3 in 1 oil sucks
Don Foreman wrote:
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:36:05 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader
wrote:
Tom Gardner wrote:
"Cydrome Leader" wrote in message
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I just had another plastic "can" of 3 in 1 oil explode all over the place
when trying to get the ****ty plastic red cap off.
The entire red top came off, not the small cap. This isn't the first time.
Their oil can "looking" plastic containers are utter **** as well. They
leak when you don't want them to, and when you need oil, basically nothing
comes out.
The garbage packaging is why I will no longer but this stuff.
so, who still sells oil in metal cans these days, even it has to be mail
ordered?
Gun oil comes in little leak-proof plastic bottles with good dispensing
dropper.
Good call.
For whatever reason it never crossed my mind to use gun oil. I haven't
even broken the seals on all the bottles of that stuff I've accumulated
that come with any new gun. I just use teflon-ish oils and greases on
everything.
Our local itinerant sewing machine repairman, whom we regard as a
Singer genius, swears by TriFlo in little 4-oz squeeze bottles with
dropper tips and tubes. I have no idea where he gets it. We buy it
from him. Mary has a coupla Singers that are more than 50 years old,
run like new -- and they sew considerably better than most new
machines. No electronics, no plastic, just (!) precision.
That stuff is weird- but works great, as long as you don't already have
other oil on the parts. The rare times I see it, I buy it- and I stree the
rare part.
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