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Max Stickland
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Thanks tree_beard sounds like a plan.
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I take your point but am using this saw on a regular basis and at £57/litre was trying to find a suitable cheaper alternative. Used 50ml in a few hours. Maybe I just need to accept that that is the cost for using this saw.
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The Makita DUC101 is a battery mini saw and on less than 50% discharge it used about 50 ml of oil which as previously stated works out very expensive.
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Thanks for that Stere
Gareth M, the Stihl chainsaw oil is to viscous and does not oil the chain (I have tried it) which is why a thinner oil is required and 100ml is supplied with the saw. However, the price is exorbitant
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Stere, not sure that there is a ref in the literature. But both the oil supplied with the mini Stihl and Makita are very low viscosity
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Thank you Pleasant for your erudite reply. I am of course wiser but in somewhat of a quandary as there were multiple suggestions as which oil to use apart from yours.
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Thanks to everyone who contributed to this post. Not sure I am any the wiser, the recommended oil by Makita is ridiculously expensive. Have tried the Stihl chain saw oil which I use on my Huskys but is to thick to oil the chain. Maybe the vegetable oil is my best bet.
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Have just bought a Makita duc101 mini chain saw. Can anyone recommend a suitable chain oil to use with it. Thank you in advance
Chain Oil
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Again, thank you to all those who have replied to this post. I think the problem with using a chain oil such as Stihl Synthplus is that the DUC101 has a 10cm bar and chain speed of 8m/sec whereas all the tools quoted have much faster speeds and can presumably handle a more viscous oil. Thinning down seems the best option.