15 Nov
2005
15 Nov
'05
12:37 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:56:35 +0100, Marvin Johnston <marvin at rain.org>
wrote:
A much better alternative to peanut oil is fusing or reflow oil used in
the printed circuit industry (used most probably in the smaller shops.)
It runs $84.30/gallon according to information on the DalPro website.
While they seem to have the supplies necessary to make PCBs, their
prices are ... high. I would try a local printed circuit manufacturer to
see if I could get some their first. My guess is that it shouldn't be
more than about $8.00/gallon.
http://www.dalpro.net/Page.html
BTW, peanut oil used to be used for reflow many many moons ago and was
replaced at least 25 years ago with synthetic oils.
At those prices I would rather try ricinus oil. It does not even burn in
the cylinder when you use it as lubrication for high performance
two-stroke engines.
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