Rich,
richhotrainAgain, why not call Nano Oil directly and discuss your concerns?
I just left a message at the Nano Oil phone number. Hopefully he will get back to me so I can present his point of view. Also, hopefully he won't sue me!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critter Rich, richhotrain Again, why not call Nano Oil directly and discuss your concerns? I just left a message at the Nano Oil phone number. Hopefully he will get back to me so I can present his point of view. Also, hopefully he won't sue me! Dave
richhotrain Again, why not call Nano Oil directly and discuss your concerns?
His bigger concern ought to be that you won't sue him!
Rich
Alton Junction
Joe:
JoeinPAdeclares in Red Letters that it is compatible with all plastics.
I discovered that there are two Nano Oil websites. I just read through one Nano Oil website a couple of times and the statement that it is compatible with all plastics doesn't appear there, at least I couldn't find it.
EDIT: Both are part of the same site. Senior's moment.
http://nano-oil.com/
There is only one reference to "model railroad" that I could find and it is on the second page under the applications listed for the 10 wt. oil.
The website you linked to does indeed state that it is compatible with all plastics so there is some confusion between the two sites.
http://www.nano-oil.com/Model%20RailRoad.html
I wonder which is the most recent site. I couldn't see a date on either.
This was the citation I was referring to: http://www.nano-oil.com/Model%20RailRoad.html. I think it still quotes a more universal compatibility.
Joe
EDIT: Since there may be 2 different web versions I hope that we can hear from the Nano Oil person to clear this up
Hi Joe,
Please have a look back at my previous post. I edited it because I realized that we were looking at two different websites. The one I have been looking at doesn't contain the Model Railroad section.
Edit: I was wrong, they are both part of the same site.
Dave,
Looking at the links you posted, it looks to me like there is only ONE website. Not two.
One is the home page of the website. The other is an internal page of the same website.
Note that "nano-oil.com" is in all the links. Thus one website.
Ed
Ed:
You are right! I must have been having a senior's moment when I was looking at the main site because I totally missed the 'Model Railroad' header.
Sorry to cause more confusion. I'll edit the posts.
Thanks Dave. OK, I am here now, does anyone have any questions?
Geoff
Other than styrene have you found any other plastics that are degraded by Nano Oil?
Joe, I only have two types of plastic used in my BullAnt drives, Acetal, otherwise known as Delrin, and Polystyrene, in this case High Impact Polystyrene. So those were the only types I tested.
The Acetal was not affected, it sat in the oil for many weeks with no effect, but the polystyrene was softened by the oil in less than a week. It became like cheese and broke apart in my hands.
The damage caused the electrical pickup mounting bolster to fail on every model I had lubricated with the Nano Oil, so I had to recall every one of them and replace the affected bolster. Also, I was selling the oil, so I also felt obliged to contact the purchasers and offer to buy it back. However I had not sold that many tubes of the oil and only 11 customers took up my offer.
Thanks Geoff. Sorry to hear about your misfortune. It appears that Nano Oil is OK to use as long as it doesn't come in contact with polystyrene parts.
Yes thanks Geoff and Dave, an interesting observation, and your move to recall your product to correct a problem is admirable.
I have been very satisfied with Nano-oil and will continue to use it, but I will be cautious concerning application to Polystrene.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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Geoff,
Thanks for responding to the thread.
I use Nano oil strictly for my brass locomotive drives that do not have any plastic gears, just fiber or brass/metal gearing. I have Labelle plastic compatible oil for around can motors or other plastic/near to plastic areas. Mike
Silly NT's, I have Asperger's Syndrome