Well I went and picked up the stock sale ISO 46 hydrualic oil the other day and mixed some 50/50 with kero to try as cutting oil and of course put it up against the ATF/Kero mix to see if there was a difference,(using old Dextron III which is the same viscosity over -20C to 100C as ISO 46), the ATF mix was slightly better.
I had a bottle of Morey's Heavey Duty Oil Styabiliser out and thought I'd add a couple of drops to the Kero/hydrualic mix to see what happened.
A big improvement is what happened which led to a late dinner.
The final mix I came up with was equal parts of Kero, ATF and hydrualic oil by volume and then add 6% Morey's. Why 6%? well by the time I'd finished mucking around that's what it turned out at. I usually only use 5% in auto trannys and 10% in engines, manual trans and diffs.
I'm now wondering what Morey's feul additive will do??
This new mix spread nearly 50% greater than Kero/ATF overnight which really suprised me. There is very little difference between the hydrualic oil I am using and ATF as anyone with farm equipment can tell you but somehow the seem to enhance the penitration of each other.
I'd be interested to see if anyone else has the same results. It's certainly cheap and not to volitile and most people will have the ingredients knocking about.
- Barry.