Bloody mice! They like chainsaw oil, apparently.

You would have thought it might have killed them. Brian

Probably eco friendly vegetable based.

The oil sprays all over the place when the saw is running, and you're inhaling a fine mist, so it's tested against toxicity.

Hopefully!!

Mine isn't at the moment, Sigh. Blocked oilway? f***ed oil pump? ...ANOTHER problem.

Oil is oil. Rape oil was originally developed to lubricate steam engines, before the Texas oil rush.

oil is not oil.

even gack in the 60s when I visited BP's reaserch facility there were over 300 different sorts of oil with contrasing properties on the market

On mine the flexible tube from the pump to the bar was pinched in the casing /from new/. Bloody Screwfix cheap crap. Easy fix of course, not worth taking it back.

It is the plastic that they enjoy nibbling.

They will fit through the tiniest of gaps. They nibble anything with the texture of cable insulation including the handle of one of my hand forks. The most annoying was when they nibbled a rubberised block that holds my best selection of hex socket screwdriver bits of all varieties.

Leave them some toxic bait in a mouse trap to nibble in your shed. They won't nibble too many more things after that.

In my greenhouse the datura seeds act as natural rodent bait.