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20th May 2016, 09:03 PM #571
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20th May 2016, 11:00 PM #572
I may have mentioned this before, but.... I've been using 'Mouse Milk' for years now. I haven't found a better penetrating oil - and it's a great lubricant with very low viscosity too - and it doesn't just evaporate or turn to carbon when heated, even at high temperature.
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retired - less energy, more time to contemplate projects and more shed time....
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21st May 2016, 12:08 AM #573
No it doesn't. you need to shake it before use. I read an article from a car magazine website about a trial of different penetrants. It was not exactly lab conditions, but they concluded that ATF and acetone worked the best of those tried.
My father used to swear by diesel. It is thicker than ATF tho.
Oil of wintergreen is another one I have read about.
Dean
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29th May 2016, 09:43 PM #574Pink 10EE owner
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I learned I should probably not post this photo of something I did today as there will be pitchforks at dawn on my doorstep
20160529_155814.jpgGold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.
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29th May 2016, 10:09 PM #575Most Valued Member
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RC, a mans gotta do, what a mans gotta do. If no special tool is available, we use what is and can do the job. If I didn't have a wood lathe I'd do the same, actually have turned Aluminimum on the wood lathe.
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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29th May 2016, 10:36 PM #576
Dean,
My father used to swear about it for a different reason . Dad was a watchmaker and a few of his customers brought in watches that were penetrated with diesel. Watches may indeed be waterproof even to 100m .The very same watches are not diesel proof.Diesel and watch seals don't play together.
Oil of wintergreen according to what I read on the net somewhere, was used by the US Navy in WW2 to penetrate and loosen seized threads.I make my moose milk with ATF, acetone and oil of wintergreen (methyl salycitate ).
Another medicine chest item used by the USAF was Milk of Magnesia coated on engine bolts to prevent seizing and allow easy disassembly. I am grabbing a bottle of Oil of wintergreen every time I hit the chemists as these handy compounds are disappearing as time goes by.
I checked at the local chemists and Milk of Magnessia is not sold in the chemists anymore but only available as a component of antacids.
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30th May 2016, 07:26 AM #577Most Valued Member
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Aaarrrgghhh
now you have posted it, I can't unsee it.
Pistols at dawn my good man, you have just been slapped with a gauntlet!!
Oh wait, I did the same thing machining some redgum bearings for a sugar elevator.
Please disregard previous threats.
At least you will clean it up richard.
Phil
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30th May 2016, 08:59 AM #578Senior Member
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A mate of my father used to own a logging machine repair shop in the bottom of the Manning Valley. In the good times, they were servicing a lot of heavy machinery that was getting used and abused by the logging business but the local farmers also used to bring their share of implements in for service and repair. One of the more memorable was an older fella who had to drive his tractor down to the workshop from the top of the mountains. The old fella had successfully diagnosed a smashed piston in the tractor, which would normally be a bit of a show stopper, but not having the tractor handy makes repair a lot harder. He found the least worst bit of redgum firewood out of the stack and took it into his own workshop and whittled a piston out of it on his wood lathe. The piston didnt look long for the world by the time the tractor rolled into the workshop, but it did make the 50 odd kilometre journey!
I think I can forgive you RC, so long as you got the tractor going at the end of it!
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30th May 2016, 09:05 AM #579Most Valued Member
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I wouldnt dream of it.....
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30th May 2016, 01:06 PM #580
Must be an agricultural thing!
I drilled out the end of a pitchfork handle recently so I could fit the fork head into it. It is very hard to find new handles for pitchforks these days. This was actually a long shovel handle with the bent end section cut off. I have to do another handle soon which is thinner and longer. I think this is a rake handle. I will see whether the shorter fatter one or the longer thinner one is best in use.
Not a shade on your efforts tho Richard.
I have just picked up a wood cutting bandsaw and am thinking about a jointer. Maybe I could just use the mill.
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30th May 2016, 03:25 PM #582Member: Blue and white apron brigade
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I used to cut Al plate with a fine (100) tooth 300 mm WW blade on my Table Saw but a few years back I bought a negative rake blade especially designed for Al, plastic and composites and it is now the blade I tend to leave on the saw as it cuts wood a little better (albeit slowly) than the WW blade cuts Al.
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30th May 2016, 05:47 PM #583Senior Member
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Richard, what were you making.
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30th May 2016, 07:08 PM #584Pink 10EE owner
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I am bandwidth restricted until the 1st so while I have a video of what it was for, I can not upload it as I do not want to run out of internetz.
Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.
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30th May 2016, 08:42 PM #585Most Valued Member
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I dont feel so abusive of my mill now