Must be time to rekindle the old 090

[Weesa20]

Well gmax with one hand me down 070 it possibly is and like me you wouldn't have years and years of experience on them ........... now the days of doing a full days work with them have long gone so it's mainly to have one for the sake of having one without paying an arm or leg for some overpriced worn out thing off ebay and unless your going to keep another 50 years you can get some fun out of it.

Besides mine ain't 105cc but have been upgraded to 090's at 137cc

But you don't really "have one"- you have a copy of a design that was stolen and built with probably inferior materials and labor- that's like saying you have a Picasso or Monetw when you have a copy

 

[ozflea]

Who really cares I know mine are copies and I'm happy I saved a buck and for what I saved I can rebuild it a few times over and still be in front

 

[066blaster]

anyway most companies are making things cheaper now days, thinner metal,s more and thinner plastics, not really meant to last forever, but is is nice to get replacement parts cheap when they do break, go to a stihl dealer to get a part and there 4 times what you can get them on the internet for. and they still have to order them cause their to cheap to stock their own parts. and the guys working at the counter dont know s#it about them. I wish they would let some small independent shops sell them.

 

[NewToStihl]

090's are 090's at 137cc and that's what I have 070's with 090 top ends .... plus 090 flywheels and starter assy's .... so 090's except for the oil line for the oiler is copper tube as of the 070

Price wise I shopped ebay and saved heaps

This isn't entirely true. One big difference you didn't mention is that the 090 has a larger 6-shoe clutch and the 070 has a smaller 3-shoe clutch.

 

[ozflea]

Well come to mention that mine has a 6 shoe one as well

 

[Eddy_t]

This isn't entirely true. One big difference you didn't mention is that the 090 has a larger 6-shoe clutch and the 070 has a smaller 3-shoe clutch.

My 090 has the 070 clutch fitted, it still delivers the same performance and only engages 100rpm lower than the 090 clutch, but costs 1/4 of the price, and yes, mine is a real 090 (actually it's a modified contra super, but it's still German). The Chinese copies do look good, and should be of the same quality as the old 090's, possibly better with modern manufacturing processes, and also the parts can be obtained at 1/5 of the price of stihl!


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[ozflea]

Eddy you have seen the light pity the others are a tad slow .................................

 

[Macman125]

Im not trashing the saw. I wouldnt mind getting one. I would just like to see how it runs. In the meantime I will have fun with my 125.

 

[belgian]

Sorry Bob, but seeing a die hard American magnesium lover falling in love with china made copies of german boat anchors is depressing. I can't feel any love for them chintook wannabees, even if you gave me one for free.

 

[NewToStihl]

My 090 has the 070 clutch fitted, it still delivers the same performance and only engages 100rpm lower than the 090 clutch, but costs 1/4 of the price, and yes, mine is a real 090 (actually it's a modified contra super, but it's still German). The Chinese copies do look good, and should be of the same quality as the old 090's, possibly better with modern manufacturing processes, and also the parts can be obtained at 1/5 of the price of stihl!


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I didn't say the 3-shoe was inferior, I was just correcting his statement about the differences between the models.

 

[NewToStihl]

This is all really an empty argument....

I can buy a very nice Japanese Rolex knock-off that will look great & work flawlessly . . . But it's not a Rolex, it's a fake.

I can build a great A/C Cobra kit car that looks awesome & runs like a scalded ape . . . But it's not a real Shelby, it's a fake.

This Chinese knock-offs might be great saws, but that doesn't mean when you buy one you have a Stihl 090, just a fake.

It's a chainsaw; a big, loud, badass chainsaw. You either have a real Stihl or an imitation - doesn't really matter, just own up to whichever you own...

 

[ausneil 1]

Have a read through this boys, he's fishing again and you guys are the fish.

McBob's new Alky Burning Stihl 090
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[NewToStihl]

The warning is appreciated, but we're aware of the history & he was called out earlier in this thread for being up to his antics again. He even used the word 'rekindle' in the thread title.

You assume (as I'm sure he does as well) that he's playing with us...

 

[Chris-PA]

It's a piece of mass produced machinery, not a one-off masterpiece of art. If you make the same parts out of the same materials and put them together then it's the same machine. It doesn't take on a German character because German people assembled it, or Chinese if they do - it's just inert pieces of metal. If it has any character that is due to the people who designed it and chose how it would work and go together, which is unaffected by who makes it.

Certainly, the Chinese could never make a chainsaw: http://www.space.com/23938-china-moon-rover-landing-lunar-prospecting.html

Only a fool underestimates their competition.

 

[ozflea]

Well Neil if only you were as popular as ol McBob (ozflea) people might take a bit of interest in what your saying ............. besides Belguim I occasionally sit on the other side of the fence ............. and besides those who knock the product well would they really know and would rather bury them selves in hearsay even Stihls almighty 090 doesn't last forever but as a shelve queen it might just like the Chinese ones

 

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[samdweezel05]

LMAO, here is my video response to this....Let me introduce you to my poor old Mac super Pro 80.....That's 82cc's and 40 years old. I would have thought about buying one of these knockoffs just for fun till I saw the video.

 

[ReggieT]

YIKES!! That thing cuts the same way old folks make love: 'REAL DAM SLOW!" I'll pass...my 034 would eat that saw alive!

 

[ozflea]

Well no one said they were fast not an 070 @105cc and the poor old 090 is not that much quicker ................ time is a bugger so are peoples memories of what was suppose to be a giant killer

 

[ozflea]

LMAO, here is my video response to this....Let me introduce you to my poor old Mac super Pro 80.....That's 82cc's and 40 years old. I would have thought about buying one of these knockoffs just for fun till I saw the video.

Don't tell please an 070 flogged by an 82cc Mac SP-80 ..................... whats this world coming too