Sperm Oil?

[jdw276]

Ok back to our original question, where do you get jojoba oil?

Walgreens? CVS? Trader Joe's? Wallys?

 

[okawbow]

Walgreens, Walmart, Amazon, etc. has it.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

So it works as a patch lube as well as sperm's whale's oil but not so well in the other things?

 

[Black Hand]

With so many other readily-available materials - why look for the most unavailable? Use Olive oil, Bear grease, lard, Goose grease, Raccoon grease, tallow or any number of others...

 

[necchi]

That is correct.
It's pretty simple,, if Jojoba oil was good at lubricating and protecting metal parts,,
, we would be being marketed with massive commercials and off-shelf labeling about Jojoba oils properties and entire sections of the country would be grow the stuff to supply the market.
Here's the gig dude, for awhile in our country's history Sperm oil was available and cheap,, people bought it.
It became harder to get,, and more expensive, fewer people bought it.
I think they discovered another source for "oil"

 

[coloradoclyde]

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

That photograph is usually used as a backhanded way to call someone stupid.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

I read somewhere that early automatic transmissions used whale oil and that the old fashioned ATF is a similar thing for it's properties. Seems like BS, but I can say from first hand knowledge that slug gun shooters usually use ATF as the lube on their paper cross patching.

 

[Grenadier1758]

I think that Type F for Ford automatic transmissions was the fluid of choice.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Walgreens, Walmart, Amazon, etc. has it.

What departments would it be found in?

 

[okawbow]

Cosmetic dept.

 

[Zonie]

I just Googled Jojoba oil and it seems WalMart has it.

Only $14 for 1/2 cup (4 ounces) of it. :shocked2:

By the way, as I understand it, Sperm oil and Jojoba oil are more like a liquid wax than a oil.

I think that is one of the reasons Sperm oil worked well for watches. It didn't make a really wet area that would catch dust.

A bit more info about sperm oil:

https://www.scran.ac.uk/packs/exhibitions/learning_materials/webs/40/lubricants.htm

 

[Stumpkiller]

I read somewhere that early automatic transmissions used whale oil and that the old fashioned ATF is a similar thing for it's properties. Seems like BS, but I can say from first hand knowledge that slug gun shooters usually use ATF as the lube on their paper cross patching.

Yes, Sperm whale oil was used. But modern AFT fluid isn't necessarily similar; just available.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Mike was right...,

I think that Type F for Ford automatic transmissions was the fluid of choice.

They tried to duplicate the SWO with the synthetic product. They have been reformulating it ever since. Sometimes it's a rust problem, sometimes something else.

I wonder with the freon/puron (sp?) situation, where the old refrigerant had an expired patent, so they went to something "new" (having an enforceable patent)... if that isn't what's going on with all the ATF fluids.

Either way, I would only use ATF or a mix of ATF/STP/Mystery Oil for rust prevention..., not for patch lube. Beeswax and olive oil or simply spit works fine for the patch lube.

LD

 

[coloradoclyde]

I must say, I'm confused at references to whale oil being used in early automatic transmissions, considering how utterly crappy transmissions where back then.

Not sure that's any kind of an endorsement. :haha:

 

[ZUG]

I read somewhere that early automatic transmissions used whale oil and that the old fashioned ATF is a similar thing for it's properties. Seems like BS, but I can say from first hand knowledge that slug gun shooters usually use ATF as the lube on their paper cross patching.

Sperm whale oil was used as an additive in the posi-traction (aka limited-slip) differentials and phased out in the 60's and maybe as late as the early 70's.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Dave, a huge dead whale just washed ashore in Duxbury.....There's your chance... :haha:

 

[jon math]

I have lived and worked in the New Bedford area my whole life. One of my customers is Nye Lubricants a company that started with whale oils and others. I was thinking that their famous “fish jaw” oil might be a substitute for sperm whale oil but when I looked it up it turns out it was made from dolphin and black fish and was discontinued in the 1970’s. When I first started in business almost every mill’s maintenance shop had dusty bottles of whale oil tucked away somewhere, but my interest in BP back then was nil. Now that I have an interest in it the stuff has long since disappeared. I check every yard sale at old properties hoping to find a bottle of the stuff, but that search has proven fruitless.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Even if you found some...then what? Let's say it was the best stuff ever and turned your gun into a tack driver....Eventually that bottle is going to run dry and you're right back where you started.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Cosmetic dept.

Thanks. That's the only department I didn't look in last time I was at Walmart.