Penetrating Fluids

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Bacon Grease works good for cutting oil, i used to work at a fab shop a few years back and we used it on everything. it also smells like bacon when your cutting something!!
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72 brownie wrote:Bacon Grease works good for cutting oil, i used to work at a fab shop a few years back and we used it on everything. it also smells like bacon when your cutting something!!
Had a boss in a shop that had his wife collect bacon and sausage grease in old drill tubes and it drove me nuts. I couldn't take it. Made me hungry as all get out then I'd get crabby if I didn't get some grub in me.
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Bob wrote:
72 brownie wrote:Bacon Grease works good for cutting oil, i used to work at a fab shop a few years back and we used it on everything. it also smells like bacon when your cutting something!!
Had a boss in a shop that had his wife collect bacon and sausage grease in old drill tubes and it drove me nuts. I couldn't take it. Made me hungry as all get out then I'd get crabby if I didn't get some grub in me.
HAHA :lol: yea you defiantly would not want to get any work done if you were hungry! but ill tell you what it worked good and it was cheap! (as long as you reg ate bacon of coarse)
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i have used Loctite freeze & release in the past with awesome results! http://www.loctitefreezeandrelease.com/
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I think it was Foot pounds of torque. Not pounds per square inch. How would one determine the square inch contact surface area of a set of threads ?

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the overall greatest penetrating oil is called corrosion x. it's much better than pb. it comes in a red and white bottle and as well as penetrating it kills rust and corrosion and it is safe on electronics. the catch is how expensive it is. last i checked it was around 30 bucks a bottle.
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when I was working at a sawmill right after highschool the older guys where using a mix of atf and high sulfur diesel fuel as a penetrant. When we serviced the big hyster lift trucks we would take the frozen carriage chains and soak them in this until they freed up. then a mix of atf and bar oil were used to lubed them up.
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