More economical and just as good (or even better?) is generic air tool oil, available at most hardware stores that sell air tools...Like Home Despot or ACE Hardware or your local (if it has not gone belly-up) lumberyard. I use it for my bikes and as a general all-purpose light lubricating oil. It has something in it to lubricate your air tools without gumming them up... TriFlow is about $4/oz or something and you can get a pint of air tool oil for the same...Comes in a squeeze bottle, too. The 'anti-gum'-ness is real. I experimented with normal oil on my bike chain as opposed to both Triflow and air tool oil. Regular oil leaves my chain sticky and dirty after a day or two, while the others do get somewhat dirty, they are not sticky at all. It works in my nail guns too. Don Hanson On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:10 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 10:04 PM 12/4/2009, Gary Bawden wrote: > >> You should be able to buy Tri-Flow, or it's competitor, Break Free >> (which is my personal preference) at any sporting goods establishment. >> > > Ah so! If I were still riding a bicycle I'd have known about this > already. As it is, my only contact with it has been Steve Sandin > recommending it for Vgon locks and whatever-ails-you. > > Yours, > D > |
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