6thgpSF
Gold Member
It was raining today so I decided to replace the pull rope and do a real good cleaning as I've never had the cover off before.After cleaning the flywheel for a min. or two I noticed one of the fins on the flywheel was missing.What the hey I say?I bought this saw new in 06 and as stated have never tore into it before.It clearly looked to have been broke off and no pieces were found in the cover and the break wasn't new.So I take the flywheel off and take it where I bought it to show them.Two guys looked at it and swore Sthil would never let something like this get past quality control,I told them I sure and heck didn't do it and they said even if Sthil did do it that they would'nt even look at it because the warrantry had expired.I said what the heck does that matter if it came out of the factory like that.Well needless to say my opinion of Sthil went down about 90pts. out of 100.No more Sthil for me...russ