"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
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On 9/18/2017 6:27 PM, Ignoramus10622 wrote:
A company gave me this drill press.

http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Allen-Drill-Press.jpg

I will actually use it instead of scrapping, and my question is, is
it
better to use soluble coolant, or cutting oil on it.

thanks

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For your needs, used motor oil will be perfect!

http://www.hse.gov.uk/mvr/topics/oil.htm

Used motor oil may contain heavy metals like lead from the bearing
shells and combustion byproducts suspected of causing cancer.
https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=13&po=11
"It is difficult to ascribe observed health effects in epidemiological
studies to specific PAHs because most exposures are to PAH mixtures."