Gotta love them flippy caps!

[teacherman]

Man, that engineer who came up with these little flip caps on Stihl saws sure oughta have to clean up my shoe and my shop floor. I was in a hurry to get to a small project at a community garden, so, as is my habit on a small job, I fueled and oiled the 200T. Small oil tank overfills easily. Whatever, I wipe it of and put the cap on. Thought I got it on right. I always start a saw before I take it somewhere, to make sure it starts. Then I see the oil cap on the floor, and a puddle of oil on the floor and on my shoe. YOu know, if you need a toolless cap, why not a flip-up flange that you use to unscrew the cap. The helical inclined plane known as a threaded fitting has been around for many years, and it still works just fine. I don't care what anyone says. Those new flippy caps SUCK!!!

Notice the new 660 doesn't have them. There is a reason for that. It is a logger saw. Loggers don't like them little flip caps, simple as that.

 

[spacemule]

Careful there teach, the trance is starting to fade.

The only saw I ever had with cap issues was a Stihl, and it had the older pre flippy ones.

 

[nmurph]

i love the flip caps on my 310. i wish every saw i own had them. i don't see the issue. they have a very positive engagement and i don't have to hunt for a scrench to fill the fluids.

 

[Rookie1]

The burned 044 I put together has a screw oil cap and flippy gas cap. Im equal opportunity. So far the flip cap hasnt bothered me.:greenchainsaw:

 

[teacherman]

i love the flip caps on my 310. i wish every saw i own had them. i don't see the issue. they have a very positive engagement and i don't have to hunt for a scrench to fill the fluids.

The issue is on the oil cap when you accidently over fill it and there is oil on the inside of the engagement surface, and I could not get teh fricking thing to engage until I wiped the dam engagement surface out with a rag. I have been running saws a while, I am not an idiot, I know how to put the dam things on. But the oil cap on the smaller saws gives me trouble. These things are unnecessary. The old 026 I had for years had a nice screw in cap thatstuck out far enough to get a grip on. Need to have a scrench to keep the chain properly tensioned, so wtf is the problem keeping a scrench handy?

 

[2000ssm6]

Flippy caps are the best thing since sliced bread!

 

[spacemule]

Ah, methinks cognitive dissonance is striking the Stihl camp. opcorn:

 

[Kunes]

i have a twisty cap on my husky.
it also has a slot so you can take it off with a flathead screwdriver i thought it was pretty nifty.

 

[GASoline71]

The slot in caps has been around since... almost forever.

Gary

 

[BC_Logger]

the only saw i have with the flip caps is the ms 200 and the ms 029


the 046 and the 2 660 have screw :greenchainsaw:

 

[whitedogone]

What kind of oil do you put in your flippy caps? opcorn:

 

[Kunes]

What kind of oil do you put in your flippy caps? opcorn:

Stuff.....

 

[teacherman]

Ah, methinks cognitive dissonance is striking the Stihl camp. opcorn:

You don't even know what that means, or you wouldn't have used the term in this context.

Don't you have an ambulance to chase?:greenchainsaw:

 

[Kunes]

what the hell..

 

[spacemule]

You don't even know what that means, or you wouldn't have used the term in this context.

Don't you have an ambulance to chase?:greenchainsaw:

I am intimately familiar with that phrase, and it absolutely fits in the way I used it.

 

[Kunes]

why are we using big words.

 

[Kunes]

oh and a few of these

 

[Tired Squirrel]

Man, that engineer who came up with these little flip caps on Stihl saws sure oughta have to clean up my shoe and my shop floor. I was in a hurry to get to a small project at a community garden, so, as is my habit on a small job, I fueled and oiled the 200T. Small oil tank overfills easily. Whatever, I wipe it of and put the cap on. Thought I got it on right. I always start a saw before I take it somewhere, to make sure it starts. Then I see the oil cap on the floor, and a puddle of oil on the floor and on my shoe. YOu know, if you need a toolless cap, why not a flip-up flange that you use to unscrew the cap. The helical inclined plane known as a threaded fitting has been around for many years, and it still works just fine. I don't care what anyone says. Those new flippy caps SUCK!!!

Notice the new 660 doesn't have them. There is a reason for that. It is a logger saw. Loggers don't like them little flip caps, simple as that.

Gotta agree, I work with several guys who own stihls with the new tool-less caps and they all hate them. I have run their saws and have to say that I too hate those caps. Not only are they a pain when they don't seal but we have also twisted off a few of the flip up tabs which then makes the cap worthless. Not something you want to deal with in the middle of a job. Like the saws - Hate the caps.

 

[Evanrude]

The issue is on the oil cap when you accidently over fill it and there is oil on the inside of the engagement surface, and I could not get teh fricking thing to engage until I wiped the dam engagement surface out with a rag. I have been running saws a while, I am not an idiot, I know how to put the dam things on. But the oil cap on the smaller saws gives me trouble. These things are unnecessary. The old 026 I had for years had a nice screw in cap thatstuck out far enough to get a grip on. Need to have a scrench to keep the chain properly tensioned, so wtf is the problem keeping a scrench handy?

I'm with you on this one. They were fine, never really bothered me at first. Until it happened. I fuel up a saw and walk out to the truck and happen to notice I've got gas all over me the driveway and the garage floor. The more and more I use them, the more they piss me off. You fill the bar oil, place the cap in and it squeezes out 9/10 times because you filled it just over the bottom of the flange. Everytime I get the 660 out, I thank Stihl they didnt put them on that saw too.

 

[Slamm]

Wow, if the flip caps are too complicated to operate for some of you, I'm not sure what else could be sad.

You grab the flip cap and insert into the hole and turn it until it seats properly.

That is the simple version of the directions. If it is more complicated than that, then you all have a different approach viewing and operating modern and more effecient ways of plugging the hole in a chainsaw tank.

Heck, I would complain about the complexities of having to throw the chainsaw in one direction, while pulling the cord handle in the oppposite or setting the choke, before I complained about the simple flip cap.

Its possible that Stihl in its wisdom, provided the "simple", I mean, "complex" operating system of the flip cap to weed out a certain group of chainsaw operators?

It could be part of a complex evaluation process for the government or something who knows?

I was simply too inexperienced or just plain dumb to figure out just how complex the flip cap was operate, much less operate properly.

To each his own,

Sam