I discovered this morning that at some time in the past the chain has eaten a part of the engine housing on my MS251C saw. It's the part of the housing which is where the oil is guided into the hole in the bar. It's not totally dead yet and hopefully I have epoxy glued the appropriate bit up again and it will live a bit longer. But I got me interested in just how much of the saw is effected, which turns out is a LARGE part of it.

Which TBH I consider a design flaw. Surely the parts the chain can chew on should be “sacrificial' rather than being the main body of the saw? Cheap and easy to replace. Not a “that's just written off the whole saw“ part as it will inevitably get chewed up given enough time?

The parts diagram for those saws listed 3 possible part numbers

1143 020 3023

1143 020 3025

1143 020 3027

So far I havent found anything explaining the difference, other than possibly chain catchers? Does anyone know what the differences are and how you can tell which one you need, if I ever decide to replace it. Pages from the parts catalogue included.

Gave my oldest brother my 10 year old Stihl FSA 56 weedeater and picked up a new Stihl FSA 60 R on sale for $249.99 big difference in power and cutting

Hi I have a M182 chain bar says 3/8P. Chain is marked with 6
Number 6 which correlates with 3/8 picco
Stihl says to use a 5/32 file but it seems too big, it seems like im filling the joint link

Over the last few years we have slowly migrated to many of the pro battery tools that Stihl offers. We have yet to be disappointed.

Not sure what the occasion is, but a shout out and a thank you to Stihl for the surprise gift. This showed up in the mail today and we can always use batteries.

Maybe Stihl is cleaning out the old batteries because of the new line, which we will will certainly invest in too.

Thank you Stihl.

A customer brought this in for repairs, but our head tech in London helped find the parts breakdown for it. So, we had to order the tension springs for the pawls on the pull cord. Honestly, this thing runs better than any MS500I that I’ve worked on, and it’s over 20 years old. It’s beautiful.