On 2009-09-10, SteveB wrote:
On my new old jack, I put a pint of jack oil in it, and it worked up and
down. It sputtered a couple of times, and kicked out some milky looking
fluid from the filler hole. Aha, I suspected water. I drained all the oil,
and it was a milky gray versus the light black of new oil.

My question: will this separate overnight, and can I then recover the oil
and toss the water?

I had milky compressor oil once, in the old Quincy that I have.

I set it in a plastic jar on purpose to see if it would separate.

The short of it is that it did not separate after several
weeks.

i

May just flush and add new oil, but flush with what?

Steve