I'm pretty sure no oil reached the chain while I was using this saw for the first time today but as I (a)had soaked the chain in oil before using it and (b)didn't need to run it for very long, no harm appears to have been done.
To save me having to take the thing to pieces if I don't need to, could someone tell me how the oil is supposed to move from the tank to the chain? My first cut produced an awful lot of wood debris which packed itself around the drive gear and the base of the bar: might this have cut off the oil supply?
My last electric chainsaw (A Black and Decker, bought some thirty-odd years ago) had a manual oil pump so I feel I'm rather at the mercy of technology here, trusting that the "self-oiling" feature really does self-oil.
Thanks in advance,
Nick