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Thread: With what do you oil your wick?
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7th July 2012, 09:12 AM #31
Let's just agree that some people speak English and others speak American so could we get out of the chemist/drugstore and get this thread back on topic please?
With what do you oil your wick?
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7th July 2012, 01:10 PM #32
I wonder if anyone has ever found a situation in which waxing/lubricating a plane was a negative.
I spent quite a lot of time as I was accumulating different planes testing and hopefully improving them ... just trying them on different pieces held in the vice.
Sometimes if I tried some candlewax, it seemed to decrease the feedback and the plane swished across too easily ... a bit unsatisfyingly.
Just me?
Paul
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7th July 2012, 06:26 PM #33
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7th July 2012, 08:58 PM #34Jim
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8th July 2012, 06:46 AM #35
Dunno about "energy".
... in fact dunno about "youth" either.
It was just 400mm or so pieces held in the vice, so maybe different over a table-top, but instead of "shhhhhhhhhiiiiiiik" all you had was "ssssweee" which I found somewhat unnerving.
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8th July 2012, 10:59 PM #36
Hi Paul, I have only ever considered that it could be a negative when jointing boards for things like table tops, or extension table tops and leaves. Where you need a perfect joint and the last thing you need is a barrier of oil or wax to hold back the glue.
I use a oil wick for my planes and on my cast iron machine tops. The main one I use is just a baked bean tin with a roll of felt packed in with just 10 mm sticking out the top, Paraffin oil poured on top every year or two. It’s not covered, and I shake of the dust and scrape off the rest and give things a wipe, it leaves a tiny amount on the surface and if the right amount is coming out I can just see a colour change in the dry cast iron. If I was jointing table tops I would also give a wipe with a dry cloth.
What amazes me is how long it keeps working for. I did up a nice old Wadkin table saw and once I got the fence working gave it a rub over with the Paraffin , from then on the fence was going left and right with one finger for about seven months before I needed to do it again.
Cheers Rob
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10th July 2012, 05:33 PM #37
anyhow, candle wax (USA paraffin) is what I use on my plane soles. it works very well.
Last edited by Big Shed; 10th July 2012 at 05:44 PM. Reason: Please stay on topic
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10th July 2012, 05:39 PM #38