Vanishing Oil

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Vanishing Oils are lubricants based on a volatile component (solvent) and additives to give lubrication properties.

The solvent component have traditionally been odourless kerosene which give a non-flammable labelled product with slow drying or white spirit / distillate which gives a faster drying but flammable labelled product. The lubricant additives traditionally included such additives as vegetable oils for lubricity, chlorinated paraffin's for extreme pressure performance and perhaps additives to enhance corrosion inhibition. Most lubricant suppliers have these traditional type vanishing oils.

However with the requirements of the manufacturing sector becoming more challenging the old technology vanishing oils have been superseded by advanced vanishing oils.

Advanced Technology vanishing oil are designed with the following features:-

	Zero or very low odour
	Zero residues
	Dry residues
	Suitable for high speed machines up to 800spm
	No sticky / gummy deposits
	Easy removal by thermal or normal degreasing
	non-VOC water-based
	Super high performance

Advanced vanishing oils are supplied by the following companies and available in the UK. John Neale Ltd, QSCD. Most other suppliers of advanced vanishing oils are German or USA based, a good German supplier is Wilke lubricants.

A new development in vanishing oils is the use of thermally degreasing additives to give lubricants which can be degreased with heat. These are useful where a powder coating or paint process using a heat cure follows pressing. It allows for components not to be degreased prior to the painting operation with the lubricant residue evapourating in the curing oven with no adverse effect on the paint. These lubricants can be used with enamelling steels, and other mild steels and steel alloys.

Information below is from the www.johnnealeltd.co.uk website.

High Speed Pressing Synthetic Vanishing Lubricants

We supply synthetic solvent based bespoke vanishing oil solutions to customers for high speed press work up to 2000strokes per minute

	Evaporation rate is selected for the application hence 40 and 60 notation.
	Performance light to medium for zero residue to very high for dry film residue.
	Residue levels from zero to a corrosion inhibiting fine film
	Very low odour synthetic products based on special hydrocarbon base fluids
	RoHS compliant lubricants.
	Suitable for copper, aluminium alloy electrical contacts.
	Suitable for copper, aluminium, magnesium and titanium alloys.
	Piercing, blanking, punching, forming applications.

Vanishing Oil SE40, 60

specially developed fast evaporating 40 and 63 Deg C flashpoint, totally dry film vanishing oil based on low odour high technology synthetic based stocks

Vanishing Oil JN40, 60

	High performance synthetic vanishing oil with high levels of advanced chlorine free dry residue lubricity additives
	JN60 non-flammable labelled low odour base solvent but still with good evaporation rate.
	None dust attracting residue

Vanishing Oil JK40, 60

	Specially design saturated synthetic lubricity package to give advanced performance and stability in the fastest presses.
	100% saturated synthetic technology gives fantastic staility to gumming, varnishing and deposits.

New Technology Water-Based Vanishing Oils

Recent developments in aqueous polymer technology has allowed us to develop advanced vanishing oils with significant benefits over traditional solvent based lubricants. These lubricants have the following characteristics and benefits:

	Advanced polymer technology
	Suitable for forming, piercing, blanking, bending, nibbling, laser cutting etc on all metals both
	non-ferrous and ferrous alloys.
	Fast drying time due to rapid evaporation rate – see graph
	non-VOC as it contains no 'solvents'

	Weld-able, can be welded through with no adverse fumes and anti-spatter performance
	Water rinse-able, can be simply washed off with water
	High performance,

a. Aluminium (+alloys) 1mm-3mm

b. Zintec 1mm-3mm

c. Stainless (304, 316, etc) 1mm-3mm

d. Mild steel (Hot Rolled (HR4) , S355 (50B)) 1mm-6mm

	SED advantages
	No hazard labelling
	Clean in use due to absence of oily residues
	Excellent corrosion protection.

See technical data sheets:-

Vanishing Oil AQ10:- High performance vanishing oil for the majority of applications

Vanishing Oil AQ20:- Very high performance for difficult operations where vanishing oils are not normally used.

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Last modified: 04/27/10