Hello, first post on the forum, although I've been watching it for years from the sidelines. There are certainly a lot of smart people here and I'm hoping somebody can help me out with an industrial application. Googling seems to lead me in circles.
Essentially I'm in need of an oil or even possibly a grease, but I would prefer an oil, for a very high temperature application. I have press that is a very simple manual device. It's just a cast iron body that has a steel piston riding through its body. The body of the press which is cast iron has a heating element in it. The body of the press gets very hot, in excess of 500° Fahrenheit. The ram which does nothing more than impress logos with a small steel stamp, typically gets around 250° to 275° f. Almost every oil and grease that I've tried even mobile One synthetic smokes around 500°. This is a very low speed application. It's operated by my foot. But it's in open air, It sits on a workbench in an industrial environment. I can't have something smoking all day creating smoke in the workplace. Does anybody have any idea what kind of lubricant I could use to lubricate the ram inside of the body so the metal doesn't wear on each other? I don't want to use things like graphite because they actually seem to insulate the heat away from the ram, whereas I still want heat to conduct but I can't have the things smoking all day. This is the kind of thing that I would take a dab of oil on my finger lubricate the ram, and it would be good for a couple days worth of use. Imagine a heated arbor press and that's essentially what it is. Except the ram is not square, it's a round steel ram inside of a cast iron body. In small quantities like a quart or a gallon? I mean a quart would probably last me 2 years. Thank you for your help
Essentially I'm in need of an oil or even possibly a grease, but I would prefer an oil, for a very high temperature application. I have press that is a very simple manual device. It's just a cast iron body that has a steel piston riding through its body. The body of the press which is cast iron has a heating element in it. The body of the press gets very hot, in excess of 500° Fahrenheit. The ram which does nothing more than impress logos with a small steel stamp, typically gets around 250° to 275° f. Almost every oil and grease that I've tried even mobile One synthetic smokes around 500°. This is a very low speed application. It's operated by my foot. But it's in open air, It sits on a workbench in an industrial environment. I can't have something smoking all day creating smoke in the workplace. Does anybody have any idea what kind of lubricant I could use to lubricate the ram inside of the body so the metal doesn't wear on each other? I don't want to use things like graphite because they actually seem to insulate the heat away from the ram, whereas I still want heat to conduct but I can't have the things smoking all day. This is the kind of thing that I would take a dab of oil on my finger lubricate the ram, and it would be good for a couple days worth of use. Imagine a heated arbor press and that's essentially what it is. Except the ram is not square, it's a round steel ram inside of a cast iron body. In small quantities like a quart or a gallon? I mean a quart would probably last me 2 years. Thank you for your help
