Thread: Lanolin or something like it.

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some time ago I wanted to test just how good lanolin was, I took a peice of 2"X12"x1/4" mild steel and sprayed one half of it's lengh and left it out on a fence post for two years.After the two years the treated section was only just showing signs of rust, the non treated section was begining show pitting,

G'Day Ken,
Their are a few CRC products we used in a maintenance dept in a manufacturing plant.
I've put the website link below.
It may help.
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Ken, It is Lanotec that I use. Any Industrial or bearing place will have it in a spray can. As I mentioned, I don't think Boeshield is available here in retail quantities.

Got another mill project in the shed tonight-I'm housing a friend's Christen U-1 mill (Perrin Brothers of Moutier, Switzerland actually).

It took us all day to fetch it from Bendigo and install it in the garage tonight.

Ah ha, so it was Bendigo today, not TAS, WA or SYD? Another mill? Oh sorry, you are "just minding it".

Is that what you told HQ?, just minding it, that's a goodie.

Enough dribble from me, how effective do you find the lanotec?

Christen U-1 mill, is it a knee type mill or horizontal. Anything like this?

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Edit: found a picture

Ken

KJ,

GQ's mate would wish it looked like that. At the moment it's a "horizontal" unless they unearthed a vertical head. What condition is it in Greg?

An alternative to the sheep dip could be this. A bloke over here swears by it.

BT

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Yeh, good on ya. Where do you get it? Is there an Australian outlet?

Looks interesting, wonder if it smells like mint sauce?

Ken

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I leaning towards the wool extract.

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Originally Posted by neksmerj

Ah ha, so it was Bendigo today, not TAS, WA or SYD? Another mill? Oh sorry, you are "just minding it".

Ken

No, its all his. The mill is more like an FP-2 in size, just like your picture. It was very cheap, but that's because there's a lot of work to restore it. He is on the trail of a vertical head. If one can't be found it's my intention to make one. (!)

The machine has what looks like 500mm X and Z travel, six inches in Y. Gauge block holders on all axes and scales (some missing). The biggest challenge is we'll have to make a complete x axis leadscrew, mounts and handles.

Interestingly, the tee slot spacing on the vertical table is the same as my FP-1, so Deckel fixed accessories would fit.

LPS3 is a great product...it leaves a dry waxy coating. But spray cans are useless because they clog long before the product is used up in a home environment. A gallon would go a very long way-but its more useful for long term storage. It gets sloshed around liberally in the wheel wells of our planes.

I use Lanotec in a trigger spray bottle.

I also use Ubeaut's Trad Wax on somethings, freshly maintained turning tools, ones that have just been cleaned buffed & sharpened are given a coat of wax.
I use the Trad Wax on machine tool table tops & fences as well.

Having seen the LPS3 on the owner of that container's machines, I'm thinking it's the same stuff that was lovingly applied to every surface of my mill by someone at the WRE. Hellish stuff to remove when it sets hard. I've resorted to a razor blade and Goof Off, a zylene based product. I'm still discovering pockets of resistance.

It is a shame the Christen was headless. I dare say the price would have been a touch higher had the vertical head been included. Any chance of tracking the original head down?

I do have a container of Lanotec. If your roast smelt the same, you'd be dead from food poisoning.

What do you remove it with?

BT

Bob, I remove that LPS3 with petrol and a scraper. It's not a great solution obviously.

We are sleuthing after the missing head (found an end mill bite in the table-so it was there once). Too bad the auction house that sold it six years ago seem profoundly unhelpful.

I'm worried that its languishing in a tip somewhere.

Greg

This will sound poor but I have not tried petrol. The container full of the stuff sits next to the mower in a shed down the back yard. Obviously, out of site, out of mind. I will give it a go.

It is disappointing when machines and their attachments become separated but unfortunately it happens all too often. Like the bloke who purchased the ex Uni VM120 and Phillip (Metalman) saying that the Schaublin accessories still reside in cabinets at the university.

Bob

lanotech for me spray it on and let it set
john