Sometimes hard to find what I need in this area. Anybody know something else I could use in place of tread cutting oil to tread a piece of aluminum? Thank You, Aaron
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ditto that.. when cutting or drilling.. just about any oil will work... bar oil.. atf.. 10w30.. etc. the regularthread oil I use seems to be about a 30w or so.. o bar oil and similar work nice..
Look for a product called 'Rapid Tap'...it is readibly available on the Internet from numorous suppliers...it is a superior product for cutting soft metals
[Correction] the same company actually makes a product called 'A9'
Cutting and liberating oil are different, look at the names. If there were no difference there would be no need for anything special. I use cutting oil for plumbing, steel, copper, brass.
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S78wingrider, what size die are you using, and how many threads are you cutting? If you are only cutting a couple of smaller threads by hand, pretty much any oil will work, but if you are making many threads, and/or larger threads, you may want to use an oil similar to those already mentioned. My father used to tell me (many years ago), oil is cheaper than dies.
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Believe it or not, a squirt bottle filled with a 50/50 mix of liquid hand soap [dish soap OK] and water works great. I worked in a tooling/robot center back near the end of my work years, and that is what we used. Would not be any good for a machining operation where lots of holes are drilled/tapped in place for hours, but for the odd hole/thread it works just as good as store bought... It is fair with alu and copper and better than tapping oil [which is usually too thin] , years ago we used lanolin hand cleaner for alu/cu... You are not putting something on the drill or tap to lube anything. It is mostly for cooling and keeping the metal from sticking to the drill/tap and to helping the removed metal to 'flow' out away from where the real work is being done. [which you can call lube if you want]