Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw?

   / Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw? #11  
when I was doing repair work for the public, I would give the saw or mower or what ever I was working on a good cleaning when the repair was done. sometimes the customer would ask what was wrong and I would tell them "oh I just cleaned it up" :)

Same here, when I was repairing/rebuilding mechanics' air tools. I nearly always tore them all the way down and cleaned them really good in my Varsol parts cleaner.

Huh? I thought I could delete a thread in a short time. I just realize there is a chainsaw forum to stick this in so I was going to delete and repost there.

No problem. I moved the thread over here to the Chainsaw forum.
 
   / Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw? #12  
Wait a minute......chainsaw require cleaning ?? Really ? 50 years and the most I've ever done to one is scratch the oily mess out of the clutch cover when changing a chain.


Learn stuff every day, for sure. I'll take it by the place I've never had my truck detailed at and see what they charge......ahahahaaaaa
 
   / Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw? #13  
There is a market for everything...

Just like people paying to have their car washed... something I can't imagine doing yet the detail place near the hospital often backs up traffic with so many vying to have their car detailed...

Or those paying to have their 20 x 30 lawn cut...

I'm always glad there are those that choose to pay others... keeps the economy going.
 
   / Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw? #14  
Wait a minute......chainsaw require cleaning ?? Really ? 50 years and the most I've ever done to one is scratch the oily mess out of the clutch cover when changing a chain.


Learn stuff every day, for sure. I'll take it by the place I've never had my truck detailed at and see what they charge......ahahahaaaaa
To a point, chainsaws do require cleaning. Just like you scratch (clean) the oily mess out of the clutch cover). And the air filters require cleaning or changing from time to time.

It's just that some people like to keep their equipment looking good as well as functioning good. No different than some people who polish their tractors.

"To each, their own" What ever makes you happy.
 
   / Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw? #15  
I clean my own, sharpen the chains, rotate the bar, muck out all the oily crud, etc, etc.

However, I have seen things just a weird. Saw a guy bring in his rotary cutter to the dealer. Remove the bailing twine wrapped up in the blade and grease the PTO shaft. And this fellow lived 30 miles from the dealer.
 
   / Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw? #16  
To a point, chainsaws do require cleaning. Just like you scratch (clean) the oily mess out of the clutch cover). And the air filters require cleaning or changing from time to time.

It's just that some people like to keep their equipment looking good as well as functioning good. No different than some people who polish their tractors.

"To each, their own" What ever makes you happy.

The local saw shop has been telling people to use oven cleaner on the fins of their newer saws... 2 of my coworkers blew up their 550XP's from overheating because fir pitch built up in the fins.
 
   / Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw? #17  
The local saw shop has been telling people to use oven cleaner on the fins of their newer saws... 2 of my coworkers blew up their 550XP's from overheating because fir pitch built up in the fins.
Yes, I knew the "fins" required cleaning also, but couldn't think of the proper word for them at the time of my post. :thumbsup:

The same goes for the mesh or screening on the cover of the rope pulley starter.
 
   / Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw? #18  
It's amazing to me that I sharpen my saw several times a day when cutting, but I have neighbors who cut with a dull chain for ages and then buy a new one.
 
   / Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw? #19  
I had two very weird things happen in all my years of using chain saws.

The first one was after using my chainsaw for a while, I set it down in a couple of inches of snow. After taking a break, I pulled and pulled on the starter cord and could not restart the saw. When I went to remove the spark plug to see if it was fouled, I discovered the porcelain on the plug was cracked allowing it to short out. The cold snow against the hot plug had cracked the porcelain.

Number two was when when cutting a couple of diseased Red Pine trees down, a chunk of hard pine pitch had somehow fallen on the hot muffler just as I had shut the saw down. The saw was equipped with spark arrester screen in the muffler for forest service work and the pine pitch had melted and clogged that screen. I couldn't get the saw to run right at all until I discovered the problem.
 
   / Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw? #20  
Nope. I take care of my saws, there isn't a whole lot to it.. Some people don't have time and or don't like to mess with 2 cycle engines and it doesn't cost a whole lot for a shop to it so I understand they just need the thing to run and if it doesn't they can make a phone call and blame some one else if it doesn't..:laughing:

"doesn't cost a whole lot for a shop to do it"
Really ????
Small engine shop rate was $95 last time I checked, and that was 2 years ago.
 

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