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i use 20 wt non det oil , iso 32 & 68 in my machnes
I use good old 10W30 on mine. If it can handle 100,000 psi contact pressures between engine cams and lifters, I'm pretty sure it'll be fine for my manual lathe ways. I've also been using 22 wt hydraulic oil on my guns for 3 decades now, and I've never had a single problem. Again, if it will lubricate and protect metal from the massive contact pressures in a hydraulic pump running at 2-3000 RPM for thousands of hours, I'm pretty sure the moving parts on my guns are not a challenge that it can't handle. In certain applications, I would agree that it's best to stick with some of the specialty lubricants. For the most part, for what we as hobbyists do, I don't buy into most of the marketing. I'm an industrial mechanic/millwright by trade, and I do mostly heavy equipment. I've seen every gimmick known to keep battery terminals from corroding....some of them stupidly priced. I've always just gooped the daylights out of the with good old chassis lube grease. I recently changed the 4.5 year old batteries in both my wife's van, and my pickup. As expected, after I wiped away the grease, just like always, everything looked like I put them in there the day before.