Old sailmakers' supplies; although marine suppliers/chandlers are much scarcer than sewing centers.
Again speaking as one of long but not highly-skilled experience, he may be right that that will prevent breakage of drills, but it doesn't do a lot to slow dulling them; at the same time, I suppose any lubricant also limits the effectiveness of any cutting edge, which necessarily does its job by the friction against the softer surface being removed. Perhaps a tradeoff? I bought a small container of some talc-like substance through MicroMark (?) years ago to be used for any cutting application; I'm not sure whether it makes a lot of difference, but it doesn't seem to hurt, anyway. Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > --- In [email protected], Talmadge C 'TC' Carr <group_l...@...> wrote: > > > > Also check out your bee keepers and honey stores. > > or any marine supply, it's used to wax thread for sewing. > And old blacksmith once told me "You don't want to lubricate the cutting > edge, you want just want to cool it" so he told me to use water when > drilling, don't know if that would apply to tapping too. Maybe since it's so > low speed it wouldn't need cooling even? ...dave [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
