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Offline lawyer_sawyer

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lube and swing mills
« on: October 06, 2005, 08:31:25 am »
I may have missed something but looking back I can't find where anyone says they use any lube other than water when running their swing mills.  But when reading about lube for Bandmills there seems to be several different lubes out there and also some people add different things to the water.  Does anyone use anything other than water when running their swing blade mills.

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Re: lube and swing mills
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2005, 08:38:06 am »
Just a little dish soap to keep the algae away.  Only in the last tank of the day.  In the winter, if things are frozen, I usually go lubeless  :)

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Re: lube and swing mills
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2005, 12:35:06 pm »
Water here also on the swinger.  I don't use lube on the bandmill in the winter either
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Re: lube and swing mills
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2005, 08:27:25 pm »
LS,

here in Aus, every fill I squirt lemon based dish detergent into the water bottle. I also run the tap full open. Not sure if I need to have it full open, but having the detergent reduce's build up on the blade (something I notice heqaps when sharpening time comes, I remove all the buildup off the tooth before sharpening and using the above I hardly get any build up on the tooth now) and the lemon base helps with the tanic acid we have in our hardwoods.

Might be different over there???
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Re: lube and swing mills
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2005, 05:50:20 am »
summer, just water. Winter- have used water with windshield washer fluid but diluted and never leave any in tank at end of cutting for the day, BUT I think I will not use any this winter on hardwood and will see if I need any for softwood just to keep the blade clean. Trial and error.
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Re: lube and swing mills
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2005, 07:41:33 am »
Just water

I cut some pine a few days ago and didn't have any sap problems.... 
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