what type in your oil squirter
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keep several in shop with cutting oil in spray bottles. One oiler with whatever automotive 10W30 to 15W40 is handy and one with 80W-90 or 85W-140 for lathes and other machine tools. Added some chain oil (sticky) for sliding sections of shear.
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quattroman
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Whatever engine oil is handy in the general one. Heavy cutting oil in another, Fox float fluid in another, depends what you work on.
alfadan
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Got AW32 in my main oiler. Dark cutting oil in a couple, and gear oil in another.
67CarGuy
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Bad Eye Bill
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Whatever is in the catch can that all oil containers are drained into.
Old Man Roger
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Got about 5 with all different kinds of oil in them.
Oh. Bar oil for the firewood conveyor squeeling is all I use.I'm presuming an oiler, like this:
In the garage whatever is handy in the can. KR oil, PB, *** Magic, etc.
jsaw
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Same here
oldwino
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I have several, mostly Goldenrod, but my favorite is an older NAPA brand with a flexible shaft. Easy to get into tight places
retDAC
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I have a pump oiler for door hinges and other applications where the oil type is not critical. So I drain remnants of bottles/jugs of engine oil, trans fluid, power steering fluid, bar oil, gear oil, etc. into one container and fill the oiler from that. Have to be careful not fill it more than half or so.
sea2summit
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This, but I collect off the diesels for the oilers. I keep a quart canning jar for just this purpose and it also collects and pours with minimal mess.
Hohn
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Air tool oil, because I use more of that than all others combined.
SteveH-CO
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ATF, since it's light in viscosity
jsaw
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I use ATF drained from containers for My air tools , so I also use it along with motor oil in My oil can
tool_scrounge
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Vacuoline 1409 (aka the original Vactra #2 with tackifiers)
Vactra 2
30 weight non detergent oil
10 weight turbine oil
Vactra 2
30 weight non detergent oil
10 weight turbine oil
Hohn
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That's a good idea. The viscosity would be about perfect, most ATFs are synthetic now too and would do a better job than an "air tool" oil while providing some cleaning too. I happen to have a lot of Maxlife synthetic atf on hand, thanks for the suggestion.
jblnut
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In the main ones I keep used motor oil from the farm equipment so it started life out as 15w-40 at least.
I have one with bar oil in it that I use occasionally and it's nice having something sticky.
Also have one with corn head grease that is even stickier yet that somes in handy on older equipment that needs some oil on moving things once in a while.
I have one with bar oil in it that I use occasionally and it's nice having something sticky.
Also have one with corn head grease that is even stickier yet that somes in handy on older equipment that needs some oil on moving things once in a while.
bwringer
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Um. OK...
It all depends on what you're squirting the oil on or into.
My, uh, squirter contains Rotella 15W-40, since it commonly gets used for squirting oil into motorcycle engines for valve checks, and Rotella is JASO MA/MA2 approved and is mostly what I use in motorcycles anyway.
I have Tap Magic in a steel can with a brush next to the drill press. It works far better than motor oil for drilling and tapping. It's not in a squirter, but the point is to use the right stuff for the job and material at hand.
There's also a little bottle of assembly lube on the shelf over my bench for, you guessed it, assembling engines.
I'm not a fan of using random or used oils, unless it's for purposes where it doesn't matter.
nbpt100
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That is a thoughtful answer. Most people, myself included use the oil "squirter" on non critical lubrication. Like door hinges as someone else suggested. It is a great way to get rid of remnant oils/ATF you no longer have a direct use for.
I also have a few cans of the 3 in 1 SAE 20, the regular 3 in 1 and tapping tapping fluid in a can. I use what ever I think will be best for the situation. Not to mention tons of penetration oil in spray cans, chain lube, WD etc.
Lassen Forge
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0W20 Full Syn. Used to be Mobil 1, now it's the same stuff in a NAPA bottle. Tried it when my squirter was empty and I had the dregs of a quart there, when I found out how useful it was I kept with it. Protects, some anti-rust addiives, good lube and it's thin.
freudianfloyd
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I have one with 2 stroke oil for when I am pre-lubing piston rings and bearings in my chainsaws, one has cutting fluid and stays by my drill press, and one has run of the mill motor oil for general use.
cpttuna
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keep 30wt in the squirt can and i Have a plastic elmer's school glue bottle with 3n1 in it
Kasal
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You just gave me a good idea, I have plenty of ATF at home but I didn't have oil for pneumatic tools, now I have solved that problem.
By the way, don't search for Squirter on Google, it could hurt your sensitivity.
Monza Harry
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I use "perm bottles" for kerosene, methanol, coolant, tapping fluid, (and used to for) layout dye, and air tool oil. Less messy for cleaning, stoning (oil stones for deburring), drilling and tapping,and of course 3-4 drops of precious lube in your pneumatic noise makers. These can squirt or give you a small to medium drop. With a quick upward swing you can do the undersides of things as well. My cousin is a hair dresser, but you can get them at your favorite hair stylist, Sally Beauty, Ulta (sp?), etc. There are many suitable juices for squirting from the weapon of your choice! Harry
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rlitman
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Absolutely. I just loaded up an oil squirt can with chainsaw oil for my wife to use in the cross-cut paper shredder.
nbpt100
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How does it work? Let us know. Sometimes the best solutions are counterintuitive. I would have thought a dry lube or a silicone grease that will not fling off the gears so easily and not attack the plastics.
rlitman
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Chainsaw oil (non-biodegradable) is the best shredder lube I've found. I've been using it for years. The squirt can was my recent upgrade.
Chainsaw oil already has tackifiers to not fling off the chain (which moves a LOT faster than any shredder), and is designed for pretty much exactly this task. I've used dry lubes in the past, but the paper picks up too much, leading to clogging. So long as I remember to oil frequently enough, I'm good.
I'll line up a stack of a few sheets (so it doesn't completely soak through), run up a few zig-zag lines of oil and feed it in. My microcut has paper entering horizontally, so I can do this without making a mess. Shredder lubricant sheets are basically just oil soaked sheets that squeeze out their oil as they're consumed.
four.cycle
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I liked the idea. But ATF smells horrible ... like vomit. Not sure what additive is in it that does that or if that statement broadly applies to all the sub-types. But the smell is too much for me. The smell also takes a long time to dissipate.