All-Purpose Metalworking Compound 16oz - Water-Based Cutting Fluid for Drilling, Tapping, Sawing - Great on Stainless Steel | No Oil

Everything this lube promises, it delivers. Cutters, and bits stay cool, no lubricant flying around. Amazing, wish I found this year's ago. It's a game changer in fabrication.

This stuff is awesome!! That is why I keep buying it!

A little bit goes a long way. I drilled 3/4" holes through a 3/8" plate and a 1/2" plate, and I didn't see smoke, no discoloration, just smooth cutting off the hole.The liquid cutting fluid I usually use smokes and smells bad, and I have to reapply it 5 or 6 times during the drilling.This anchorlube is a great find! I will buy again.

I'm not a cool kid on any tube nor any block and I have never and will never take anything for any of my reviews, they are always 100% honest and legit. You'ld be amazed at some of my 1 star reviews that never get published. Me thinks the sellers approve the reviews not independent amazonians. But what do I know?So I'm just a tinkerer. Always throwing crap together that just works or fixin stuff.So from that perspective, this stuff is the shiznitz. I have all kinds of cutting oil, all kinds of tap magic, including the kind for aluminum. And sometimes nothing at all, e.g. working with copper, copper is gummy, in a league of it's own, I just do it dry and use forming taps. Just kinda push it out of the way. Much prefer zinc, and red or yellow brass. My favorite tap magic for steels has been the extra thick. Not anymore.Forget the hype, just get some and try it. I like how it clings. Don't water it down, let it cling. Clings like tap magic extra thick, even better.I was having a difficult time taping a certain piece of stainless steel. I could drill it just fine with just some normal tap magic or extra thick, my taps (multiple) weren't cutting it. Literally. Including two new ones I just bought from mcmaster carr (my heros) so they are good, very good. I don't think this particular stainless was good mind you, probably just the opposite. Not like other stainless I have drilled and tapped. Good taps just didn't like to cut it dry or with tap magic. Then I tried this stuff. WOW what a diference. Perfect 1/4 NPT taped hole. So piece was locked in a vice in the micromark, drilled the hole, slow speed and feed great big long corkscrew shaving then chucked the tap for absolute perfect alignment, started tap by hand turning the chuck then took out of mill vice and used T handle and bench vise. Done that a bunch of times with other stuff and other size holes and never a problem. Purr Fect every time. Only difference was this particular stainless steel item.:shruggs shouldersThis water based goop simply worked when tap magic didn't. I haven't tried it on other materials I just know it worked on this air quote 304 made in China part when others didn't.

Spend a few dollars on cutting fluid, not hundreds on your tooling!If you've ever worked with stainless, you know it's truly a pain. This cutting fluid allows one to drill and tap the material as if it was cold rolled stock.Fantastic product!

Cut smooth pulls heat out of the chip

All the cool kids on YouTube use this, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Maybe I'd finally be allowed to sit at the cool kids table. Long story short, it's ok. It's a water and soap based product, similar to Westlube. You frequently see the YouTube home machinists just squirt big globs onto the material they're working on, which is a huge waste. I suspect that some of these guys are getting free product in exchange for the product placement in their vids. And besides the waste of an expensive product, putting too much of this product on the workpiece will result in a huge mess on your work and on your clothing. Contrary to some opinions, a drill bit or end mill will sling this goopy gel all over your shop, never mind what your lathe will do if you apply too much onto a spinning work piece. Fortunately, it does not stain like oil, and washes right out of my work shirts.What I do is dilute it slightly with water, and put that into a secondary container, and apply with an acid/flux brush. This helps cut down waste, and keeps the Anchor Lube off the front of my shirts. Bottom line: quite a bit more expensive than traditional cutting oil. At 22 bucks a pint, it's about 2.5 time more expensive than the cutting oil I get at the hardware store across the street from my shop. If I were getting it from the manufacturer, I might be more liberal with it, but as a retired hobbyist, every dollar out of my pocket is a dollar that won't be spent on tooling or materials. So, I may not be sitting at the cool kids table, but I'm used to that by now.

If your having tool life problems turning stainless steel use this product. I’m brushing small amounts on and getting a great finish and long long tool life. Helps almos t unbelievable with cutoff tool.