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With all the great minds and tinkering hearts on this forum someone must have done some lubrication friction testing. ?????
I bought a tube of Quick Release oil as I had read some good reviews. It worked pretty well. I also have Nano oil that I have used for nearly a year. I have also used Sentry Solutions Tuf-Glide. Mineral oil.... I also have some Finishline Extreme fluoro something or other lub. Also used some Sentry Solutions BP2000 (like a carbon powder based lube). In years past 3 in 1 and WD40.
I think I have read all of the knife lubrication posts.
And what I have found are lots and lots of opinions. Nano Oil IS THE BEST..... NO ITS SNAKE OIL. I only use Frog Lube. Mineral Oil is all you will ever need and all these lube are just fancy mineral oil...... Sound Familiar?
I would like to use the best lube for the contact point of the detent ball with the steel blade tang. That is all I care about. My opinion, is if you have any sort of bearings, the detent ball is controlling the action once the ball has left the hole.
Anyone disagree with that point?
It ought to be easy to do some comparison testing. I am imagining a steel plate with a 600 finish ( you could try this test with 1000 finish, 2000, 4000, polished). Then in a bar of steel about the same weight as a 3-4" blade put 3 detent ball holes. Press 3 SS or Ceramic (two test series) into the holes. Three so that the test bar is supported by the balls.
Drill one detent hole in the steel plate.
Clean balls and plate well.
Lift plate up 5 degrees. lift bar till ball in hole is released. Does it slide. if not try 10 degrees. Continue till it starts to slide. If I remember my physics class there are two friction factors. One is the first start of movement and the other is to continue movement. We probably are interested in the larger force associated with the initial movement.
Record angle.
Repeat with one of the lubes.
Record angle,
Clean
Repeat with another lube
And so on.
lowest angle wins
Would that work.... I may have the material to try this.
I bought a tube of Quick Release oil as I had read some good reviews. It worked pretty well. I also have Nano oil that I have used for nearly a year. I have also used Sentry Solutions Tuf-Glide. Mineral oil.... I also have some Finishline Extreme fluoro something or other lub. Also used some Sentry Solutions BP2000 (like a carbon powder based lube). In years past 3 in 1 and WD40.
I think I have read all of the knife lubrication posts.
And what I have found are lots and lots of opinions. Nano Oil IS THE BEST..... NO ITS SNAKE OIL. I only use Frog Lube. Mineral Oil is all you will ever need and all these lube are just fancy mineral oil...... Sound Familiar?
I would like to use the best lube for the contact point of the detent ball with the steel blade tang. That is all I care about. My opinion, is if you have any sort of bearings, the detent ball is controlling the action once the ball has left the hole.
Anyone disagree with that point?
It ought to be easy to do some comparison testing. I am imagining a steel plate with a 600 finish ( you could try this test with 1000 finish, 2000, 4000, polished). Then in a bar of steel about the same weight as a 3-4" blade put 3 detent ball holes. Press 3 SS or Ceramic (two test series) into the holes. Three so that the test bar is supported by the balls.
Drill one detent hole in the steel plate.
Clean balls and plate well.
Lift plate up 5 degrees. lift bar till ball in hole is released. Does it slide. if not try 10 degrees. Continue till it starts to slide. If I remember my physics class there are two friction factors. One is the first start of movement and the other is to continue movement. We probably are interested in the larger force associated with the initial movement.
Record angle.
Repeat with one of the lubes.
Record angle,
Clean
Repeat with another lube
And so on.
lowest angle wins
Would that work.... I may have the material to try this.