Flocks

Omg I want one! 😍

He wouldn't admit that he'd done that, but you might be right and he is certainly not an experienced saw user, and lord only knows who else has had their hands on it!

Thanks everyone for your response! Your right the whole saw was in desperate need of some tlc! :-/ Ray, I was just going by what the owner told me the saw was, I know very little about stihl saws. I'll get it on the bench tomorrow and have a bit more of a poke around but I suspect that he won't want to spend too much on it so it might just end up on the parts shelf!

I asked him if it had been left ticking over with the brake on for a long time, and he says no he always just switched it off if he wasn't using it for more than a minute! There doesn't seem to be any play at all in the shaft strangely! Am I correct in thinking it would be a complete strip to change that bit of the case and are they easy to find new or used? Many thanks

Thanks for your quick reply's. Yeah I'm pretty certain it's melting, I did give it a good poke with a screwdriver and it's pretty hard stuff and snaps like plastic.

Hi all, Been a long time lurker and this is my first post. Hope it's in the right place! A friend of mine dropped his 026 off to me in box in bits for me to "have a look at". He told me that the last time he used it there was a bit of smoke coming out of it, when I took it out of the box I was taken by surprise, it appears to be melting behind the clutch. I've not seen this before, Do u have any idea what the cause could be and what to do to fix it? Many thanks in advance!