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Anchor lube

Tom O

Ultra Member
I just found some Anchor lube at kms for the princely price of $9.44 Joe Pi and Blondiehacks would be proud!
it says it can be thinned down by up to 1 to 1 with water.
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i find there are different products that work extremely well, some cost and some are cost effective.

Several I really on are wax (beeswax the most, any wax will do) so far hasn't failed in any material or cutting application.

Two for Aluminium are my go too's (I'll post them later too ensure the naming is correct).

Couple of heavy cutting oils, mainly for steel.

And final a synthetic cutting flood coolant fir everything, love the stuff as it allows me to cool and get maximium cut and life out of tooling, with little to no clean up or other issues (note little to no is the phrasing here) again I share it correctly. Only draw back is the mill isn't fully enclosed, but its getting closer.

Update:

Aluminium: Relton A-9 and Tap Magic Aluminum

Steel Oil: Relton Rapid Tap HD Cutting Fluid and WD40

Flood (and on anything even hand applied):
https://www.kbctools.ca/itemdetail/1-123-045
 
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