[SGVHAK] Reminder: SGVHAK meeting this Saturday 8/24

[Scoops Adamczyk]

WD-40 is mixture of oil and other solvents. The solvent part can eat up some plastics. And after the solvents dry you don't have much oil left. 3-in-1 is mostly a light oil.
But either of these petroleum-based lubes can hurt petroleum based plastic, so silicone oil is better for that.
Fuser oil is a silicone oil. Some copiers use that so it may be easier to find it by that name, and I see you can get it at Office Depot for instance. Yeow! I see they want $30 a bottle! I happened to have a dispenser of it that was left in our copy room from some old copy machine. I'm not sure how the copy machine uses oil, though.

.  Scoops

On Aug 22, 2013, at 10:07 AM, yoshio <ak209 at lafn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 08:49:51AM -0700, Scoops Adamczyk wrote:
>> Lan, my advice is not to use WD-40 as a lubricant. Try some light oil, like 3-in-1 or even kerosene. Or for plastic, silicone oil. You can use copier "fuser oil". I can bring some on Saturday.
> 
> Why not WD-40?  What is the difference between the 3-in-1 and WD-40?
> What brand names does silicone oil sell under?  Where on a copier
> do you use fuser oil, and what brand names does that sell under?
>