[AT] General questions

[Spencer Yost]

Thanks Herb,

Maybe a Coke bottle filled with oil with a rag stuffed in the top and just letting the chain rub the oil off the rag.  The baling wire to stiffen the rag a bit?? 

That actually reminds me of a story.   A saw mill I used to work at a long time ago had pictures of the previous generations logging. Teams of horses and some big damn logs - that sort of thing.  The boss  told me that when he was a boy he and his dad would cut down trees with a two man crosscut saw.  They would lubricate the two man saw with a bottle filled with kerosene and  the top crammed full of pine needles.  They'd rub the saw with that, saw some more, rub some more, and so on.

Back when men were men...

Spencer Yost

> On Nov 13, 2017, at 9:44 PM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Not a factory design;  a drop, drop, drop of oil (that keeps the wick/rag 
> oily) onto a short wick/rag that rubs the chain in the rollers area.  There 
> has to be a short piece of baling wire in there somewhere.   Herb(GA)
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Spencer Yost
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 9:23 PM
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> Subject: [AT] General questions
> 
> I have two general questions that I have always wanted answers to, and I 
> seem too intellectually challenged enough to solve on my own:
> 
> How do you oil very long chains(i.e. my baler or sawmill) without wasting 
> tons of oil and making a mess?  I sit there with a plunger style oil can and 
> oil when it's running.  But even  that seems sub optimal. There has to be a 
> better way?
> 
> As Dean VP indicated in an earlier post, I should use WD-40 to hunt for 
> vacuum leaks on my 430. I have done that before, and I did it again with the 
> 430(to no avail). But I did hear many years ago that the only reason that 
> WD40 used to work is because butane was the propellant and it no longer is 
> the propellant.  Is that true?  Is there a better way to find vacuum leaks? 
> An unlit propane torch came to mind but sounded dangerous.
> 
> Thanks!  Inquiring minds want to know.
> 
> Spencer Yost
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