View Single Post
Old 08-19-2016, 05:43 PM   #3
particlewave
Custom User Title Here
 
particlewave's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Ft. Leonard Wood
Posts: 6,164
Garage
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamesp View Post
This is a priceless thread. Folks who have never machined anything in their lives giving sage advice. Olive oil! Bwha ha ha ha ha!!!!! Brilliant!!! WD 40?!?! Hope you're looking for some nice loose threads! What a bunch of jokers! Hey, Ive got some vegetable oil I could spare... I'm sure somebody out there has some K-Y, or maybe consider the right tool for the job, cutting oil. Almost like it was made for just such an application. I'm glad to see you ditched the primitive Pete's and are doing the job right. A textbook example of folks giving bad advice on the forum.

Now to be completely fair, a crappy thread cutting job for you application really doesn't matter, but if you were cutting threads where fit mattered olive oil advice is deadly.
I know you're not referring to me since you know that I'm an engineer and have been machining and turning wrenches for 20 years. Or did you forget?

You don't need cutting fluid for a 1/8" job, as you just stated (and contradicted yourself).
Have you been drinking?

BTW, a proper engine rebuild would have included an ultrasonic bath (or does doing things by the book only apply to others?).

#dontinternetdrunk

Last edited by particlewave; 08-19-2016 at 05:58 PM.
particlewave is offline   Reply With Quote