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[Rune]

haha, ok thanks that'd be great.

[mendiplogs]

Hi Jon I'm delighted with my saw run 18"/25" top top saw. Was telling Rune to take his back and talk to dealer

 

Hi mate sorry mate i mine RUNE thanks Jon

[Rune]

hey, thanks yeah think I will pop in tomorrow.. real shame I love the saw apart from that, it looks awful and just makes me worried about the casting generally.

[NFG]

as long as the insides are clean you should be good to go, rough cast cooling fins surely just means you have extra surface area for cooling

 

Beat me to it, although I tend to agree, it does seem a tad rough

 

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[Rune]

as I said, it's clearly a casting defect and if the surface on the outside is why would it be any better on the inside?

 

just got back from the dealer, who agreed it doesn't look right and said it looks corroded (great right on a brand new top end saw) and took some photos to send the rep and said he'd get back to me soon, and to keep using the saw in the meantime and said hopefully it'll blow up... hm

[wyk]

It would be better on the inside because the insides are machined. Having said that, I have seen some woeful castings by Stihl. Hook it up to a compression gauge. I am curious to see what it blows.

[Rune]

some of the inside is machined, the ports aren't.. anyway as I said it's a top end pro saw and it should be much better than this and hopefully they'll replace it with out any fuss, the crap casting aside the saw is great and I've never had a bad experience with stihl so far so fingers crossed for a good service..

[urbandekay]

as long as the insides are clean you should be good to go, rough cast cooling fins surely just means you have extra surface area for cooling

 

And more surface for dirt to stick to

[Rune]

yeah I thought that too about dirt.. the guy at the dealer agreed it wasn't good anyway so I think it'll all turn out ok in the end..

[mendiplogs]

yeah I thought that too about dirt.. the guy at the dealer agreed it wasn't good anyway so I think it'll all turn out ok in the end..

 

HI RUNE stihl will give you a new one mate thanks jon