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It’s gonna get controversial round these parts! 😳😳😳 Well hello everyone, long time no post!! Ok, so I just bought myself another little chainsaw, a brand new 2014 model German made Makita EA3500. 😃 The thing’s a little Bobby dazzler and almost feels like a keychain ornament compared to my bigger saws. I was honestly expecting it to have the same form factor as my DCS4301s but this thing is dinky, I love it! 😻 Its never going to see a big log as I’ve got other guys in the collection for that stuff, this is going to be a branch remover, and trimming saw, where the heavier stuff is just too much to muscle about. Anyway, enough digressions….. Being the wrong side of 50 now, I’ve become a bit of a perfectionist, and probably overthink a lot of stuff. In particular how to break in new engines, be they a car, motorcycle, or garden machinery….. Now I can’t even remember what I’d did with my other saws, it’s so long since I bought a new one, and I think I’m normally just too excited and eager to go and use the thing to make a ‘run in plan’, but this time I want to get it right. I’m sure I’ll get varying opinions and will have to weigh up the arguments for and against various ‘techniques’, but I’d really like to know what you guys (the professionals) do and advise I do. I’m almost tempted never to add fluids and just leave it on the desk as an ornament it’s so cute and pretty 🥰🙂😄…but the wife will threaten to yeet it in the bin if I push my luck lol 😂 Let it rip guys…in 3….2…..1 😁😁😁
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Break in last night to my work New Forest Garden Machinery in Totton Hampshire. Thieving scum bags peeled back the roof to gain access at 3 am this morning. We think around 10 Stihl chainsaws were stolen. all locked up but the gits were in and out in 3 minutes. We are only a small family run company and things like this really set you back. if offered anything brand new in the hampshire/dorset/wilts area ring the police please. Just sorting through CCTV and serial numbers now so will post up images soon.
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I want to know what is the best way to deal with a chainsaw that is straight out of the box. 1. Should it be tuned straight away or wait till its been run-in for approx 20 hours? 2. Should a little extra oil be added to the fuel than normal, to aid in the run-in process? Any other suggestions? I've read others talk and some say its best to go easy and other say you should race the engine from new. I would go easy, but that is not my question for now.
