waste engine oil on chain

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

That's right, the first identified industrial cancer was in boys used for chimney sweeping and it made a re occurence in young motor mechanics, it seems their sump oil covered overalls were causing scrotal cancers. It's the products of incomplete combustion such as the carcinogen benzo-a-pyrene that cause the problem.

 

In 1976 we were forced to use used sump oil and your clothes stank of it and were covered in arbrex thanks to the old skinflint that ran BCR. Luckily I only survived a few months.

 

I doubt the lubricity is much of an issue though increased acidity could be.

 

its viscosity needs to be high for chain use too, or it flings off the tip and is about as usefull as a wet paper bag in a rainstorm, besides the ecological disaster that old engine oil would pose:thumbdown:

[mendiplogs]

why buy a perfectly good piece of kit and put crap oil in it................cant get me head round that.

 

Oh and using used engine oil aint very enviromently friendly is it.

 

HI MATE CHAIN OIL IS CHEAP AS CHAIN OIL CHEAPER THEN A NEW OIL PUMP NOW WITH STIHL PARTS YOU HAVE PICK PARTS UP THERES A HRS GONE :001_rolleyes:JON SO THAT CHEAP OLD OIL NOT CHEAP JON

[amfell]

Don't do it ,

 

waste oil contains small metal particles that have worn off the inside of the engine , these will act like grinding paste that will in a short time cause wear in your Oil Pump, Guide Bar & Chain and as others have said carcinogenic, environmentally unfriendly, makes a black mess of your saw

[Johny Walker]

to be honest what do you think we used before chain oil came along ,

[GardenKit]

to be honest what do you think we used before chain oil came along ,

And do you remember what a mess it was?

[Johny Walker]

And do you remember what a mess it was?

 

i sure do ,haha,it worked ,never had a prob wi it nacky pumps up

[The Worker]

the next lot of WMO I will be getting will be centrefued

[The Worker]

That's right, the first identified industrial cancer was in boys used for chimney sweeping and it made a re occurence in young motor mechanics, it seems their sump oil covered overalls were causing scrotal cancers. It's the products of incomplete combustion such as the carcinogen benzo-a-pyrene that cause the problem.

 

In 1976 we were forced to use used sump oil and your clothes stank of it and were covered in arbrex thanks to the old skinflint that ran BCR. Luckily I only survived a few months.

 

I doubt the lubricity is much of an issue though increased acidity could be.

Wow i did not know this

I do a lot of work with waste engine oil and it dose soak through your boiler suite into your skin

[geoff]

Waste engine oil is bad stuff, for you & the environment, & should be disposed of in the correct way.

Why would you even consider using it?

[hedgesparrow]

had a old boy god rest who used old engine oil in his saws it stank, the bar and chain did not last long. and as other posts all its goodness has gone its got metal in it its thin unlike proper chain oil which is sticky so does what it should sticks to bar and chain to lubricate. will never use anything else other than proper chain oil. its counter productive cost more in the end