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CA-ON Cutting oil for twist drills

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Lenox BAND-AID band saw cutting fluid for everything. No smoke, no smell, doesn't go rancid. 10:1 ratio makes a good general-purpose coolant with no fuss or mess. SWMBO doesn't complain about the smell like when I used to use the Princess Auto soluble oil or Ridgid Nu-Clear.

I keep empty glass maple syrup bottles and graft the pump sprayers from household cleaners onto the syrup bottles for cheap-n-nasty pump sprayers. Perfect size for my little hands and the glass bottles don't harden and crack like cheap plastic spray bottles. One or two sprayers near each machine tool.
 
whydontu said:
Lenox BAND-AID band saw cutting fluid for everything. No smoke, no smell, doesn't go rancid. 10:1 ratio makes a good general-purpose coolant with no fuss or mess. SWMBO doesn't complain about the smell like when I used to use the Princess Auto soluble oil or Ridgid Nu-Clear.

I keep empty glass maple syrup bottles and graft the pump sprayers from household cleaners onto the syrup bottles for cheap-n-nasty pump sprayers. Perfect size for my little hands and the glass bottles don't harden and crack like cheap plastic spray bottles. One or two sprayers near each machine tool.
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I always thought the water soluble oils needed to be in a constant flood or even a constant spray like a cool mister. Does it work just to give a spray now and then like you would wipe on a cutting oil? I assumed that because it wasn't as thick it wouldn't stay on the part and lubricate/cool and there for needed to be in a constant flow. I am just about out of cutting fluid so I may have to look into this.
 
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