Bar Oil

I use the jug it came in. Yesterday I thought I may need a shovel to get it in the saw.

I use the 1 gallon husky jugs. I cut a V into the aluminum cover and it pours nice. Keep it warm and it will pour easier. I wouldn't move it to another jug because I can get about 3 fillups in the 385

I use the gear oil bottle method and never spill a drop. Learned that trick from my father years ago because his Homelite Super Xl had a ridiculously small fill hole for the oil.

I don't cut with it often anymore, but the brake handle on my 041 makes it a pain to fill. I had an old liquid dishwashing liquid container I used for a bit (pretty much the squeeze bottle idea).

I usually just use the smaller quart sized jugs and refill them though

1970roadrunner said:

I don't cut with it often anymore, but the brake handle on my 041 makes it a pain to fill. I had an old liquid dishwashing liquid container I used for a bit (pretty much the squeeze bottle idea).

I usually just use the smaller quart sized jugs and refill them though

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Bingo!

I use the 4 litre jugs here in Canada which are almost 1 gal. Ours have the opening offset to one end and everyone tries to pour it with the opening on the bottom. The trick is to REVERSE the jug and have the opening on the side. That way, when you pour it, it comes out more slowly and you can get the opening right over top of the fill hole on the saw. On my 026, the hole is right beside the handle and it still works just great. I tried winter blend bar oil but my theory is that as long as the oil tank is near empty when i refill the gas, it must be OK. You do not want oil that is too loose, it will just drip and you want it top stay on the bar & chain.

basswidow said:

TSC had a large gallon of bar oil on sale.

What do you guys use to put your bar oil into the saw? I usually just buy the smaller quarts as they are easy to pour. I was thinking of saving my empties and filling those up from a larger gallon size as there is no way to fill the saw from the larger gallon size bottle.

Is there an easier method for bar oil? Say a sports squirt bottle? Or is there a pump lid ? That would be convient.

Just wondering what others use in the field.

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Just bought a new saw, and the saw shop owner used an average (maybe a liter?) sized fabric softener bottle, the new ones with the nice pour spouts. Worked really well, and they have a large enough opening to make filling from a gallon fairly easy. This guy is around 70-ish, and has run his shop since Moses had short pants, so I figure he's had plenty of time to find what works.

All of this, of course, is assuming the user is secure enough in his manhood to get past the baby blue bottle, with the annoyingly cute teddybear on the front.

Just a caution about vegetable based bar and chain oil. My son bought some at Home Depot a few years ago on sale. Don't remember the brand. I think it was Eco-something. After the oil sat in a saw for about a year it plugged the oiler hard enough to brake the drive gear. Other than that problem we liked the product. I would be sure to run all of that bar oil out of the saw before any long storage after using it.
Tom

When it really gets cold out, below 10 degrees you really should use winter weight oil which is 10# whereas regular summer oil is 30#. The plastic pumps in saws are stressed a lot more trying to pump very thick oil.

I agree on the quart bottle thing too, it makes not spilling much more manageable. I use old motor oil bottles.

A qt of oil won't fill the 650 many times :-0

clemsonfor said:

A qt of oil won't fill the 650 many times :-0

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I agree with ya there. The 372XPG takes a bunch of bar oil too and will use almost a quart of fuel.

The quart bottles are only practical with the small saws in the 50cc class.

Yea my 372xp will run thru fuel/ oil

2100CD & 288XPW fuel tanks - 1 liter (33.9oz) & .09 liter (30.51oz) capacity,oil tank .5 liter (16.95oz) on both

Super Pro 125 fuel tank -3.2 pints or 51.2 ounces,oil tank about 15oz

I do the same thing CountryBoy does.


posted right here in prev topic on page 2...
I didnt try it earlier this week at -18.

https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/winter-weight-bar-and-chain-oil.105033/