Oil/diesel mix sprayer.

[Drillman]

We like to give everything a light coating of oil/diesel when putting it away for winter to keep moisture off and the paint protected etc. currently using a a spray gun off the airline but having discovered cordless tools and got various Milwaukee things on farm I was wondering if anyone has suggestions of a spray gun that matches the existing Milwaukee batteries For the job?

 

[Sausage]

Why not use one of those bottles you pressurise by hand and it sprays it out, seem good for this sort of thing.

 

[Nearly]

but should you use red or white diesel?

 

[Drillman]

but should you use red or white diesel?

Cherry it’s cheaper

 

[Brisel]

Why not use one of those bottles you pressurise by hand and it sprays it out, seem good for this sort of thing.

I use a bottle bought at a garden centre with a hand pump for applying diesel after cleaning and drying. A much cheaper solution!

 

[David.]

An old WW2 styrup pump took some beating.
I see there are some carefully worded adverts for airless sprayers "suitable for Makita batteries". How well they would cope with diesel and hydraulic oil remains to be seen.

 

[Chae1]

I use a paraffin gun off compressor.

Nothing like planning ahead!

 

[deleted user 837354]

There has to be something better than diesel and oil mixed for this job?

 

[David.]

But it works.

 

[deleted user 837354]

But it works.

But surely it will attack rubber or similar materials in time, not to mention attracting dust and grime? There must be a better solution.

 

[Welderloon]

One of my customers uses a B&Q fence sprayer, electric plug in thing, seems to get on fine with it.
He did blink a couple of times when I explained pressurising diesel probably wasn't the smartest thing to be doing while reminding him how his tractor engine worked nor covering hydrocarbon derived items like plastic & cables with hydrocarbons then leaving them exposed to U.V for months on end but hey-ho, he's happy.

 

[Drillman]

But surely it will attack rubber or similar materials in time, not to mention attracting dust and grime? There must be a better solution.

Dust and grime sticks but a bit of TFR annually and a wash off and it keeps the paint underneath nice

 

[Brisel]

One of my customers uses a B&Q fence sprayer, electric plug in thing, seems to get on fine with it.
He did blink a couple of times when I explained pressurising diesel probably wasn't the smartest thing to be doing while reminding him how his tractor engine worked nor covering hydrocarbon derived items like plastic & cables with hydrocarbons then leaving them exposed to U.V for months on end but hey-ho, he's happy.

Humour me please. What does oil/diesel do to plastics & rubber? I doubt it's much good.

 

[Welderloon]

Diesel degrades rubber - makes it swell then makes it brittle - Diesel fuel system O-rings are a perfect example.
Oil/Diesel will degrade some plastics in that they are the same family so may soften them or harden them & therefore weaken them more so if U.V's ( Sunlight) involved - bit like thinners/white spirit on paint - increases the break down of the composition.

Its strange because Hyd oil always brings up the old LR Defender wing extensions perfectly

 

[Petebog]

We like to give everything a light coating of oil/diesel when putting it away for winter to keep moisture off and the paint protected etc. currently using a a spray gun off the airline but having discovered cordless tools and got various Milwaukee things on farm I was wondering if anyone has suggestions of a spray gun that matches the existing Milwaukee batteries For the job?

I use a Aqua systems knapsack sprayer from homebase. Use it to oil shuttering and anything. Works really well, had it 4-5 years now and only changed the hose