ArlyA
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Good smell = good marketing.
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I do know that my air tools run excellent on a shot of it regularly.
ATF, or hydraulic oil also work well.
They blow it right out, so it's more about quantity, than quality.
Perhaps.
Their are products like Blaster, I will not ever use, due to the smell.
But, most don't seem to find it offensive.
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Yes and no. If I take them apart (which I do regularly), there never is any buildup on the carbon vanes that power them. You have to have a lubricating coating in them or they won't rotate.
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I have found PB Blaster to smell bad but I do use it. Smells like moth balls.
The reason they put "Oil Daily", on tools, was because as I said, it blows right out.
My first retirement job, was rebuilding pneumatic tools.
I learned from a master for six years. I have rebuilt many hundreds of tools, of all different kinds.
The biggest reason for buildup inside a tool, is the quality of your air supply. Lots of shops have old compressors, with old corroded plumbing, sucking in dirty air, and blowing all that crap through their tools.
Most customers were large facilities which we did work for every week, so we knew what they had as far as air systems. We saw the difference when we disassembled tools. Those had a quality air system, and ran filters on their tools, did not have the kind of wear on their air motor end plates, you saw from those who didn't.
We were changing the screens in the inlet filters, so we could tell who was doing as we suggested, and who wasn't. A high volume 40+ cfm air tool can clog an inlet screen real fast, if there isn't a good clean supply of air going to it. Sometimes a grinder would come back after being serviced, with the inlet filter clogged right back up.
Just running a tool with clean dry air, doesn't not cause the scarring that requires the end plates to be replaced. Veins and bearings will wear faster, but most tools will run just fine dry, until the bearings wear out. But, that takes a while.
Some tools today, are built with greased bearings, and stamped "oil less".
Most of my life prior to that, was spent doing automotive paint work. We had to avoid oiling our tools, to keep from contaminating the jobs. They still lasted until the rest of the tool was well worn, and it was ready to be replaced anyway.