The Aburatsubo, oil applicator

[Silverclaws2]

Don't know if anyone has come across this thing yet and expect a lot have but having recently got one for the application of Camellia oil to my precious carbon steel by the sea to say, I am mightily impressed and being a messy kind I don't get covered in oil

Aburatsubo Oil Applicator​

A well spent tenner ( wasn't quite a tenner, but you get the gist )

 

[stonepark]

Bottle with a felt plug that is soaked in oil, gunsmiths use them quite a bit, nothing for metal and applying oil to stocks.

 

[Mesquite]

I've made a few rag-in-a-can oilers in the past which are pretty effective.

 

[Toddy]

If you unscrew the top of a small roll-on deodorant....and pop out the roller 'ball'...you have a neat wee handheld container with a tidy secure screw on cap.....sometimes available as one of four fill it yourself type bottles for holidays....a £1 a set in B&M's, Home Bargains, Savers, etc., or Temu, Shien and the like.

Not advisable to do it with linseed oil !

M

 

[Silverclaws2]

I've made a few rag-in-a-can oilers in the past which are pretty effective.

Yeah I have done that before when I had a workshop, but this thing that I bought, it comes with me, in that it's my green craft bag to oil my blades before putting them away, to say, I have not yet caught it leaking.

 

[GreyCat]

Don't know if anyone has come across this thing yet and expect a lot have but having recently got one for the application of Camellia oil to my precious carbon steel by the sea to say, I am mightily impressed and being a messy kind I don't get covered in oil

Aburatsubo Oil Applicator​

A well spent tenner ( wasn't quite a tenner, but you get the gist )

Yeah, got one in a "tool care" kit from Nawaki a bit since. Great things, and much easier to oil sharp plades properly without risking slicing the pinkies......

GC

 

[Danceswithhelicopters]

Just went and bought one... Think I will fill it with Ballistol though. Is that culturally wrong to do so?

 

[alphaburner]

Yeah wonder would it be good for applying to gun barrels.

 

[Silverclaws2]

Yeah wonder would it be good for applying to gun barrels.

Perhaps if your knifed a V in the top it could partially wrap the barrel to create more efficient oiling.

Was thinking last night of making something similar of a pen type size for precision oiling

 

[demographic]

Anyone use Renaissance Wax in steel to protect it?
Seems thats what museums use.
Used on metals, wood and other stuff I can't remember.
As far as I can work out its a "Blend of waxes" mixed with a bit of white spirits.
Or mostly microcrystalline wax with some marketting guff and 11 herbs and spices.


Apparently they used to use other waxes but discovered they were mildly acidic.

There's another version I can't remember the name of thats food and toy safe so will have something else instead of white spirit.

 

[Silverclaws2]

Anyone use Renaissance Wax in steel to protect it?
Seems thats what museums use.
Used on metals, wood and other stuff I can't remember.
As far as I can work out its a "Blend of waxes" mixed with a bit of white spirits.
Or mostly microcrystalline wax with some marketting guff and 11 herbs and spices.


Apparently they used to use other waxes but discovered they were mildly acidic.

There's another version I can't remember the name of thats food and toy safe so will have something else instead of white spirit.

Yeah I have used Renaissance wax, I used to use it for protecting brass pin badges I used to make, to say, it pongs, for it has a sort of pervasive white spirit smell about it. The camellia oil am trying out now has no odour that I can smell.