> Jesse, > > I have so much oil in my cutting fluid that a layer of oil floats to the top > if I leave some in a bowl. I also have a workshop which is remarkably rust > resistant. I was really surprised by this business. > > Regards, Barrie Gee Barrie, I can't understand why the iron dust rusted then. I never oil my mill table and have never had any rust get on it except a couple of times when I had been using perchloroethane as tapping or machining fluid. That of course removed all of the oil from the table surface and I had a reddish cast develop overnight. I usually use lard/sulphur cutting oil for milling and threading, but also use oil emulsion coolant quite a bit. Still no rust has reared its ugly head except in the instance mentioned. As I mostly work in brass for my models, I need no coolant. Jesse the redneck Tennessean MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.