Chain oil in the wind

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I was cutting some ugly firewood on the ground today. The wind came up occasionally and also changed directions.

I touched my glasses and -smear-. Took a closer look and the whole lenses were peppered with oil microdots. Made me think about if I was also breathing those micro droplets.

Anybody else encounter this? Was it maybe exacerbated by the wind and not normally that bad?
 
A discussion of Oil Mist exposure limits if you want to get more into it. Ontario has health standards for oil mist too. If a worry, or an asthmatic, just use an N95 mask I suppose. And most saws, you can turn down/up the amount of bar oil you're using. Chain oils have an additive to enhance "stickiness" specifically so it doesn't "throw" so much but stays put on the chain. Cheers

Addenda based on discussion below: US OSHA does have exposure standards for vegetable oils too, similar to those for mineral oils (highly refined or finished). Inhalation exposure to either can affect pulmonary function (for example see references at end of page). Chemical makeup of the oil, length of exposure and particle size distribution (i.e. mist/ droplets or fume (really small droplets) all have bearing on toxicity. Any oil can have health effects - a bar and chain throwing lots of oil probably isn't a good thing, neither is a bar that's smoking (say while cutting a stump or something.

This was a good question
 
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I use to run cushion seal. So thick it was like honey. Now just run bio oil and should explore canola but just burn money on the stihl branded stuff.
I do think is ever so slightly inferior but it’s just a little more bar wear than a what I recall. A bar might last 2.5 years where I feel like I use to get 3 (just random numbers to articulate scale)
 
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I've run vanilla EDIT canola for about 15 years. When used routinely, no problem.
Clean the bar and chain before long-term storage. Run some standard or bio-oil before storage.

Like a grease-burning SVO diesel.


Costco is one source for economical canola oil.





Just don't eat it.
 
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$640/gal. Worth it?

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In retrospect I've seen oil particles/mist before. A short duration as a roomate with a guy who deepfried potatoes. I discovered settling out of airborne cooking oil on the dishes on the kitchen shelf. I figure restaurants like McDonalds have a hood over the grills but do they also have hoods over the french fry oil vats? Heck ironically it might even be canola oil! Maybe that's OSHA territory.

I also wonder if it's oil fling off only at higher chain speeds like when you hold the bar tip above the pavement and rev up to see an oil fling off pattern to confirm oiling. Maybe older torque tractor saws have a hidden virtue.
 
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