Ultimox 226 and compressors

MACTEN

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Just an FYI. Rebuilding my little Benjamin traveler 2 and decided to use a tiny bit of the Ultimox 226 on the piston rings. Well.. It's drawing about 2 amps less than before on a 150-300 bar fill and although I haven't tried to time it.. It's filling more quickly hands down that it did when it was new. After I put a tiny amount on the rings (after having cleaned them with alcohol) I turned the machine on without load and ran it for 10 minutes. Turned it off and put 2 drops of silicone oil in the correct oil hole and fired it up. This is an ongoing test but it looks pretty good so far. The idea of running the machine for 10 minutes without load was to try to imbed the ultimox into the cylinder walls. Yes the grease is expensive but the amount I used is so small it doesn't matter.
 
If there is dyno oil / grease anywhere .. crankcase, bearings etc ... they WILL find one another and create a quagmire.

Just an FYI ... good luck.
Thanks for the input! Pretty sure these are clear as it's you know, an HPA compressor, that aren't supposed to have any petrolium products in them. And I cleaned everything either way very well. . The lube I have in the gearbox is 100% synthetic as well. If I was to put it in an engine that runs on gasoline and has petroleum products in it commonly, unlike high pressure compressors, I'll head your warning.
 
From my research, I've come to understand that it is not so much that the chemistries don't "play well" together, as it is a warning that any contamination by "less superior" lubes will degrade the benefits of using Krytox. Krytox lubes are very stable and don't react with very many substances.
Funny.. I just left a post or your post while you were doing the same.
 
If there is dyno oil / grease anywhere .. crankcase, bearings etc ... they WILL find one another and create a quagmire.

Just an FYI ... good luck.

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