[TheForge] Shop tools & layount (was -- 2004 Resolution, Intro & Advice Needed)

[Phil Rosche]

--- Andy Vida <osan@netlabs.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Phil Rosche wrote:
> > 
> > Andy:
> > 
> > I buy my machine oil and way oil from Enco.  It's
> > something like $9.49 a gallon (buy 5 gallons and
> it's
> > cheaper).  Even using it to preserve tools, a
> gallon
> > will last you a year or two.
> 
> 	That's a pretty good deal.  I've always used Mobil
> 	Vactra on my machinery.  Expensive, but not as
> expensive
> 	as replacing a $35K lathe.  Hardinge, for example,
> pretty
> 	much requires you use this oil.  I was thinking in
> those
> 	terms.

The Mobil Vactra is a much better oil than I use, but
my 1957 Logan doesn't care.  

I started using machine oil after doing some
tailgating at some BS meeting.  The tools I had
brought that I had coated with motor oil had some
surface rust.  This other guys tools just had a nice
light film of oil on them.  He told me he used machine
oil.  

I like it cause it has anti rust and anti moisture
additives.

Phil Rosche
Summerville, SC

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