Why the 200T chain brake is rubbish.

Well following on from my other thread which I'm hoping someone will comment on in regards to the fit for use H&S issue(no offence to all other posters much appreciated, well to most anyway:sneaky2:)anyway.....

Stihl obviously fiddled about with the chain brake for some reason, not that I think its because they want more sales of parts or anything:sneaky2: It obviously needed to be made a bit lighter or something!

So the first pic is from a MS200T and the second pic from an 020T which is God knows how old and has seen a fair bit of battle damage.

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As you can see the plastic is a lot thicker on the 020T handle, therefore it doesnt break.

The 200T handle was a replacement about 18 months ago but it broke within a week! So its staying like that.

The 020T handle has been around for yonks and just gets swapped over when I buy a new saw and the original one breaks.

Anyone hopefully at least one person out there has found this interesting, and for the rest of you I'll start a something V something thread to keep you entertained.

Hmmm actually I think I'll start a poll.

So will a 020 handle fit a ms200?????????

Yup, straight swap iirc.

I dont think you have to change any of the internal bits.

the 020t will fit strait onto the ms200 , most of the reason that the chain break handle is different on the ms200t is due to the complaints that on the old 020t the side casing buckled . so the side casing was re developed along with the chainbreak handle - as always they took the good bits off and replaced them with what can only be classed as crap !!!

as for your other question regarding weather or not your chain break handle in its current condition its sadly not . this is because the handle is designed and intended to be secured at both ends and this is how when put through the euro testing it passed its liscencing for it to go on sale . its a bit like having a chain catcher thats bent or already been dammaged by a chain comming off it must be repalced before further use .

Didnt know that!

Good bit of info cheers.

no worries , i only found out by asking the tec department at stihl because i was just as fed up with the chain breaks as you , do you clip your saw strop to the chain break when your not using the saw or to carry it ?? the tec's also told me that this was one of the fastest ways to weeken the chain break handle

drill a hole in the c/break & put a cable ty thru the hole & then thru the saw body does just fine

no worries , i only found out by asking the tec department at stihl because i was just as fed up with the chain breaks as you , do you clip your saw strop to the chain break when your not using the saw or to carry it ?? the tec's also told me that this was one of the fastest ways to weeken the chain break handle

That's just a get out clause since it didn't happen with the old style handle

drill a hole in the c/break & put a cable ty thru the hole & then thru the saw body does just fine

Surely you could get some duct tape on there ti do a good bodge job.

i had exactly the same damage on one of our 200T's at work, the plastic broke off in exactly the same place as the one in your first pic... thought it was just me?!

I would expect replace mine 3 times a year.... not a problem though can replace it in 15 mins on the 338 the spark plug and exhaust covers break at the same rate!!,although easy to fix they still break so apart from sticking with the 200t i dont think there is any option and although the anti vibes are crp i know what i would rather have up a tree!