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Atf/acetone is good. Also if you are heating the surrounding metal, use candle wax. keep it liquid for 30-ish seconds, let cool and you should be able to remove the screw. flattening 2 sides of the screw so the vice grips can grab is good. Oh, are you using "real" vice-grips or cheap china...

Oh, crazy thing the sales person said. I told him i wanted a 20" bar and the rapid cut chain. He looked at me and said " I can't sell it with that chain, it's illegal " but he could sell me it as an extra chain. And he did give a 10% discount on the chain. Anyone else hear this line of hoey?

I felt "nekked" without a saw!

Update, decided to just replace what was lost. Bought another 261, but the c version this time.

Looking for new or used but not beat on. If that makes sense.

Hi, sad news. Was volunteering at our public range cutting brush, small trees and coming home the tailgate flopped open. Saw, gear, everything .... out the back. Some lucky ducker had Christmas in October. And i lost a carbureted sthil 261 with MM and a new 20" bar. That size / weight / power...

I have 3 brush cutters from home owner quality Husky to commercial quality EFCO. But for 6 kilometers of trail, I'd use a tractor with bush hog. Far more appropriate tool for that scope of task, IMHO. Look into renting or finding a neighbor with a tractor and cutter that you can pay to do...

The discussion here had missed the point of WHY the carb must be adjusted. The small port muffler causes SIGNIFICANT amounts of exhaust with ZERO unreacted oxygen to stay in the combustion chamber into the next cycle. This fraction of the air in the chamber increases with rpm and acts like a...

I like that price on the 261. Id jump on it. Fyi, mine really woke up with a touch of grinder on the muffler.

On the bright side, it's not some simple issue! Good luck

Every time I think of something to check, the next post is you trying it and I not working. Sorry no help, just sympathy!

Fyi During out time of linkbuckedness, I checked spark and found it. Rebuilt the carb and found a mix of 80w90 and baby diaper fillings cclogging it up. Who knew gas did that after sitting for "only" a dozen years? Well, put the carb back and it fired on the very first yank. Cool. Ran it...

I baby my saw so I run equal parts baby oil, 87 oct gas and a bottle cheap hooch in every 5 gal of mix. Makes my stihl run as good as a yard sale wild thing! Hmmmm not sure if that's good or not, come to think about it...

My neighbor has a real honest to goodness industrial parts washer in his 30×50 heated shop. Stuff comes out soooooo nice and all you have to do is set the timer, pop a brewsky, bs and wait. He sells them and the cleaner to shops. I know he yaks about flamability and safety as his selling...

I'd just clean the cyl, piston and put in new fuel line then see how it runs. But a vac / pressure test to verify good seal would be smart...

X2 on pawn shops being way crazy on pricing around here. Broken junk priced HIGHER than new for most tools. Just plain stupid as I refusr to even start negotiating with the

Its official... your new nickname is "hoover", cuz YOU SUCK! Congratulations ;)

Huh.... Well, I've got a "chore" for the morning then! Look for sparkies.

If it's just time... what's hold'n you back?

Really? Why?