09-13-2011, 06:02 AM
JoeH wrote:
[quote=Chakravartin]
[quote=Sam3]
Vegetable oil. Specifically Canola oil / soybean oil.
That's just Fellowes.
Everybody else uses mineral oil. Some of them add a bit of Naphthalene to the oil. (Don't add napthaline to your mineral oil.)
I'd avoid vegetable-based oils as they are prone to denaturing and gumming up the works.
It is not just Fellowes. There are a number of other brands of shredder lubricants that are based on vegetable oils or a mix of vegetable and mineral oil.
Don't use vegetable oil.
Mineral oil is cheap and reliable and doesn't gunk up.