Cheapest best bar oil

[KenJax Tree]

I just wish bar oil could be blue like the gas

Amsoil does make bar oil but its not blue. Semi synthetic and $20 a gallon

 

[bwalker]

I've never seen bar oil under 10 a gallon here.

I got 15 gallons of very tacky synthetic gear lube out of a gearbox at work. Was only in a short time. I go to Walmart and buy the cheapest five gallon bucket of oil I can find and cut it with just enough gear lube to make it tacky. Might last me the rest of my life.

Blending your own cost more than buying cheap bar oil.
Plus, gear oil stinks, is full of nasty compounds and isn't tacky. It also attacks yellow metals so if your oil pump has any brass parts in it they will be destroyed in time.

 

[bwalker]

Amsoil does make bar oil but its not blue. Semi synthetic and $20 a gallon

That's a bit steep.

 

[bwalker]

It doesn't smell. It's synthetic and it wasn't in there long enough to even change color

Gear oil stinks because it's full of sulphur compounds. All of it stinks, synthetic or not.

 

[bwalker]

I just wish bar oil could be blue like the gas

I've seen red, but not blue.

 

[DSS]

Blending your own cost more than buying cheap bar oil.
Plus, gear oil stinks, is full of nasty compounds and isn't tacky. It also attacks yellow metals so if your oil pump has any brass parts in it they will be destroyed in time.

Gear oil stinks because it's full of sulphur compounds. All of it stinks, synthetic or not.

You're quite the expert. I wonder how gearboxes with brass bushings and other parts survive running with gear oil in them? As I already stated, this oil does not stink, it smells like oil. And it's extremely tacky. Some type of Swepco concoction. So apparently you don't know everything. Shocking.

As far as cost, the last bucket of motor oil I bought was on clearance for $20; if you can show me where to buy six gallons of bar lube for 20 bucks, I'll stop making it. Until then I'll just continue to be happily stupid

 

[KenJax Tree]

Old Wolfhead motor oil and can of STP oil treatment of tackiness in a Tradewinds iced tea jug and i have bar oil

 

[psuiewalsh]

Need some of that slick 50 stuff . Who needs bar oil

 

[jake wells]

Need some of that slick 50 stuff . Who needs bar oil

lucas oil treatment

 

[bwalker]

You're quite the expert. I wonder how gearboxes with brass bushings and other parts survive running with gear oil in them? As I already stated, this oil does not stink, it smells like oil. And it's extremely tacky. Some type of Swepco concoction. So apparently you don't know everything. Shocking.

As far as cost, the last bucket of motor oil I bought was on clearance for $20; if you can show me where to buy six gallons of bar lube for 20 bucks, I'll stop making it. Until then I'll just continue to be happily stupid

They don't use automotive gear oil...hint.

 

[jake wells]

i like motor oil since it has no smell.

 

[smokey7]

My dad always used gear oil / slide way lube from the machine shop. Then he retired and started buying it and realize it's way expensive to run it so he and I buy cases of starfire bar oil for 6.50 a gallon from my auto supplier. Boom it works great no sulfur smell and it's cheap.