Broke down and spent 150$ on a new bar and 2 new ripping chains after finaly roasting the old ones. The saw oiler just will not do the job. After reading all the threads relating to auxillary oilers I under stand the where and why. Do any of yall have pics of home made oilers, that you don't have to be a machinist to build?
Fish Bait,
Here is a nose oiler I built for a friends Alaskan mill that did not take long to make and didn't cost much to make.
Here is a view of the entire nose oiler mounted on the Alaskan Mill.
Here I used a gas ball valve. When your milling it is easy to look and see how far open your valve is when milling. Just remember to turn it off after you make a cut.
I used 1/8" copper tubing for the drip line. If it ever touches, it won't nick the chain and it is easy to bend to get the drip end positioned right where you want it.
To mount the copper tubing line I used threaded inserts that I put into the top of the adjustment bar. 1/4-20 thread inserts eliminates having to drill all the way through the bar for a lock washer and nut. They're not expensive.
This pictures shows the vent for the oil bottle. They can be purchased at any bearing house for .50 cents each. Now I built my bottle from aluminum, you can make yours from a plastic bottle or anything you can connect an oil line to. I was thinking a small window washer bottle from a car would work and should have some sort of wire frame that mounts it to the car.
With this setup you should be oil the nose of the bar and have it do the majority of lubing the chain. It works fine on my buddy's mill. Good luck.
jerry-