Timeline for What's a suitable lubricant for woodworking clamps?
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| Oct 19, 2020 at 7:15 | comment | added | Graphus | @JohnCanon, yup, and similar refined animal fats like lard can also be used. I find them way too greasy for my taste (for this purpose specifically — too prone to attracting dust as with all 'wet' lubricants/anti-rust coatings). Plus tallow etc. aren't as readily available to most as good ol' paste wax, and if necessary it can even be made at home with little effort. | |
| Oct 18, 2020 at 4:35 | comment | added | John Canon | Roy Underhill, star of The Woodwright on PBS, wrote about the joys of mutton tallow as a tool lubricant in Popular Woodworking Magazine in the August 2010. | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 8:19 | comment | added | Graphus | @SaSSafraS1232, yes indeedy! I gave it a +1 FWIW, but I betcha it'll be too soft for the OP. Or there'll be some other reason trotted out for it not being suitable. Assuming he doesn't just abandon the Q...... another of his SOPs :-/ | |
| Oct 15, 2020 at 15:59 | comment | added | SaSSafraS1232 | @Graphus oh he will love the answer I just posted then...! | |
| Oct 15, 2020 at 4:21 | comment | added | Graphus | @FreeMan, yeah sorry about mis-tagging my reply there! Re. the Comment I just left under your recent Answer about casework, the rules of conduct forbid me from actually saying what I wanted to say there. But seriously you wasted your time, OP in that case always knows better *rolleyes* | |
| Oct 15, 2020 at 4:18 | comment | added | Graphus | @SaSSafraS1232, oops yes, thanks! | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 18:06 | comment | added | FreeMan | You know, @SaSSafraS1232, if all I'd read was your comment about 50 year old strippers... :D | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 18:04 | comment | added | SaSSafraS1232 | that was @FreeMan but I know what you mean. The strippers here still work but not when you get down to the 50+ year old layers... | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 11:27 | comment | added | Graphus | @SaSSafraS1232, re, England, yeah I know, tell me about it! Here in the UK we haven't been able to get a decent finish stripper in years because of it -_- | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 11:59 | comment | added | FreeMan | "Nanny state" says the guy who lives in England... :) The People's Republik of Californiastan is trying to out-do you guys, and sadly, because it's easier to have one product line to sell throughout the US (witness: car industry in the 80s), they are setting de facto policy for the whole US. It's rather annoying. :( | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 7:50 | comment | added | Graphus | @SaSSafraS1232, California is infamous for being a Nanny State, so I'm comfortable in labelling it as such :-) whether it's relevant to the question of their ban on solvents or not. But elsewhere the bans and heavy restrictions on certain chemicals can be just silly. There are maybe a dozen things you can buy in almost every hardware store in the US that are banned from sale to consumers over here, it's just bonkers. | |
| Oct 12, 2020 at 15:53 | comment | added | SaSSafraS1232 | The push to ban solvents in California isn't a "nanny" issue (i.e. keeping end-users safe from dangerous chemicals.) It is a smog issue. Several of the big cities in California are surrounded by mountains (LA/Riverside in particular, but also Sacramento and Fresno) and the smog will just sit in the basins and linger forever. Every ounce of solvent that is sold eventually evaporates and contributes to this. That said, I make sure to keep enough mineral spirits and denatured alcohol on hand to keep me supplied for the foreseeable future. | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 16:01 | history | answered | Graphus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |