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premmington
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Fuchs Silkair vg22 about a tenner a ltr.
daedalusminos
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About £3/litre from QD
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One of the oily rags down the garage today said "i just use power steering fluid" has done for years,never had a prob.
Well,i got loads of that,so why not
Well,i got loads of that,so why not
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Honestly air tools are enough expensive, you can not really run them on everything.
Biggest investment you have to do is to buy a filtration system to remove any moisture from the airlines.
And 90% of the problems have been solved.
Oil has to be specific for air tools preferably.
That's because some oils have solvents that might harm rubber components, but also because most oils will become ice due to air expansion
Biggest investment you have to do is to buy a filtration system to remove any moisture from the airlines.
And 90% of the problems have been solved.
Oil has to be specific for air tools preferably.
That's because some oils have solvents that might harm rubber components, but also because most oils will become ice due to air expansion
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That's the reason I use Automatic Transmission Fluid - fairly well suited to seals and resiliance to temperature, plus it's easily available and cheap locally.
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But it's not a water displacement like WD-40 which on the other hand might corrode rubber components
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If I wanted something like that, I'd pee in it.
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Smells the same too, but at least you don't have to hide it from the view of visitors!
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Why does WD always disappear when someone enters your working area?
That's an unsolvable mystery.
We always try to hide it at work because you can't leave it around otherwise you'll won't find it anymore.
I use it a lot to turn aluminum
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Like when was that?
Thats about £17 now
I think you need to talk to your procurement department about getting a cut from all the brown envelopes they've been taking...
The bottle pictured, costs £7 a litre from Toolstation if you need it same day.
About £5 a litre posted from a seller on Zoro... Or if you splash out and go up to £6 then you can get Fuchs Silkair instead.
