Recognize this screw?

[atpchas]

I was milling today with my MS661 C-M and found this screw on the beam after I'd just finished a cut. I don't recognize it as anything I've seen in other Stihl saws (026 036 046 066) but I've not taken a 661 C-M completely apart. It is approximately 3mm in diameter, 17mm long (an odd length, could be anything from 15mm to 18mm depending on what part is measured) and calls for a Torx T10 driver. I've checked the IPL and didn't find a match, but I could have missed it.

 

[alexcagle]

Maybe your flywheel magnet picked up a stray screw up in whatever you transported it in, or where stowed it.

 

[HarleyT]

Take it by a hardware store and see if it is metric or what.

 

[JonCraig]

Doesn’t look Stihl-y to me. I don’t know that I’ve seen any pan heads on any of mine.

From the mill, maybe?

 

[atpchas]

Doesn’t look Stihl-y to me. I don’t know that I’ve seen any pan heads on any of mine.

From the mill, maybe?

Doesn't look "Stihl-y" to me, either. I'm virtually certain there is nothing like that on a Granberg Alaskan Mill but it occurs to me that it might be from one of the tape measures we were using. I'll check that tomorrow. We're hoping to finish milling support beams for the bridge that burned during the recent fire. No bridge means no vehicle access to half the property.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

Doesn't look "Stihl-y" to me, either. I'm virtually certain there is nothing like that on a Granberg Alaskan Mill but it occurs to me that it might be from one of the tape measures we were using. I'll check that tomorrow. We're hoping to finish milling support beams for the bridge that burned during the recent fire. No bridge means no vehicle access to half the property.

It does look like the screw on a tape for the belt clip.

 

[1Alpha1]

Yeah, that's an odd-ball looking screw. Doesn't look to be "chainsaw related" to me.

 

[alexcagle]

It fell off the alien spacecraft that abducted you, then wiped your memory.

 

[blsnelling]

That for sure didn't come from your saw.

 

[1Alpha1]

I've got some screws nearly identical to that one. For the life of me though, I can't recall where I got them, or what they came off of.

Give me a couple of years. I'll come to me................

 

[stihl saws]

It's not off a saw. It looks like the screw that holds those flip out Allen wrenches together.

 

[HarleyT]

It's not off a saw. It looks like the screw that holds those flip out Allen wrenches together.

 

[stihl saws]

View attachment 614762

Just like that.

 

[HarleyT]

I never took one apart.... The top looks like it may be different, maybe we could see a pic.

 

[HarleyT]

Looks like @ a t20 or 25

 

[atpchas]

The screw does not appear to have come from the tape measure and I'm sure it didn't come from the bench brush we use to sweep the sawdust off the work.
Still a mystery.

 

[atpchas]

Mystery solved. Screw came from the stubby ratchet wrench we use to tighten/loosen nuts on the mill. I put a dab of LocTite on the threads so with luck the screw will stay put.


Thanks for all the suggestions, especially the one introducing alien intervention as a possibility.

 

[1Alpha1]

Mystery solved. Screw came from the stubby ratchet wrench we use to tighten/loosen nuts on the mill. I put a dab of LocTite on the threads so with luck the screw will stay put.
View attachment 615144

Thanks for all the suggestions, especially the one introducing alien intervention as a possibility.

Well okay then..............