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Tiger
7th Dec 2005, 03:37 PM
Hey all,

What do you guys use as a coolant for turning on the lathe and milling on the lathe. Also where do you buy the stuff from?

Thanks in advance for any info.

benyop
7th Dec 2005, 04:04 PM
what your after is coolant thats what is called, it is generally a water soluble oil or synthetic so it mixes with water. You can by it from alltools, total tools, blackwoods, castrol, fuchs just to name a few

DanP
7th Dec 2005, 05:53 PM
What he said.

Edd
7th Dec 2005, 08:04 PM
Also, other than water soluble cutting oil (which I realised has some detergent/disinfectant in it -interesting), you might want some slideways oil like Shell Tellus S 68 (I think) which supposedly doesn't get washed off by cutting oil. :)