[R-390] Synthetic Oil

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Before you put *any* goop in a radio, make sure you can get it back out again. 

1) Do normal solvents dissolve it when new? 
2) Does it gum up after a few days ? Can you still remove it?
3) Does it go silly when combined with a little grease, moly powder, or normal oil? Can you still remove it?
4) How fast does it evaporate? Does it leave a film on everything within 20 feet?
5) What’s it smell like? 
6) What happens when it gets hot? 
7) How runny is it? does it get all over everything and anything? 
8) What does a little of it and a lot of grease do? 

The basic idea here is “do no harm”. There have been a number of super duper ultra neat lubes over the years that failed one or more of the above. You *do not* want to deal with a radio afterwards. 

The major auto oil’s have been through enough testing that they are a pretty safe bet.  The same problems that are a pain in a radio are a disaster in a car...

Bob

On Jul 25, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Charles Steinmetz <csteinmetz at yandex.com> wrote:

> Barry wrote:
> 
>> Anyone tried this stuff?  Looks like it would be handy to apply and would be a good synthetic oil.
> 
> You can buy the needle-tip bottles anywhere.  As for the oil, I want my lubricant to come from a major chemical company with a billion-dollar research budget, not some fly-by-night operation that puts oil up in generic bottles with labels printed on a laser printer.  If you're lucky, you're getting 1 oz of Mobil 1 (or another big-name synthetic oil) for $7, poured out of quart bottles by hand.  If not, who knows what kind of concoction some bathtub chemist has mixed up?  If you buy Mobil 1 by the quart, it is less than $0.30 per ounce.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
> 
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