I have a suspicion that my oiler for my chainsaw isnt delivering enough
oil. It does use chain oil, but just not much. Holding the chainsaw over a
piece of newspaper and revving the engine (as suggested in the manual)
doesnt produce any obvious splatters.

Ive turned the adjuster up to max but this doesnt seem to make any
difference. Is it time for a strip down? Its just a cheap Aldi
Gardenline 16€� saw but its perfectly adequate for my needs.

Anything to look out for?

Tim

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On 08/04/2019 09:53, Tim+ wrote:
I have a suspicion that my oiler for my chainsaw isnt delivering enough
oil. It does use chain oil, but just not much. Holding the chainsaw over a
piece of newspaper and revving the engine (as suggested in the manual)
doesnt produce any obvious splatters.

Ive turned the adjuster up to max but this doesnt seem to make any
difference. Is it time for a strip down? Its just a cheap Aldi
Gardenline 16€� saw but its perfectly adequate for my needs.

Anything to look out for?

Tim


Could be a blockage or a stripped plastic gear in the drive. They are
usually available as spares.

On 8 Apr 2019 08:53:41 GMT, Tim+ wrote:

Ive turned the adjuster up to max but this doesnt seem to make any
difference. Is it time for a strip down? Its just a cheap Aldi
Gardenline 16€� saw but its perfectly adequate for my needs.

Anything to look out for?

Have you used biodegradeable chain oil? That gets gummy and clogs the
passageways with air and time, so unless you use the chainsaw regularly, it can
be a problem.

If you use the chainsaw only occasionally and a little, you can add oil
externally with an oil can, or use motorcycle chain lube in a spray can, or
somehow otherwise add lube, and just leave the oiler be...


Thomas Prufer

Thomas Prufer wrote:
On 8 Apr 2019 08:53:41 GMT, Tim+ wrote:

Ive turned the adjuster up to max but this doesnt seem to make any
difference. Is it time for a strip down? Its just a cheap Aldi
Gardenline 16€� saw but its perfectly adequate for my needs.

Anything to look out for?

Have you used biodegradeable chain oil?

Yep

That gets gummy and clogs the
passageways with air and time, so unless you use the chainsaw regularly, it can
be a problem.

Didnt know that. Looks like a strip down is in order.

Tim

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Please don't feed the trolls

newshound wrote:
On 08/04/2019 09:53, Tim+ wrote:
I have a suspicion that my oiler for my chainsaw isnt delivering enough
oil. It does use chain oil, but just not much. Holding the chainsaw over a
piece of newspaper and revving the engine (as suggested in the manual)
doesnt produce any obvious splatters.

Ive turned the adjuster up to max but this doesnt seem to make any
difference. Is it time for a strip down? Its just a cheap Aldi
Gardenline 16€� saw but its perfectly adequate for my needs.

Anything to look out for?

Tim


Could be a blockage or a stripped plastic gear in the drive. They are
usually available as spares.


Hopefully just a blockage. Its not that old or had that much use.

Tim

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Please don't feed the trolls

On 8 Apr 2019 10:11:44 GMT, Tim+ wrote:

Didnt know that. Looks like a strip down is in order.

Can you still get "biodiesel"? Apparently an excellent and cheap
gummy-bar-oil-remover. Chuck the bits in, let sit for a few days, and the
fraction that eats the rubber in yer car seals eats the gummy oil.

You may have to scrape out/ream with wire the passages and bottom of the channel
in the bar, though.


Thomas Prufer

On 08/04/2019 11:06, Thomas Prufer wrote:
On 8 Apr 2019 08:53:41 GMT, Tim+ wrote:

Ive turned the adjuster up to max but this doesnt seem to make any
difference. Is it time for a strip down? Its just a cheap Aldi
Gardenline 16€� saw but its perfectly adequate for my needs.

Anything to look out for?

Have you used biodegradeable chain oil? That gets gummy and clogs the
passageways with air and time, so unless you use the chainsaw regularly, it can
be a problem.

If you use the chainsaw only occasionally and a little, you can add oil
externally with an oil can, or use motorcycle chain lube in a spray can, or
somehow otherwise add lube, and just leave the oiler be...


Thomas Prufer

Both excellent points. I have a couple of cheap sprays of "chain oil"
intended I think mainly for bicycles. These came either from Lidl, TS,
or SF. These would be fine on a chainsaw (possibly not biodegradable, if
you are really green).

One thing you should *not* use them on is a hedge trimmer, they glue the
blades together after being left a while.

DAMHIK.

On 08/04/2019 11:06, Thomas Prufer wrote:
On 8 Apr 2019 08:53:41 GMT, Tim+ wrote:

Ive turned the adjuster up to max but this doesnt seem to make any
difference. Is it time for a strip down? Its just a cheap Aldi
Gardenline 16€� saw but its perfectly adequate for my needs.

Anything to look out for?

Have you used biodegradeable chain oil? That gets gummy and clogs the
passageways with air and time, so unless you use the chainsaw regularly, it can
be a problem.

If you use the chainsaw only occasionally and a little, you can add oil
externally with an oil can, or use motorcycle chain lube in a spray can, or
somehow otherwise add lube, and just leave the oiler be...


Thomas Prufer

Thomas has made good points

Always store the saw after running mineral oil for a tank full if you
are not going to use it till next season. If it has gummed empty the oil
tank and put a cup full of white spirit in overnight but sit the saw on
something absorbent.

One should not run a saw with the chain off as the clutch can unwind on
the overrun but if you go carefully you can do it and observe the oil
being pumped out by the bar mount.

Next place to look is the oil pick up, which is weighted and like the
top of a pepper cellar, small holes to keep debris out but sometimes a
rat's turd of small bits accumulates in the flexible pipe to the pump. I
check this by using compressed air in the pipe, taken off the pump inlet
and with the pick up off.

Last check is the drive to the pump which is often a plastic gear which
might be stripped but also if the saw bogs down and the clutch stalls it
gets hot enough to melt the plastic.

Chances are it is an Einhell saw and if the pump is US not worth fixing.

AJH

On Monday, 8 April 2019 09:53:43 UTC+1, Tim+ wrote:
I have a suspicion that my oiler for my chainsaw isnt delivering enough
oil. It does use chain oil, but just not much. Holding the chainsaw over a
piece of newspaper and revving the engine (as suggested in the manual)
doesnt produce any obvious splatters.

Ive turned the adjuster up to max but this doesnt seem to make any
difference. Is it time for a strip down? Its just a cheap Aldi
Gardenline 16€� saw but its perfectly adequate for my needs.

Anything to look out for?

Wood chips in the oil tank.

Mine has a filter on the oil tank filler to stop this happening