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The_Yellow_Ardvark
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I'm still on Cengar Green oil! Can you even get that these days?
EDIT: I just googled it, you can!
Mind you it comes in plastic containers now, mine is still in a metal tin. It has been lying around a bit!
Go to Moutons on the melksham road, they have a few 1 gallon tins.
I use Lucas air tool oil- because I like the bottle it comes in with cap and nozzle 3- drops before I use them at the start of the day is plenty. Won’t break the bank either Have Oiler’s but never used them. Had the bottle three years and still lots in it.
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A refillable “Sauce” bottle is cheap and fits in the pcl fittings and handy to squirt a drop in. I’ve had thinners and panel wipe in one for 4 years and it’s not seemed to kill it. Handy to clean your filler spreaders/spraygun and mixing board!
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A refillable “Sauce” bottle is cheap and fits in the pcl fittings and handy to squirt a drop in. I’ve had thinners and panel wipe in one for 4 years and it’s not seemed to kill it. Handy to clean your filler spreaders/spraygun and mixing board!
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Thanks TYA!
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The oil might be a good price but the postage is a bit cheeky!
You can get it in Ffyes or from anyone that does parts from CD in N.Ireland
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I won’t use WD40 as it dissolved the seal in the trigger part of my impact wrench. I’m using thin oil from Proper Job, £1 for a bottle, seems ok.I always use 3 in 1 - or WD40 - or engine oil - whatever is handy - obviously not very critical
I can fully understand not using the right stuff when in a pinch or if was £50/L but it costs a few quid and a litre will last a hobby user for the rest of their life.
I was using proper airtool oil before I switched to Fuchs Silkair and there was an instant difference in the performance in my impact gun especially in the cold.
I was using proper airtool oil before I switched to Fuchs Silkair and there was an instant difference in the performance in my impact gun especially in the cold.
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I just use sewing machine oil its made to work at high speed and its thin
Farside
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A short squirt of ATF from an oil can when I remember, which is usually when I pick up the tool for first use of the day.
I'm just using cheapy cheerful air tools at the moment but none of them have broken yet. Indeed, when they got flooded and I had to strip and clean them the rebuild involved making sure the vanes were free to move and they worked better after than they'd done before.
That's when I started using ATF, so I know from a cleaned state what they're like and no ancient oil in there clagging things up. If the ATF causes problem I can identify it, hopefully.
I'm just using cheapy cheerful air tools at the moment but none of them have broken yet. Indeed, when they got flooded and I had to strip and clean them the rebuild involved making sure the vanes were free to move and they worked better after than they'd done before.
That's when I started using ATF, so I know from a cleaned state what they're like and no ancient oil in there clagging things up. If the ATF causes problem I can identify it, hopefully.
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Blimey Farside, 3.43! You having trouble sleeping?
Farside
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That would have been the artificial time. My own clocks here don't get molested until I get up the following morning.
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OK so now I've got two 1/2" PCL filter/lubricators! One has a bust pressure gauge as the supplier thought one layer of thin bubble wrap would be proof against the Post Office and delivery drivers. Seems sending a complete new item was simpler than sending a new tiny pressure gauge? As we are in total lock down here in France I'll need to source the connectors on-line - more fun.
