[Jewelry making - Article 01111] - Re: [Orchid] Trim saw lubricants

[Hans Durstling]

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Hi Adam, Hi all,

    Never never never use vegetable oil in your diamond saw. It works
    like varnish. I made that mistake one time and one time only several
    years ago when I ran out of oil & wanted to do some quick sawing
    anyway. So mixed up a witches brew straight out of the kitchen: 50%
    soya oil, 50% olive oil. Very healthy and low cholesterol. 

    After throwing up a pea soup fog inside the saw case it then
    proceeded to dry in there - polmerizing and hardening into the most
    astonishingly tenacious but sticky interior glaze which coated
    everything and took hours of scraping to remove. No solvent that I
    had would touch it. Not kerosene, not alcohol, not acetone. Bad
    stuff. Save it for the frying pan. 

Cheers,
Hans Durstling
for now in Sunland CA


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