Originally Posted By: Shannow
This thread has me chuckling for personal reasons.
Back in the late 90s I commissioned an MDF plant (fibreboard), and there's gazillions of little chain drives on th mat forming station.
Each has a little oiler, and gear oil is specced, but the are becomes a horrid mess. So I switched them to chain and bar (with recommendation from Caltex, who then added it to their list of tricks for other places).
Makes sense, but would be hard (though probably not impossible) to find here, plus chain oil and rust inhibitor are my "disposal" uses for otherwise unusable oils, like the few gallons of Azola hydraulic I don't have any other use for.
Have considered it as a 2-stroke motorcycle gearbox oil, but decided not to risk it.