Free porn and an oil question

[Al.]

Just received a 5 litre chain oil from Skyland, cheers guys, and inside was some free porn:

Chainsaw porn. Should make tonights shift go quicker, dreaming of all the toys.....

 

Any the reason I bought some bar oil, was that I'm in the middle of milling this little lot:

and I'd bought some bar oil from the local garden centre, a 5 litre of stihl, which I opened. It seemed very runny, almost watery, and smelt a bit funny, but I figured this was just how stihl make their oil. Anyway, as the milling is going on, it seems to be getting harder, each cut starts fine (I always manually add a bit of oil to the bar between each cut, figuring that a 36 inch bar on a 395 could do with all the help it can get), but then about 9 inches in, it really drags, and I start to see a few sparks flying out, to which I thought "bugger", but put it down to a nail, having hit a couple earlier on. Odd thing was that the teeth were still fine. Finished up for the day, and was having a good look at the bar, and the links had ground quite a deep grove into the bar, so I'm guessing that the oil was not doing anything, and the sparks were the bar being worn away by the chain.

Having a look at the unused oil, still in the container, and it seemed to have bits in it:

Is this normal? Do I have to up the flow rate with stihl oil, or is this a duff batch?

 

Cheers, Al.

[Big Beech]

out of date? does it go off?

[Pat Ferrett]

A mate bought 5 litres of stihl chain oil off eBay last week and it to was runny, according to the seller its normal.

As for the bits I aint got a clue

[Eddy_t]

The husky catalogue is crap this year, badly written and the pics are the wrong saws (365 and T435 are the examples off the top of my head), just bin it!

 

As for the oil, stihl oil is watery, but yours looks like dirty water

 

 

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Edited July 3, 2013 by Eddy_t

[Copford sawmill sussex]

We don't use stihl oil. We're sawing up slabs etc all day and use cooking oil, £20 for 5l massive tub, only draw back is you crave chips all day

[Rich2484]

Absolutly, positively, unbealeavably the most single disappointing thread title ever on arbtalk...........

[Copford sawmill sussex]

Lol. .

[Treegeek]

Is was expecting sluts and baby oil ???

[Al.]

I was toying with "really boring question about oil" but felt I needed to bring in the punters....

[agg221]

Do I have to up the flow rate with stihl oil, or is this a duff batch?

 

Cheers, Al.

 

You commented that you are adding extra oil to the bar, but the above suggests you haven't turned the oiler up full?

 

If not, I suggest you do so, regardless of the oil you are using. This is pretty much standard practice when running any saw with its max. bar length and particularly important when milling wide boards which are using a lot of the bar length.

 

Alec