Chain oil

[Steve999]

Committed a cardinal sin yesterday, I was using a brand new electric chain saw, filled it with oil and 'went to work'. But unlike a two stroke it doesnt want refuelling, so just carried on and on and... Yes it ran out of chain oil without me knowing.

 

So can someone tell me what I should inspect for damage, I've had a look at the sprocket, there's wittiness marks where the chain has been, but no gouging. Chain had stretched a bit, but it was new after all.

 

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks

[slack ma girdle]

If it seams alright, it probably is.

 

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Check ALL the simple things first.

[Stubby]

As Slack says if it seems ok it most likely is . the only other thing to look for is any burring of the guide rails on the bar .

[Steve999]

Thanks Skack and Stubby, yeah it seems ok apart for some play in the links, no blurring on the bar as far as I can tell. Perhaps I should ditch the chain ?

Damn sight easier using a 2 stroke, runs out of fuel, check the oil. Only got the leccy one to stop the neighbours complaining. (It's a Makita 4030 and cuts a buit.)

[Steve999]

Sorry Slack, using an iPad - bloody keyboard!

[Nick B]

Give the chain a soak in oil over night may help if bad if not to bad wire brush and spray with WD40

This will help to keep the links free

[Steve999]

Thanks Nick B

What a helpful site this is!!

[Chris Sheppard]

Damn sight easier using a 2 stroke, runs out of fuel, check the oil.

 

Fill the fuel, fill the oil - every time. The oil tank is designed to pretty much empty at a similar rate to the fuel tank - not filling it up when you refuel is jsut waiting for a disaster at somepoint.

 

Reckon you're chain/bar on leccy one will be fine - if there was no smoke it can't have got that dry!

Edited September 9, 2012 by Chris Sheppard

[agg221]

You sometimes get clogging of the oil pump on a 2-stroke saw, so it stops oiling. The symptoms are smoke from the bar as the residual oil buns off, then the hain teeth go golden followed by blue and eventually the bar rails do the same.

 

If nothing has gone blue then all's fine - fill with oil and carry on.

 

Alec

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Thanks Skack and Stubby, yeah it seems ok apart for some play in the links, no blurring on the bar as far as I can tell. Perhaps I should ditch the chain ?

Damn sight easier using a 2 stroke, runs out of fuel, check the oil. Only got the leccy one to stop the neighbours complaining. (It's a Makita 4030 and cuts a buit.)

 

Yeah, got the Makita myself; the oilers are not good. Mine came with Mak chain oil which was ruddy thick and the pump couldn't handle it - machine went back in for warranty repair; took them ages to prime the pump until they tried thinner oil. Now I use veg oil - much better.