Hey it's The Carver Kings Paul Frenette here with a PSA announcement for you
For all you Chainsaw Carver's out there. Have you bought a new Canon bar or
new carving bar and you throw it on your your saw and within a few minutes or
within a day or two it starts to burn out on you and you can't figure out why?
Well yeah, I'm gonna show you why. Basically the problem is that on the old saws
they used to have a metal plate across here and this metal plate would block
off the adjustment holes. See how that sits on there?
You got your oil that comes in here and what happens is there's actually a slot.
I don't know if you can see through there but if you look in here (maybe if I
hold it up to the light) here you can see that there's the slot your oil channel is
cut through your adjustment hole. So the oil will go in your
oil holes and then it drops down through this hole well before there was a plate
on here. So when your oil came in here, the plate that would be behind it would
stop that oil from coming out. Well that's not there any more.
See on your saw side there's this metal plate so with the bar in
place that oil was trapped in that hole so wouldn't matter. If you had your
plate on this side they would block it. What you're probably finding is that
you run a saw and it looks like you got oil coming out because the oil spraying
every where but what's actually happening is it's going through your channel
through this hole coming out this honeycombing
and then just dropping down on the bottom of the chain so you're getting
oil on the outside rather than the inside. The solution for this is real
simple I guess Canons actually come up with a
plate that you can buy for $6 or $8 u.s. that you can put over top of that but
basically all I'm doing is taking a good old piece
of duct tape. I got some metal duct tape and you just peel off a chunk, clean
your bar off really good and wrap that around there and make sure that your oil
holes are still open
Right so wrap that all the way around there and then you just put it on and
voila you got a solution to the oil problem and you'll find that you'll use
a tenth of the oil and you actually push the oil through the drive chain channel
so one other thing to watch out for if you look at the adjustment holes or the
oil holes on here when you line them up you can see where your oil feeder is
well if you place that in and you're chintzy on chain like I am you try and
make the chain as short as you can well guess what you're not on the on the oil
because your oil holes were way up here right so if you look at it it's got bars
all the way back it's actually not hitting your oiler so you're not even
getting any oil right . You got to make sure that you add in an extra link so
that your oiler is on the oil holes. Basically that's it . I went
through several bars before I figured out why the hell they were burning out
and basically any of the new saws if you look at them if you look on your
attachment plate if it's open here then you're gonna have a problem with your
bar so I don't know if that's just the cannon bars or if the other bars do it
but basically if you look at your drive channel and there's a slot through that
into your adjustment hole then you gotta cover it up anyway hope that helps you
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