I buy it because it is common and decently cheap,but I find myself cleaning the bar rails and oil hole at least 3 times a day if I am cutting much. A few years ago I would only buy the cheapest motor oil Dollar General sold and use for bar oil and never once had a problem with oiling.But even the cheapest 30w non detergent is almost $5/qt now.
Done with red tacky bar oil
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camel2019
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I’m paying $7 a quart for cheap bar oil when it’s not on sale.
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Used cooking oil from a restaurant? Just joking, but I knew some guys that used that for years. Anything to save a buck. Gasp!
camel2019
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Idk about used lots of salt and other nasty stuff in there. I’m still on the fence about vegetable oil in general I have tried it in my poulan made jonsered but it seems to just sling right off. I thought about it for my mill I’m planning on building but that bar I’m going to use is not cheap.
biggerstaff94
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I paid $12 for a gallon of cheap stuff at TSC last weekend. Same stuff ive always ran.
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Don't your oil tank empty out prematurely when using the thinner flowing motor oil?
Not really,at least mine doesn't.Just seems the thinner oil flows cleaner and don't gunk the saw up.I have used cooking oil too but don't recommend it.Also I never use any kind of used oil.
I like the red tacky stuff. I use Durex or Cenex. Cenex is thinner than Durex. Before using these Inused a ton of Walmart supertech, which worked fine.
I have never cleaned the bar groove or oil hole during a day's cutting. In fact the only time I clean the groove and oil hole is when I flip the bar after a chain is used up.
Perhaps you making alot of dust from a dull chain?
I have never cleaned the bar groove or oil hole during a day's cutting. In fact the only time I clean the groove and oil hole is when I flip the bar after a chain is used up.
Perhaps you making alot of dust from a dull chain?
Sharp chains and correct bar.I will look at the brand in th a.m.Something like Kinetic I think.
wilsonhs
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Amazon has brand name bar oil for $15-20 per gallon.
$6.99 a gal at RK at regular price
well, the unused oil hole will get plugged regardless of oil type, and the rails will get a slug down the middle almost instantly so?
One of the machine shops I worked at kept trying to get me to use the waste way oil out of one of the lathes its about the same stuff, but... its gone through the lathe, picked up who know how much junk, then sat in the coolant take for weeks to vacuumed out by a rotten old shop vack... I'd rather spend the money on stuff I know isn't going to jack up my oil pump and toast a bar and chain.
The cheap thing stuff doesn't do the trick if ya ask me, I cut 4-6 hours a day for the last 9+ years, only worn 1 bar out and it was a new Oregon POS.
One of the machine shops I worked at kept trying to get me to use the waste way oil out of one of the lathes its about the same stuff, but... its gone through the lathe, picked up who know how much junk, then sat in the coolant take for weeks to vacuumed out by a rotten old shop vack... I'd rather spend the money on stuff I know isn't going to jack up my oil pump and toast a bar and chain.
The cheap thing stuff doesn't do the trick if ya ask me, I cut 4-6 hours a day for the last 9+ years, only worn 1 bar out and it was a new Oregon POS.
Stonewoodiron
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I’ve done a fair amount of chainsaw milling. This is not where you want to skimp on bar oil. The process is hard enough on the saw, bar, chain, and operator. My 395xp was able to keep a 54” bar properly oiled when turned to max using good oil. I can’t imagine using cooking oil except for short bar scenarios.
camel2019
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My mill will be using a 20hp 4 stroke with drip oilers front and rear.
Stonewoodiron
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Camel, Will it be a bandsaw blade or a chain ? Sounds like a chain since you referenced a bar. What size? Sounds interesting
camel2019
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Thinking 62 inch bar theirs lots of this style out there think people call them slabbing mills. A lot of guys use electric motors some use chainsaws some use 4 stroke engines. I need some 1/8 or 3/16 wall 2 inch square for the uprights I don’t think I have enough and I need angle iron for the track. Seeing what pops up for materials I seen some pallet racking that would have worked last year but didn’t have a use for it then.
I have used that a lot with better results than the red tacky oil.
The unused hole is not my worry.Not trying to sound like a smart @$$ here,but the cheapo oil from DG has never clogged up the used hole after a tank of fuel has been ran through the saw.
and, for those of this thread who are NOT professionals.........you homeowners with a cheap saw, looking to trim the fat/cost at every turn........there is NO substitute for the correct guide bar oil.
For those of us who DO know about our chainsaws..... If you have ever serviced a POS that some cheap skate has run his oil changes thru, you know of what we speak.
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