Is your chain oil sticky??

[peatff]

I'm using some chain oil from Aztec oils at the moment and it not just sticky it's stringy.

[GarethM]

Been using Gator 30 for a while, pretty thick and does the job. Just don't get it touch your face with your glove, whatever the additive causes spots.

[pleasant]

1 minute ago, GarethM said:

Been using Gator 30 for a while, pretty thick and does the job. Just don't get it touch your face with your glove, whatever the additive causes spots.

Best you take your gloves off before you have a number one......that would take some explaining to the missus 😄

[GarethM]

Cheaper than those nobbly condoms 😉

[Dan Maynard]

1 hour ago, GarethM said:

Been using Gator 30 for a while, pretty thick and does the job. Just don't get it touch your face with your glove, whatever the additive causes spots.

That turns to mist around you as you cut, I'd find breathing some of that in a bit worrying.

[GarethM]

It's just vaping without the nicotine 🙂.

 

It shouldn't really become too airborne, and which are you going to be more bothered about, the mineral oil based chain oil getting soaked into the wood shavings, the two stroke exhaust or the tree falling on you ?.

Edited September 29, 2022 by GarethM

[john87]

I would not be using that biodegradeable shit. how to wreck your saw... If you look at the makers blurb below they say as much themselves...

 

Not only that, but ECHO say that;

" Vegetable based chain oil quickly turns to resin and adheres to oil pump, chain, guide bar, clutch needle bearing and clutch assembly. It causes malfunctions and shortens the products life"

and that you are to "flush out" the system with mineral oil if you ever use vegetable based chain oil..

john..

Edited September 29, 2022 by john87

[peatff]

10 hours ago, john87 said:

I would not be using that biodegradable shit. how to wreck your saw... If you look at the makers blurb below they say as much themselves...

 

If you leave it in a cold garage it separates in the container, ours did anyway and it wasn't cheap stuff.

[pleasant]

13 minutes ago, peatff said:

 

If you leave it in a cold garage it separates in the container, ours did anyway and it wasn't cheap stuff.

We kept getting asked to keep the Stihl bio chain oil from our more domestic 'enviro green friendly' customers despite our warnings as to the fact it is crap for your saw.

 

So we relented, and the weekend warriors purchased....used their saw to cut up a few logs for that winters wood burner and put it away until the following year......then had all the saws back in for flushing out and re-filled with 'proper' chain oil coz they were all 'gummed up'

 

...actually, thinking about it I should really sell a load more coz it was a good earner for us having to clean those saws out. 👍

[Stere]

Had an oil pump gum up with regular mineral oil also.