manapua_man

This. Anyone who puts a whole lot of time and thought into this is kinda wasting their time and effort IMHO. I really just wipe things regularly because I just like clean(ish) things. Chains really aren't that expensive or difficult to replace after all.




We recycled old motor oil as bar oil when I used to work on a field crew that did a *lot* of tree cutting. It arguably puts more wear than 'clean' oil, but like with bicycles, chains etc. are consumable products and aren't meant to last forever anyway. That and the abuse those saws took was what would kill them, not the less than ideal oil.