What type of oil for my lathe? Practical Machinist
Jun 09, 2011· Or in a bigger pinch use ATF and suffer with the red dye. Any oil is better than no oil but it''s best to use the reccommended lubricant or its modern equivelent from a cross reference list. The requirements aren''t critical and the machine won''t explode if you don''t get the perfect match. Oil wars have raged pn PM in threads long as 80 responses.