I buy gallons of Husky oil for 9.99 and stihl for 12.00. Even Lowes sells Husky oil for about $10. I refuse to run cheap oil in 800-$1000 saws.
Your right, IMO.
There have been a lot of bar-oil threads over the years here.
Most here were good with running Stihl oil over the Panda piss from wally-world when the price was around $8 & $4 a gallon.
Now at twice that price, is there that much less ware protection then before?
Or was it a good idea then, but not worth it now with the extra price?
Having to replace components before it was time has a huge cost. Some could justify buying a lot of drive-sprockets and bars with the cost difference between the types of oils. But IMO it is not worth the extra hassle, I will price in the good oil as long as I can.
A direction some have taken on there 660's has been to install the hi-output oilers, I am very glad I did on mine it leaves me an option to run more diverse oil.
With the price hike in the better bars oils, I will look into running the hi-output oiler in my 361 now and maybe start blending my own. (little cheep/little good oil? stihl might be just worth it to run the good stuff?)
But I stihl will never run wally-world oil again, it dose not do an adequate job IMO.
Anyone have the PN: for the the hi-output oiler for the ms-361 (was it the oiler from a 441 ?