Cutting Fluids

R. Finch shares his researches into this workshop essential. Introduction In a recent Monthly Bulletin of Bradford Model Engineering Society (ref 1), a member had some problems replacing some of his cutting oil when his stocks were running low. He raised quite a few questions about them. He had purchased some ‘soluble oil’ from a supplier at one of the model engineering shows, only to find that when he mixed it with water, it was not ‘soluble’ at all! This was despite diluting it correctly by adding the oil to the water and stirring. He was then left with the predicament of just what he should buy ‘soluble oil’, a neat cutting oil, a semi-synthetic soluble cutting fluid or a fully synthetic soluble cutting fluid. In the end he opted…

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Model Engineer (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 4731

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