clean all the carbon before switching to red armor...especially if the previous oil used was Stihl ultra. It will clean enough carbon off to cause considerable wear on the piston. Like a polishing compound.

 

[Wolverine]

Last 6 pack of Husky XP I bought @ my local dealer was just shy of $20 (5.2 oz'ers).