Hi Dale The method I use is with a clean Phillips screw driver lower it into a bottle of proper compressor oil and with the fitting pointing upwards quickly bring the screw driver out of the oil bottle and over the air fitting intake of your air tool. What drops off is more than enough. I liked Larry's suggestion that a rag is rapped around the exhaust ports and the tools is run to exhaust any surplus build up. It all depends on your running time as to how much and how often you oil your equipment. I have two air compressors here now and find them extremely handy . One in my workshop and one under the house in the garages. Happy Air Tooling.
Regards Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Leavens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Oil in air tools. > Hi Max, > > As far as I can tell, oiling air tools is something of a mystical and > imprecise science. Because air is flowing while in use it is drying and > blowing oil through. Things like nailers and staplers which fire at > intervals and only briefly don't usually need much oil and in fact you > don't want too much as it will begin appearing on your work. Wrenches and > in particular, impact wrenches want more because of the more steady stream > of often fairly high volume air and because of the spinning thumping > thingy which hammers several times per second. And yes, the official term > for that is a thingy regardless what the manufacturer calls it I'll never > remember. > > If you are likely to use your hoses for air spraying, cleaning and such or > for painting do not put an inline oiler up stream of the hose or, be sure > to remove it and change hoses before using the air gun or paint sprayer. > > If you shoot a couple of dozen nails in a session don't bother. If you > shoot half a day then oil either just before your last few shots to coat > the innards before storage or maybe trip the safety and see if you can get > you a squirrel or two before you pack the nailer away. > > Getting a drop or two is pretty tricky when you can't see. I have been > thinking of an inline oiler, they aren't all that expensive but I don't > use my compressor all that often so haven't got around to it yet. > > Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype DaleLeavens > Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Max Robinson > To: Blind Handyman > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 1:53 PM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Oil in air tools. > > > The oil change thread made me think of this. The air tools I just got > came > with a little bottle of some kind of oil. The instructions say to put > three > drops in the air inlet connector before use. What they don't say is how > often after the first use to put in the oil. Does anyone know? Any > guesses? > > Regards. > > Max. K 4 O D S. > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net > Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net > Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com > > To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.12/1072 - Release Date: 10/15/2007 5:55 PM
