Chain oil

[davey_b]

I used to make bio diesel so have filtered veg oil so will use some of that.

 

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[likeitorlumpit]

Heard people say you can use engine oil. OK or a no no?

 

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No no no

[Daniël Bos]

I switched from stihl synthetic to co-op rapeseed.

The veg oil I use is much thinner, so I set the oiler to max, but only a little over £1/l so no prob. It works much better in the smaller stihl saws (that normally oil inadequately) and just fine in the husky's.

No gumming up at all, not even when the temp was -17 in the morning.

When you overfill and spill it all down your saw, dripping fingers etc, you can just lick it off.

 

It did do strange things when mixed with the stihl stuff though, the two combined became very gloopy and snot-like, but after the stihl stuff cleared completely it's been super. Highly recommended.

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

Some chainsaw manuals mention using EP90 but when good bio chain oil around pointless using engine oil which causes such damage to the landscape working in.

[openspaceman]

I switched from stihl synthetic to co-op rapeseed.

The veg oil I use is much thinner, so I set the oiler to max, but only a little over £1/l so no prob. It works much better in the smaller stihl saws (that normally oil inadequately) and just fine in the husky's.

No gumming up at all, not even when the temp was -17 in the morning.

 

I used straight OSR from the grocers from about 1990 till I packed up proper work a few years back. No problems except maybe a perceptible increase in bar wear. A chap who went to university after cutting for some years did his thesis on veg oils and basically told me to go for the cost saving of ordinary cooking oil.

 

Big problem if you park a saw up with it as it oxidises on the chain and the saw grows green fur.

 

When I started it was common practice to use sump oil and we hated it as much as the arbrex. It is also definitely implicated in scrotal cancer, the first known industrial cancer which was identified in young chimney sweeps, a resurgence occurred in the US and was traced to young mechanics putting oily hands and rags into their pockets. Benzo(a)pyrene is a product of incomplete combustion found in soot, tobacco smoke and sump oil.

[harvey b davison]

standard veg / sunflower cooking oil for me. tesco's finest.

[slasherscot]

veggie oil £1 a litre sure beats £2 a litre for chainoil

[Pedroski]

In my manual, the manufacturer recommends running some NEW (not used) engine oil through the chain oiler if you're going to be leaving the saw sitting for some time after using bio/veg oil. It helps to ensure you don't get residues building up.

[pleasant]

In January I replaced an oil pump on a three month old saw that had been run using old engine oil- all the particles suspended in the old engine oil seized the pump solid. Customer tried to play innocent to try to get it under warranty, but when I produced a sample of what we removed from the chain oil reservoir in a glass jar in front of him, he quickly coughed up the £80 he owed me.

[lowerforest]

I've been advised that if I'm going to put veggie oil through my saws, then I need to turn the oilflow rate up to max, as the sawchain will throw much of the stuff out into the wild blue yonder, due to reduced viscosity. Assuming the veggie-users on here increase oilflow on their saws, does veggie still work out as a more-economical buy?