need a definate yes or no with oil
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Topic: need a definate yes or no with oil
Posted By: syl58
Subject: need a definate yes or no with oil
Date Posted: 16 January 2006 at 9:02pm
| is it safe for an a5 to use air tool oil (or maybe even synthetic air tool oil) instead of hoppes or gold cup or something else?? |
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Posted By: Baratak
Date Posted: 16 January 2006 at 10:50pm
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I have used Airline Oil (DTE Light) with no ill effects... though the normal warnings apply, I'm not accountable if your o-rings are different then mine... yadda yadda yadda... ------------- 
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Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 17 January 2006 at 1:17am
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Air tool oil is exactly the same kind of "pure" lubricant as the Hoppe's. Air tool oil is exactly the correct choice, at the lowest price. |
syl58 wrote:Posted By: Sureshot3091.
Date Posted: 17 January 2006 at 7:32am
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Posted By: Baratak
Date Posted: 17 January 2006 at 4:33pm
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For the most part it's the detergents in some oil that cause the problems and the swelling.
Notace "for the most part" there are some out there that just the chemestry of the oil will cause problems. The reason why Tippmann says "only use these" is because then they only need to test their O-Ring in those. For quality purposes, most companies will take test o-rings and cook them, freeze them, soak them in different oils at different temperatures and measure them for density change, hardness change, and dimentional change. All of this costs money, so if they only have to say 2 or 3 different oils are ok, they only have to test in 2 or 3 different types. P.S. this isn't a one time test usually, it's with every new lot of O-Rings they get in. -------------
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