Chainsaw oil in scottoiler

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Chainsaw oil in scottoiler

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Anyone used chainsaw oil in a scottoiler.it's getting expensive scott oil or is it me being a tight arse.to me chainsaw oil looks to be the same stuff but you can get 5 litres for the price of 1 litre of scott oil.any feed back would be great good or bad.cheers tony.
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used it for the last couple of fills seems ok (thumbs)
I'm sure the right tight wads will be along shortly to recommend other types :P :P

cheers vince (thumbs)
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Re: Chainsaw oil in scottoiler

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Any oil will work in a Scottoiler. The advantage with chainsaw oil (and slideway oil which is what I use) is that it has an adhesive component that acts as "anti-fling".

The disadvantage of the adhesive component is that it looks dirty whereas plain oil like a multigrade or monograde will be nice and clean.
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A mate of mine uses saw oil poured on from a bottle and swears by it, I'm sure there must be technical differences but to most of us it's just oil for chains, cheaper by the gallon too ;) and you can get bio-degradeable chain-saw oil

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Post by bikenav »

use oil I uh "obtain" probably not perfect but its free therefore negates possible slight extra chain wear, tight Welshman see.
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Used it for years but I squirt a bit of WD40 in with it to try and thin it out a little.
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Well I am glad to see its not just me.thank all you tight arse.lol (thumbs)
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I read recently that 'Rock Oil' chainsaw oil is 'very similar' to scottoil, costs about £18/5L.
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ONLY IF ITS ANTI FLING TONY, FED UP OF GETTING COVERED IN IT!
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Re: Chainsaw oil in scottoiler

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The cheapest ATF I can find, usually in a 25l container in the bus garage about 10m from me :whistle:

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