SmallChange
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- Joined
- Apr 19, 2019
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- Tractor
- New Holland WM25 with 200LC front end loader, filled R4 tires 43X16.00-20 and 25X8.50-14 (had a Kubota B6200D with dozer and R1 tires)
I got tired of the crummy combination squares from Lowes or Home Depot, pitched the last one into the trash, and bought a nice hardened cast steel one from Starrett. It's so nicely made, works so smoothly, and has such nice fit.
Tools like this sometimes acquire a light oil or grease film just from use, especially if they stay in a machine shop where everything acquires that film, but sometimes they wind up more stained and corroded looking, I guess from salt from the skin.
Is there a nice oil or grease to put a light film on tools like this, or calipers, or micrometers, and so on? I don't mean dripping off, just a very faint film that I'd refresh any time the tool gets cleaned.
I have "Fluid Film", which sounds like it's made of lanolin (a common skin treatment also), so maybe that would be good?
Tools like this sometimes acquire a light oil or grease film just from use, especially if they stay in a machine shop where everything acquires that film, but sometimes they wind up more stained and corroded looking, I guess from salt from the skin.
Is there a nice oil or grease to put a light film on tools like this, or calipers, or micrometers, and so on? I don't mean dripping off, just a very faint film that I'd refresh any time the tool gets cleaned.
I have "Fluid Film", which sounds like it's made of lanolin (a common skin treatment also), so maybe that would be good?