A cheap and cheerful oiler solution
Hi all,
Up until recently I had basically used a standard oil can to deliver oil lubrication to the various oil points on my machines. As you can imagine, this has been a constant source of self-inflicted frustration, since an oil can is not really designed to deliver oil to these ports, it usually ends up all over the place! It requires what people call a pom pom oiler although I have never owned one or seen one!
So I did some searching on ebay recently for a cheaper alternative and found this:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/OREGON-G...sAAOSwxp9W6jW0
Made by Oregon, it's designed to deliver grease to a lubrication port on your bar sprocket. In any case I figured I needed one for my chainsaw anyway and so two for $36 sounded like a good deal. I chose the above seller but there are numerous sellers offering similar products at similar prices. They all seem to be made from the same company and most that I looked at had "Made in Germany" plastered all over them which had me wondering if it was genuine.
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Anyway, today I decided to have a play. So I removed the grease from one of them and flushed it clean before adding some oil. The grease (or oil) is held in with a rubbery silicon ring pull plug and then a black end plug. The end plug is more just a dust cap really and all the sealing is done with the silicon ring pull seal. I was dubious if that particular seal would hold the grease in (especially if left lying down over summer) let alone any oil but to my surprise it is a particularly effective seal. Not even a drop of oil runs out if left inverted.
Next, I tried it on an oil port on my lathe. Surprisingly, it was a joy to use! It delivered 99% of the oil into the ball oiler with very little left to wipe up afterwards and no oil leaks from anywhere else.
Next was to try one of the oil ports on my Pacific Mill. It is inverted. Surely it would run into issues delivering oil upside down, since it would "suck" air if it was not completely full. Once again, It was a pleasure to use. That soft silicon seal is actually a clever design as it moves down the tube as the oil is dispensed, meaning there is never any air in the system.
Anyway, not sure if anyone is actually interested in this but the issue of lubrication always seems to come up from time to time so I thought I would share my experience with others using this type of oiler. I guess time will tell how long they last but for a home workshop environment, it's not going to be used all day, every day and FWIW, I think they are actually made in Germany. The black dust cap also has "made in Germany" in much smaller, more believable writing.
Happy lubricating folks!
Simon
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