Hi everyone
What is a reasonable oil rate for air tools?
Reason for asking is - my T-shirts become black with oil from tool exhaust.
When you see a bottle of air tool oil it says something like "put 5 drips of oil down the tool's air hose every day".
The oilers are set for a drip every 10 seconds - that's about 2800 drips a day!
(Get to a drip every 5seconds and you start seeing visible runs of oil out of the tool - but have been told one tool manufacturer recommended this rate!)
Tools are big two-handed die-grinders, using "finger stones" about
25mm dia, if you wanted to know (also have angle-grinders, but these much-less usage time)Even if the tools lasted half as long (these tools last at least a decade on two-shift, 16hr-a-day operation) you'd want to avoid having so much oil on you.
???
Richard Smith