Two dead mills!

[mtngun]

Anyway, thank you for doing the experiment that I have always wanted to try with a cheap saw.

:msp_lol: You crack me up, Bob. :msp_smile:

Call me a 'fraidy cat, but I'm not going to try 100:1 in my milling saw.

 

[BobL]

I guess I have survived this long because I always put in a "dollop" more oil than that, and I never mix exactly 5 L of fuel, usually it's a smaller amount that I have to eyeball in the jerrycan and I try to be conservative.

I'm also the fan of the "extra dollop" and one time I even worked out what represented and it came out to be 38.5:1.

This is a really good lesson for all of us - paid for by Dan.
We all pay for lessons, eventually. . . . .

 

[john taliaferro]

I'm also the fan of the "extra dollop" and one time I even worked out what represented and it came out to be 38.5:1.

This is a really good lesson for all of us - paid for by Dan.
We all pay for lessons, eventually. . . . .

SORRY DAN I always do one bottle ultra with 2 1/4 gallons 93 and figured that to be bout 40 to 1 ?

 

[betterbuilt]

http://www.baileysonline.com/itemdetail.asp?item=17090&catID=

I'm telling you this is a neat little tool. It has all the different types of mixtures you might need and no guessing. The best $5 I've ever spent.

 

[srcarr52]

I just bought a case of the little bottles from Baileys that go straight into a 2.5 gallon tank for 50:1. Did this after my friend smoked an 026 and his outboard in the same week. Fixed the saw and gave him the oil to protect my time investment.

$1 of oil is not worth a $500 saw. Just my opinion. When I'm running anything hard I'll give it the extra splash for good measure.

I know a lot of snowmobile engines are starving for oil from the factory to meet emissions, many people back the auto oilers off a little more and then mix oil in the tank to bump it back under 50:1. Theory is that the mixed fuel gets to parts of the engine better then the injected oil.

 

[jimdad07]

Trying to catch up in the milling forum a little bit and was reading this thread. Very sorry to hear about your losses. You might want to get those saws back and get a p and c kit for both of them. You would be amazed at how easy it is to make the repairs you need yourself. I have been running the Stihl mix at 50:1 and have had no problems. I run my milling saw pig rich and it puts up with some punishment.