Hi folks.
Was looking at my dad's ms260 the other day, put a new spring clip in it for the master control lever. Woudn't you know it, that clip didn't work right until I bent around on it! The 026/260 has to have the worst MCL design Stihl ever invented! Anyway...
This saw has flippy caps. The way flippy caps work, as far as I can tell, is that they have a shank with 3 bayonet-style lugs and a collar with an O-ring.
The way they are supposed to work is that the initial turn of the cap seats the lugs into the mating lugs on the tank, then after the lugs are engaged, a cam in the cap tightens the O-ring on down.
Well, for whatever reason, my dad's saw cap doesn't want to engage the lugs. If you just put the cap on normally, all that happens is you get the O-ring tightening action, but the lugs never lock in at all. He's figured out how to do it -- by using the tip of an awl in the small holes under the flip handle, he can push the shank into full lug engagement, then turn the flip handle to tighten up the O-ring and get the proper final position.
I looked all over the tank and cap and couldn't see any reason why it's not working right... no errant wood chips or sawdust :monkey:
I am familiar with proper flippy operation and used to be a fan of them.
Was looking at my dad's ms260 the other day, put a new spring clip in it for the master control lever. Woudn't you know it, that clip didn't work right until I bent around on it! The 026/260 has to have the worst MCL design Stihl ever invented! Anyway...
This saw has flippy caps. The way flippy caps work, as far as I can tell, is that they have a shank with 3 bayonet-style lugs and a collar with an O-ring.
The way they are supposed to work is that the initial turn of the cap seats the lugs into the mating lugs on the tank, then after the lugs are engaged, a cam in the cap tightens the O-ring on down.
Well, for whatever reason, my dad's saw cap doesn't want to engage the lugs. If you just put the cap on normally, all that happens is you get the O-ring tightening action, but the lugs never lock in at all. He's figured out how to do it -- by using the tip of an awl in the small holes under the flip handle, he can push the shank into full lug engagement, then turn the flip handle to tighten up the O-ring and get the proper final position.
I looked all over the tank and cap and couldn't see any reason why it's not working right... no errant wood chips or sawdust :monkey:
I am familiar with proper flippy operation and used to be a fan of them.
