Canola oil for bar oil ??

I liked the idea of using Canola oil for bar oil so today I went to Walmart and checked it out. They had 48oz bottles for $2.30 but the stuff they were selling looked to have almost no viscosity. I tipped the bottle up and down and the air bubble went right through it, looked like 5~10w motor oil. Well I got cold feet and went over to TSC and bought a gallon of their $6 bar oil instead, this stuff is more like 30w motor oil.

Is this typical for Canola oil to be really low viscosity or is it just the Walmart brand ? And if it is all low viscosity does it pump OK in warm weather ?

Thanks

Tim

Theres no tackifier in canola. It won't stick to your rails well. Depends on where and how often you cut that would make any difference. Cutting holes in the ice for fishin?

or wood used for smokin and grillin?

or deep frying fish.

yooper said:

or deep frying fish.

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:hmm3grin2orange:

not covinced about Canola oil

If you have to have bio-oil, probably better to buy a gallon the right
viscosity with tackifiers already mixed in.
I tried Canola for cooking oil one time, it goes rancid sitting on the shelf
faster than soybean vegetable oil.

Part of my work takes me into watersheds. While working there I use Stihl Bio Plus which is their canola oil formulated with tacifiers. I find that straight canola does not lubricate the chain as well as I like. However, I now dilute Bio Plus down to about 50% with canola oil from Costco and that seems to work just fine.

CGC4200 said:

If you have to have bio-oil, probably better to buy a gallon the right
viscosity with tackifiers already mixed in.
I tried Canola for cooking oil one time, it goes rancid sitting on the shelf
faster than soybean vegetable oil.

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It makes great bear bait after it has gone rancid. just pour it on old bread.

bear bait

There are no known bears within 200 miles. A bait pile like that here
would draw raccoons, cats, possums, other folks dogs & other varmints.
You can't even leave a garbage bag out overnight, the next day, it will
be scattered far & wide and be a PITA to pick up again.

That ain't that bears first picnic.

alderman said:

That ain't that bears first picnic.

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lol..no its not. he visits the restraunt frequently close to where I live.

I use Canola, any other cheap cooking oil, and cheap bar oil. Whatever is the cheapest is what I tend to use. Often I end up mixing it with bar oil, but run it straight as well. Saws oil great and I don't have any issues with it sticking. My 064 wears a 114 driver bar and my 660BB wears a 105 driver bar. Oils both just fine and sticks plenty. All stock oilers too.

tmessenger said:

I liked the idea of using Canola oil for bar oil so today I went to Walmart and checked it out. They had 48oz bottles for $2.30 but the stuff they were selling looked to have almost no viscosity.

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That's about half the price we can get it for here in Oz.

I don't use it in the saw but I do use it in the auxiliary oiler in my CS mills but I add the oil to the chain on the cutting side of the bar nose so it does not get flung off the bar as it goes around the nose.

I don't know about canola oil, but dang thats a fat arse bear!

canola

5 qt,s of canola from cosco is 6 or 7$,i have put 100 tanks of it in my 192t.it looks like new.maybe 50 to 60 tanks of if in my 044. it seems good to me. kenny

Anthony_Va. said:

I don't know about canola oil, but dang thats a fat arse bear!

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That would "snackey". Some folks apparently like that.

Justsaws said:

That would "snackey". Some folks apparently like that.

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yep that there is a snackey bear!!!