Ebay madness!

[Stubby]

I doubt very much that Stihl would sell off any obsolete tooling

 

Ok . Its not unheard of though . Royal Enfield 350 bullet for an example ....

[agg221]

No problem buying a copy if it's described as such. This wasn't. How are you going to get spares? Does it really operate to the same standards as a Stihl? Not something I'd be happy to have spent £510 on, then discover it's not a real Stihl.

 

Oddly enough, spares are no problem as all the parts are made by Hutzl, except possibly the badges as they don't supply these via ebay.

 

The problem is that, as you suggest, it doesn't operate to the same standards as Stihl. It's the quality of the mechanical parts which has previously let them down (think about the various comments on 'cheap chinese pistons').

 

There is a possibly significant trend though. For the past few years, Hutzl were the supplier of cheap, unbranded parts. Progressively they have started putting their brand name to things and you don't generally do that unless you believe you can generate a good enough reputation that people will buy your parts, rather than seek to avoid them! This suggests a rise in quality may be underway.

 

The reason I think this would be interesting (and it would follow the trend in some other sectors for the rapidly increasing quality of manufacturing in China) is that with Stihl's current approach, the difficulties in obtaining Makita/Dolmar and the less than perfect reputation of Husky for reliability, combined with not exactly being a lower cost option, there may be a gap in the market for a decent, solid, dependable saw that doesn't set the world on fire but does what it says on the box. I wonder whether in 5yrs time Arbtalk will have Husky vs. Hutzl threads....?

 

Alec

Edited July 27, 2013 by agg221

[openspaceman]

Ok . Its not unheard of though . Royal Enfield 350 bullet for an example ....

 

I'm told told the 800Watt 2t gensets are made on old yamaha tools.

 

BTW I wish they had done the 250 super 5 rather than Bullet.

[Stubby]

I wish they had done the 700 twin Constellation or better still the 750 Interceptor ....

[treequip]

Ok . Its not unheard of though . Royal Enfield 350 bullet for an example ....

 

You are getting confused, the Enfields (and many others) were originally made under licence. Now Enfields are out of business and the licence is expired anyone is free to make the obsolete.

 

Stihl however are still in business no licence exists and they have a name to protect, chances of them flogging off old tooling? Next to none IMO

[Eddy_t]

No problem buying a copy if it's described as such. This wasn't. How are you going to get spares? Does it really operate to the same standards as a Stihl? Not something I'd be happy to have spent £510 on, then discover it's not a real Stihl.

 

You're talking about standards 50 years ago, I'm sure even modern china can match that

 

 

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