betterbuilt
I build stuff from milled slabs
About a month back I was milling a log and the decompression valve on my 076 worked its way out. To make a long story short it I had to pick up another Stihl Piston and rings. Well after going through the saw from top to bottom I thought I had everything sorted. I put a 42 in bar on it and went to the saw mill and cut a 5 foot log into little 16x16 blocks with it. I thought It was running pretty good. Well I got a call about a 56-51 Maple so I packed the car and headed over to mill it up. I put a milled the first cut with no problems. I started the second cut and made it about 6 inches and some thing wasn't quite right. When I would throttle it up to WOT it would start to bog down. Any how I wasn't taking any chances so I packed up to go home. Well I've been thinking about having a newer saw to have just in case something like this happens. It was about 2:30 and the saw shop closes at 3:00. I gave them a call and told them I'm ready. It'll be here on Wednesday.
Now to the stupid mistake. This is a least worth a laugh or two. I racked my brain over what the saw was doing the whole way home and nothing came to mind. So got back to the shop and was gonna tear into it. The 066 was taking up the bench so I figured I'd work on it and clear the bench. Well half way through getting the 066 back together the little bulb in the back of my head came on. I forgot to change the rim from 404 back to 3/8. All my milling Chains are 3/8 and the 42 inch bar was 404. I felt like such a dunce. I can't believe I made the first cut with out noticing what was going on. It seemed to cut fine.
Well I'm not regretting the mistake. So my real question is how much do I need to break this saw in before I can mill with it. I normally mill with 40:1 is that gonna be a big problem. I'm looking for pointers on this saw what problems might I have. What spare parts should I have on hand. I already have a ton of parts and I'm not looking forward to any more. I know, I know, you'll get your pic's.
Now to the stupid mistake. This is a least worth a laugh or two. I racked my brain over what the saw was doing the whole way home and nothing came to mind. So got back to the shop and was gonna tear into it. The 066 was taking up the bench so I figured I'd work on it and clear the bench. Well half way through getting the 066 back together the little bulb in the back of my head came on. I forgot to change the rim from 404 back to 3/8. All my milling Chains are 3/8 and the 42 inch bar was 404. I felt like such a dunce. I can't believe I made the first cut with out noticing what was going on. It seemed to cut fine.
Well I'm not regretting the mistake. So my real question is how much do I need to break this saw in before I can mill with it. I normally mill with 40:1 is that gonna be a big problem. I'm looking for pointers on this saw what problems might I have. What spare parts should I have on hand. I already have a ton of parts and I'm not looking forward to any more. I know, I know, you'll get your pic's.
