John White
Gold Member
I have a couple of questions about a Sthil 028 which I just acquired. Inside the breather housing there is a small line that appears to come from the fuel tank and exits through the housing outside and it has two small plugs with threads and a slot, stuck in each end plugging it. What is the purpose to this line? When did they stop making the 028? I have a Echo 500VL which has been a great saw for 30 years. My son keeps kidding me and saying I ought to get a Sthil. I keep saying "why". He cuts a enormus amount of fire wood every year. His first saw was a Polan. He said he would actually wear it out in one season. It was still under warranty so he would just take it back and they would give him a new saw. He did this every year for 4 years. Four new Polans. Finally he invested in a Sthil and has used it three years and still not one problem. I was at a flea market the other day and a fellow who runs a pawn shop was there selling some of the items he takes in. He had a Sthil 028 there that looked almost new. The paint hadnt even been worn off the lower bar. He said when it came in the fuel he drained out of it looked like syurp almost. He said that if he took it to a chain saw shop to get the carb rebuilt, he would have another $100 in it and he would never recop his money. So he was selling it "as is". He did squirt gas in the intake and show me that it would start. He wanted $170 for it. I really had no use for another chain saw but some fellow steped up and said he was a professional tree cutting business and used both Sthil and Huskies. He said it was a good buy and he didnt think I could go wrong if I wanted to fool with the carb myself. He said just take it off and remove the plate where the diaphram was and there would be a small screen inside that was so fine that it would not evel look like a screen, just clean it. I did. The saw runs great. Still has original chain. I dont think it has ever even had a file on it. From the numbers on the chailn bar it indicates that it was built in 1991. Of course there is a serial # but I dont know how to tell by that. so now what do I do with another saw.:licking: I went out west last year up in the logging country where I grew up at and took our utv to ride some of the old abandoned logging roads, built some 60 years ago. Back then I remember my dad cutting with the old cross cut saw and I can still remember going to the woods and helping him. (in the middle 50's I remember him getting a old 2 man Mall saw and helping him, what a improvement:laughing So not wanting to get trapped up there with a old snag blown across the road and trapping me in (no one goes up there) I picked a little Polan up at a flea market (like new ) for $50 and took it along with me. My wife said what do you need 3 saws for.:confused2: