Stihl M-Tronic Version 3.0

[MustangMike]

Why foul your plug faster than you need? IMO, 40:1 provides plenty of protection.

 

[RI Chevy]

My plug at 36:1

 

[MustangMike]

OK, but that 36:1 ate your gloves away!

 

[RI Chevy]

Lol. I sharpened too many chains. I use my thumb for a guide sometimes. [emoji106]

 

[sawmikaze]

Any if you guys try running different oil ratios? 32:1? Or richer? Does it help the innerds? Does mtronic compensate for it?

I'll get my stones busted for this..

But I doubt your 261 is gonna have any long term benefit from that heavy of a ratio..I don't think your even gonna put the load on it to burn the oil in a 50cc saw...I run 50:1 now in alot of my small saws..with a good oil like HP2 it's just fine.

Shoot me.

 

[RI Chevy]

I hear you Ryan.

 

[MustangMike]

Jeff, a paint stirrer is a lot cheaper (free even), and I have demonstrated how to use em, and they are much firmer than your thumb!

 

[MustangMike]

I'll agree that 50:1 with good oil is just fine. Heck, for 18 years the 044 ran on 50:1 dino oil, and it is fine!

But now it has more compression, timing, and runs stronger, so 40:1 just gives me a little insurance, especially when I use a saw for milling.

 

[RI Chevy]

Lol. I hear you Mike.
We all got our little sharpening styles and techniques and our own ways of doing what we do. Lol. [emoji106]

 

[huskyboy]

Is this turning into another oil thread? Lol

 

[RI Chevy]

Oil mtronic specific. Lol. YUP

 

[ABarrick]

I can assure you that none of the wood hoes I know are gonna understand any of this stuff and know what to do if their chainsaws starts acting funny, maybe I'm just a stick in the mud.

Most/none of the wood hoes I know could tell you how to adjust a regular carb anyway. Most are happy if it starts in less than 20 pulls and the "blade" is sharp (or their interpretation of sharp). I would bet most changes other than types of gas caps, and chain adjustment/removal procedures go largely unnoticed by the masses.

 

[RI Chevy]

Good points.

 

[tree monkey]

pine on the landing



same pine at the mill, about 1/3 of it was already sawn





logs on the mill

 

[tree monkey]

around 14,000 board feet of lumber from those logs





some oak logs on the landing


so all this was cut with a 50cc saw, pine over 36", oak over 28" in those piles.

you all can mix your gas anyway you want. my saws get used so it's 32/1 for me

 

[RI Chevy]

32:1 in mtronic. Good deal! Thank you for piping in sir.

 

[tree monkey]

oak logs at the mill



set up to saw oak

 

[huskihl]

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oak logs at the mill

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set up to saw oak

Gotta say... I'm pretty damn happy for you that you're up and running again.

Dolmar synthetic is better than Red Armor

 

[Stihl working Hard]

OK, but that 36:1 ate your gloves away!

LMFAO

 

[sawmikaze]

Most/none of the wood hoes I know could tell you how to adjust a regular carb anyway. Most are happy if it starts in less than 20 pulls and the "blade" is sharp (or their interpretation of sharp). I would bet most changes other than types of gas caps, and chain adjustment/removal procedures go largely unnoticed by the masses.

I tried to explain the old reset procedure to the guy I work for on a 362, he had no idea what I was even talking about, saws are a write off and a tool to him..nothing else, they wont live to see a top end put on let alone a bottom end rebuild..its not cost effective if you pay someone, those saws go on the shelf to be stripped for the very few parts left that are worth a *s-word.

I got put in charge of our fuel/maintenace..but the extra oil isn't gonna make the saw survive abuse by 6 guys this summer...when it's all said and done he'll go buy a couple new ones and that will be that.

My 201 pukes oil out the exhaust at 44:1 with HP2..and by October its gonna look like it stormed the beach at Normandy..but I guess the bearings will still be good.