My battery powered chain saw isn't cutting good. I haven't used it much so didn't think it was a dull chain and it was working fine until all of the sudden stopped cutting. Searched online and found out it could be a lack of oil. I put it next to some cardboard and no oil is coming out. The oil reservoir has plenty of oil though. I took off the side cover and tried to clean it up some but that didn't fix it. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Anyone else have this issue? what can I do to fix it?

The chain should be cat claw sharp. As in if you pulled your finger across one of the individual blades on the chain does it grab you like a cat claw. If not you need to sharpen it.

Having no chain oiling will not keep it from cutting but will cause the chain to become extremely hot and dull quickly. Some of the Kobalt models are known to have the oil feed tube/pathway stop up with sawdust.
You will need to pull the side blade cover off……take the blade and bar off and clean that area extremely well and see if you can find the oil port and open it up.
I had a Milwaukee electric that did the exact same thing.

My bet would be dull chain. If the chain hits dirt even for a millisecond, it's dull. I agree with the cat claw comment

If you can run the saw at operating speed and if you don't see a fine spray of oil on a piece of cardboard held in front of the tip of the bar or spraying on the ground right under the blade, or know your not using chain oil, then you can put a brand new sharp chain on it and it will overheat quickly and go dull….because the heat ruins the temper on the cutting blades.
You will wear your bar and bar sprocket out quickly if you don't have it oiling properly also.
You are going in circles if you keep putting sharp chains on it and it isn't oiling.
You stated in your OP that it is not oiling and not using chain and bar oil. Fix that problem first.

Chainsaw Sharpener Jig Kit always good to have to sharpen chains

Go get yourself a gas axe

Did you put the chain on backwards? I've done that before and wondered why it wasn't cutting worth a crap.

Amount of cutting as important as the type of cutting. Get yourself a sharpener. A dull chain makes a bigger difference on an electric chainsaw than a gas one.

Shade tree 'fix' if you use it infrequently and decide you have no desire to take it apart and either clean out the tube obstructing the oil or replace a broken oil pump --

Get a small oil squirt can. Fill it with chainsaw oil and keep the chain manually lubricated. Doing it every 7 cuts or so will probably do it.

Yes, it's lazy, and my grandfather would be ashamed of me even to mention it.

Josepi said:

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Did you put the chain on backwards? I've done that before and wondered why it wasn't cutting worth a crap.

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No. Havent changed out the chain since I got it.

Maybe this will help.

Josepi said:

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Did you put the chain on backwards? I've done that before and wondered why it wasn't cutting worth a crap.

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what kind of moron does that?


(I've done that.)

Me too.

I'm on team moron a time or five..... glad to be in good company....

Not to de rail but you will like this.
So back in September I have a good friend that has 28' Cigarette. He spent about 25 grand and put a 800 HP engine it and a new Bravo outdrive.
He knows nothing of propping it out so I gather up about 15 props or so and we head to the lake to test.
I borrowed five of those from my buddy who owns a boat manufacturer and they are all brand new in the box …never opened. All Mercury Props….. of course all right hand drive.
So we are into testing and keeping exact performance data and I grab one of those new props and the part number says 28" pitch RH.
I slap it on there and back him in at the ramp and he cranks up and the boat won't go anywhere.
He ask me if the boat is still hooked to the trailer….. (You know where this is going don't you?)….. He keeps giving it throttle and I can tell he is going forward not reverse.
Well he goes into a panic that his outdrive he just spent all that money on had gone kaput. He starts thinking all kinds of stuff and I tell him to put it in forward instead of reverse. He does that and of course the boat comes off the trailer.
Well we pull it out and sure enough the box was mis marked and it was a left hand prop.
I never noticed it when I put it on the prop shaft.
Part number on the prop said RH but it was a left hand.
Mercury had really messed up.
But my buddy was much relieved!