Used vegetable oil for bar oil?

[nemcc]

Is it a bad idea or not? It's free after all from a pub

[Guest Gimlet]

I wouldn't use it as a lubricant on a chainsaw bar or anything else. But I do use it for lighting brush fires when doing scrub clearance etc. It doesn't pollute the ground like diesel.

[peds]

There are blogs all over the Internet of people who do this, and they claim to never have problems. 

 

Having spent too many hours of my life cleaning the congealed and almost petrified grease from the insides and out of commercial deep fat fryers, it is absolutely not something I would ever consider doing.

 

Keep in mind that by the time it has been used for a few nights in a restaurant, it isn't just vegetable oil, it's an amalgamation in various concentration of chicken fat, lard, beef fat, dairy fat, fish grease, the solids in suspension of various starches used in batters and breadcrumbs... and any number of other things.

[Woodworks]

2 hours ago, peds said:

There are blogs all over the Internet of people who do this, and they claim to never have problems. 

 

Having spent too many hours of my life cleaning the congealed and almost petrified grease from the insides and out of commercial deep fat fryers, it is absolutely not something I would ever consider doing.

 

Keep in mind that by the time it has been used for a few nights in a restaurant, it isn't just vegetable oil, it's an amalgamation in various concentration of chicken fat, lard, beef fat, dairy fat, fish grease, the solids in suspension of various starches used in batters and breadcrumbs... and any number of other things.

I do use bio chain oil (mainly rapeseed oil) from time to time but it does make a mess thats hard to clean off. Smell like a chip-shop at the end of the day though which is a bonus haha

[spudulike]

Any oil that dries over time shouldn't be used in a chainsaw. Seen it too many times before and after trying all types of cleaner and resorting to craft knives to carve it off, now I just leave it in place and if a customer wants to wreck his saws then that is fine by me!!!

[openspaceman]

55 minutes ago, spudulike said:

Any oil that dries over time shouldn't be used in a chainsaw. Seen it too many times before and after trying all types of cleaner and resorting to craft knives to carve it off, now I just leave it in place and if a customer wants to wreck his saws then that is fine by me!!!

I find it will come off most parts with a soak in diesel and scraping but the mixture of sawdust and OSR on the fins that has baked on is a recipe for  a seizure, I have resorted to a dremel with carbide burr to clean the fins but wish for a sand blaster.

 

It wouldn't stop me using OSR if I were using saws everyday but they do need regular cleaning and now I rarely used more than a tank a week and some saws sometimes weeks between use  I have reverted to mineral oil.

[doobin]

A steam cleaner is the only way I've found to remove it. Same for gummed oil pumps- fill the tank with very hot water and run the saw.