Hank
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What a bastard!!
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Agreed! But thanks for the help guys, appreciate it. Incidentally, what's the best way to get oil and petrol out of each tank? Each is about half full. Just pour it out into something?!
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I was going to go through the rigmarole of checking carb settings and running a compression test but then I thought, what's the point? It was described as "Starts and runs as it should. Stripped, Cleaned and Serviced, Ready for work" on eBay and that isn't the case so it's going back. In the seller's defence he does have good feedback, all from Stihl products. Annoying but oh well. There's definitely a part of me that wants to get to the bottom of it but I'd rather get the money back. A shame as when it did work it felt great!
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Update: it seems that this only happens once it's hot and being used at full throttle. I got it running again and kept it from stalling by keeping the revs high but once I put it to work it died within about five minutes of use.
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So a few days ago I bought a used 026 off eBay (thanks in part to the help on here) and got around to using it for the first time today. After using it fine for about half an hour it's now having trouble starting. It started happening when I was putting it down and letting it idle for 15-30 seconds, it'd cut out/stall. Then it wouldn't start at all. Now it'll start and idle when it's on "warm start" but once I blip the throttle and the master control goes to run it dies. Hoping I haven't been sold a dud Any help appreciated!
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Yeah. Well 026. Looks to be in good nick (I hope anyway). Got it for £240 with free shipping.
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Thanks Bill! Just snapped one up. Cheers.
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Hello there. New user here, hopefully someone can help me out. I'm looking to get a used Stihl MS260. What would be a reasonable price to pay? There's plenty on eBay but I'm not sure what the average used price is. I suppose that's also a bit of a "how long's a piece of string" question, but a ballpark figure would help. Thanks a lot. EDIT: Or a 346xp!
