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which oil for oil welder

  • 06-05-2014 11:40am
    #1
    f140
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    which oil goes into the old oxford oil welders?


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  • #2
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    You're looking for a Transformer Oil:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_oil

    The ESB likely have tanks full of the stuff :D


  • #3
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Also sold as "Switch Oil"

    Give Gem oils a call, on 049 4378116, I got 5 gallon drum from them a few years back for a Pickhill welder that I have. Expensive stuff, I think I paid about 100 odd euro for the 5 gallons.


  • #4
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭td5man


    Rovi wrote: »
    You're looking for a Transformer Oil:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_oil

    The ESB likely have tanks full of the stuff :D

    They're hanging out of poles though.


  • #5
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭td5man


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Also sold as "Switch Oil"

    Give Gem oils a call, on 049 4378116, I got 5 gallon drum from them a few years back for a Pickhill welder that I have. Expensive stuff, I think I paid about 100 odd euro for the 5 gallons.

    Was there much water in the old oil,the oil has never been changed in the one here might be time to think about changing it before it goes bang.


  • #6
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    It was probably 10 or 15 years old, without ever being changed. About an inch and a half or water/crud/bits or shellac varnish etc in the bottom. Was just about to touch the lowest coils of wire, so lucky escape I thought.
    Whatever about drawing in humidity when cooling down. leaving them out overnight and getting rained on must be a killer. I noticed that this current welder has the top TEX screwed down, whilst the old one it replaced had properly drilled and tapped bolt holes to screw down the top, and a better gasket.


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  • #7
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    td5man wrote: »
    They're hanging out of poles though.

    Just drill out the bottoms like some "people" do to diesel tanks :D


  • #8
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Just drill out the bottoms like some "people" do to diesel tanks :D

    .22, and a tun-dish on the end of a long length of waste pipe.........:D


  • #9
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    .22, and a tun-dish on the end of a long length of waste pipe.........:D

    I like your style :D


  • #10
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭td5man


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Just drill out the bottoms like some "people" do to diesel tanks :D

    Could you plug the mag drill into the transformer, save bringing the gennie.


  • #11
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Lads we better be careful or we are gonna attract the wrath of the mods here ;)


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  • #12
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    td5man wrote: »
    Could you plug the mag drill into the transformer, save bringing the gennie.

    Save the auld back ya mean


  • #13
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Lads we better be careful or we are gonna attract the wrath of the mods here ;)

    Ah sur, we all know they only watch the "Chit-chat" and "Photo" threads. :D


  • #14
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Ah sur, we all know they only watch the "Chit-chat" and "Photo" threads. :D

    Is that the "whoosh" of a hammer I hear falling :D


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