[GreenKeys] [External] Re: WD-40

[Curt Nixon]

Air tool oil is very similar.   Usually clear and good to 30-40,000 
RPM.   Get it in small queeze bottle anywhere they sell air tools.

KU8L


On 9/6/2020 5:45 PM, Bruce Gentry via GreenKeys wrote:
>
> 10W turbine oil is used in hydraulic elevators and can be had in five 
> gallon pails from oil suppiers. You can also try to find and befriend 
> an elevator technician, buying them coffee and a snack should get you 
> a gallon or two.� NEVER go to the office of an elevator company, or 
> a supervisor!��
>
> ����� Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY��� Local 62 International 
> Union of Elevator Constructors, Retired.
>
>
> On 9/6/20 4:46 PM, 1oldlens1 wrote:
>> There is something called turbine oil made for high speed 
>> machinery.� I suspect a lot of fine machinery pil is repackaged 
>> turbine oil.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: "Jones, Douglas W" <douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu>
>> Date: 9/6/20 12:59 PM (GMT-08:00)
>> To: Jeffrey Angus <jdangus at att.net>, greenkeys 
>> <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] [External] Re:� WD-40
>>
>> From: Jeffrey Angus [jdangus at att.net] -- Sunday, September 6, 2020 
>> 2:12 PM
>>
>> > A specific oil?
>>
>> When Teletype Corporation was a branch of the Bell System, they 
>> recommended KS7470 oil.� That is no-longer available, but I did 
>> some research.� See:
>> -- https://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/UI-8/ks7470oil.shtml
>>
>> I've been using Starrett 1620 Tool and Instrument Oil, because it 
>> comes in convenient sized small bottles.
>>
>> One datasheet I found said this is really Nye Delicate Machinery Oil 
>> 113, which you can easily buy by the gallon or drum.
>>
>> But, on my small instrument-makers lathe, I use sewing machine 
>> oil.� It's clear instead of yellowish, but seems very similar in 
>> general characteristics.� You can get it at just about any fabric 
>> store.� I learned about this when I encountered a secretary at work 
>> deep in discussion with a coworker who restores full-sized steam 
>> locomotives for a hobby.� Her hobby was restoring sewing machines, 
>> and they were deep in a discussion of freeing old rusted mechanisms, 
>> cleaning bearings, degunking and lubrication.� It turns out that an 
>> old sewing machine that's been rusting in a barn for 50 years is no 
>> more or less a problem than an old locomotive that's been rusting in 
>> a city park for 50 years.� Aside, that is, from the matter of size.
>>
>> ����������� Doug Jones
>> ����������� jones at cs.uiowa.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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