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I stopped using cutting fluid with my bandsaw a few years ago. I was complaining about the mess it made, and if any of the guys in the machine shop knew of a better fluid, one that was easier to clean off of concrete. A older machinist said that he hadn’t used fluid of any sort in years, except in the CNC because a previous shop he was at used a wax stick for material rough cutting. He had made the jump and hadn’t regretted it. I tried it out, skeptical, but lo and behold it worked great. A little bit of non-peer review testing over the years has shown me that the band saw blades last just as long with the wax stick or the cutting fluid. I use the stick on my stationary bandsaw as well as my portable, handheld bandsaws. Works great.
I have tried a couple, but the Castrol 140 Stick-Wax works the best.
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