On Jul 26, 1:41*pm, "Andrew Mawson"
wrote:
"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message

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On Jul 26, 12:18 pm, Jim K wrote:





On Jul 26, 12:00 pm, "ARWadsworth"
wrote:

All they all the same.

Or is there a bod standard oil I can use instead?

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Adam

depends if you're bothered what it gets sprayed on when you're using
the saw..... motor oil is cheap but toxic in general and may spoil
plants etc.
Dedicated "chainsaw oil" is IME usually much more expensive
(gloopier
& "anti-fling" claims) but can be had in "biodegradeable" flavours
for
"sensitive" (garden) areas..

Depending on the saw, some specialised oils can't get out the
reservoir. Use red diesel. It's just to wet the surface the chain runs
on and lubricate the links. 3 in 1 would do. It works on a bike but
picks up grit and other muck and turns into a grinding paste.

Something light enough to run off quickly would be replaced just as
quickly. The most lubricant lubricant is castor bean oil. You can get
badly lurgied to that. But you can get allergies to any oils if you
expose yourself to the crap often enough.

At least with an heavier oil you might be less likely to skin
absorption. You pays yer munee an you takes yer chances.

Red diesel and 3 in 1 woul be useless. You need an oil that sticks to
the chain - slideway oils were what used to be used (designed to cling
to flat bearing surfaces of machine tools), nowadays the pucka
chainsaw oils are biodegradable. I buy genuine Sthil chain saw oil by
te 25 litre drum on ebay. (blindstickinsect iirc).

Nope.

The saw need a lubricant that is all. A bike chain can cope with spray
oil and graphite as it isn't a fast spinner. But it could cope with
just soap and water. I wouldn't recommend that for a saw but it is
widely used in metal fabrication where mills and lathes etc come under
intense pressures and much more friction than a chain saw would.

The reason I suggested diesel is that it was the stuff used in a
timberyard I used to work in. In fact diesel is the prefered lubricant
in quite a few saw types in a timberyard.

I only ever used silly saws at home and they were quite incapable of
using the expensive axle type viscosities supplied by the seller. I
haven't used a chain saw in a decade or more but I doubt much has
changed in them.