Guide Bar Maintenance; Transportation And Storage; Troubleshooting - GreenWorks G40PSF Bedienungshandbuch

Replace the chain if:
• The length of the cutting edges is less than 5 mm.
• There is too much space between the drive links
and the rivets.
• The cut speed is slow
• Sharpening the chain many times but it does not
increase the cutting speed. The chain is worn.
5.4

GUIDE BAR MAINTENANCE

Figure 19-20.
NOTE
Make sure that it is turned over periodically to keep
symmetrical wear on the bar.
1. Lubricate the bearings on the nose sprocket (if
present) with the syringe (not included).
2. Clean the bar groove with the scraping hook (not
included).
3. Clean the lubrication holes.
4. Remove burr from the edges and level the cutters
with a flat file.
Replace the bar if:
• the groove is not fit with the height of the drive links
(which must never touch the bottom).
• the inside of the guide bar is worn and make the
chain lean to one side.
6 TRANSPORTATION AND
STORAGE
Before you move the machine, always
• Remove the battery pack from the machine.
• Keep hands clear of the lock-out button.
• Put the scabbard on the guide bar and the chain.
Before you put the machine into storage, always
• Remove all residual oil from the machine.
• Remove the battery pack from the machine.
• Clean all unwanted material from the machine.
• Make sure that the storage area is
• Not available to children.
• Away from agents which can cause corrosion,
such as garden chemicals and de-icing salts.
7

TROUBLESHOOTING

Problem Possible cause Solution
The machine
The poles are
does not start
not assembled
correctly.
English
Problem
The bar and
chain gets hot
and smokes.
The bar and
chain gets too
hot and can not
cut.
The motor runs,
but the chain
does not cut cor-
rectly, or the mo-
tor stops after
around 3 sec-
onds.
Assemble the
poles according
to the instruc-
tions.
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Possible cause Solution
1. Push and
hold the
lock-out but-
ton
The lock-out 2. While you
button and trig- hold the
ger are not de- lock-out but-
pressed at the ton, pull the
same time. trigger.
3. Release the
lock-out but-
ton to start
the machine.
Oil tank is emp- Fill the oil tank.
ty.
Refer to the
manual to re-
The discharge
move the bar
port is blocked.
and clean out
the debris.
1. Clean the oil
tank.
Inlet opening of
2. Fill with
inner oil tank is
clean bar
blocked.
and chain lu-
bricant.
The sprocket is 1. Clean the
stuck and clog- sprocket.
ged with debris.
2. Fill with
clean bar
and chain lu-
bricant.
Refer to Adjust
The chain ten-
the Chain Ten-
sion is too tight
sion in the man-
or too loose.
ual.
Sharpen or re-
The chain is dull
place the chain.
Refer to Re-
The chain is put place the Bar
on backwards. and Chain in this
manual.
1. Release the
When you use
trigger.
the machine un-
der load, it
2. Start the ma-
stops.
chine again.
Lubricate the
The chain is not chain to de-
lubricated. crease the fric-
tion.
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