Chain oil

[Steve999]

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

Teeth look a bit golden, but not blue. (chainsaw not my nashers). Wasn't aware of any smoke though, but I was cutting for hours and the bloody thing was out of oil for ages. Clearly operator error, well I won't be doing that again, one learns from one's mistakes.

 

Yeah Timber Cutter, the Makita oil is damn thick, but it was spitting it out. It's veg oil with some sort of thickener, like gravy I guess. For an electric saw it cut pretTy damn good, the selling point for me was the lower noise, although my neighbours haven't complained yet, I'm conscious of the irritation of the two stroke. Always avoid Sundays since I had some preacher guy down the road telling me it was wrong on the sabbath.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Always avoid Sundays since I had some preacher guy down the road telling me it was wrong on the sabbath.

 

Good on him!!! Not many like him around anymore!!! Sorry, just had a very victorian upbringing; if you made noise, rode your bike, spoke loudly etc etc on a sunday you were given 50 lashings and you were a disgrace to the neighbourhood.

[Hoggin]

Good on him!!! Not many like him around anymore!!! Sorry, just had a very victorian upbringing; if you made noise, rode your bike, spoke loudly etc etc on a sunday you were given 50 lashings and you were a disgrace to the neighbourhood.

 

I rented a house a few years ago on the west coast of Scotland and the landlord was Wee Free. The tenency agreement had a list of things as long as may arm that I couldn't do on a Sunday, from ball games to hanging out the washing.