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Regarding cutting and tapping oils/fluids...

Dabbler

Dabbler

ersatz engineer
Premium Member
I've had a lot of people remark on my home made cutting fluids... On the topic of what is a great cutting fluid for steel, it is hard to beat the following video.

'Project Farm' is a channel that features an engineer that concocts the simplest and most effective ways to demonstrate one thing ro another. He does a lot of product testing these days...


 
I already watched it - what is important to note is that the best cutting oils were not thin but quite thick - I suggested to PF to test the white soluble cutting oil with different concentrations and in a band saw. Maybe he can figure out whatever there is some magic concentration that works the best & whatever it actually helps (and by how much).

Also of note is that *anything* is better then nothing.
 
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