You guys must have shitty pump gas over there. People complain about our gas in the USA but at least around here it isn't a problem. We have 10% ethanol in the gas but it has been that way for 30 years and everything I own was built after the ethanol change, so it is designed to handle ethanol...
Orange bottle Stihl oil is marginal at best. Really crappy stuff and not much better than the generic hardware store crap. Stihl does make good mix oil but they charge well for it. Get the grey bottle, not the orange.
This is for mix oil, not bar oil. Bar lube is a one-time-use drip...
Use a good synthetic mix oil and they have fuel stabilizers in them already. I use Stihl synthetic (grey bottle). The orange bottle Stihl mix is garbage IMO. I've opened up plenty of saws run on Stihl regular mix and they are always gummed up and cruddy inside. Use the grey bottle stuff. I buy...
I can't remember the last time I wore out the engine in a saw. I use synthetic mix oil though. I run saws until they fall apart. The cases and screw holes stripping out, etc.
I bought a half dozen 200T top handles back when Stihl quit making them and I'm still running 5 of them. I keep two on...
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