hey everybody adam savage i am here in my cave with a little bit of a revisit to a tool tip
that is also that is kind of a show-and-tell okay a few weeks ago i talked about sorry
where was i a few weeks ago i talked about this stuff molly d um molybdenum
dice molybdenum disulfide tapping fluid um i had picked up this bottle simply because
jamie heinemann had an ancient bottle of this in his shop and i always loved the ad copy
which includes the phrases a wear resisting life prolonging fluid film rich in oilness and ever
present cushion of lubricity the finest machining assistant yet devised by nature and the skill of
man i always have to use that tone of voice when i read that ad copy uh since then i actually ordered
do i have it in here yes molly t is still being made it is still being made here it is
it's molly d is owned by castrol now and vario cut c is the same stuff so i cleaned this out
filled it full of this now i'm using my molle d tapping fluid it is
it's not just an example of ad copy i love it is also also useful here in the cave why am i
talking about it again though well it is because of a sweet letter i got from alan schenbacher uh
he is a fan that said adam recently did a favorite tools on molly d tapping fluid i'm sending you the
special sauce of molly d molybdenite the most common ore of molybdenum um you could use it
to make a small batch of artisanal tapping fluid could there be anything more san francisco than
me making my own artisanal molybdenum disulfide uh tapping fluid um
i am going to open up this and take a look at it i did a little research into uh this stuff
it is exposure uh overexposure is rare uh i'm not that nervous about it uh from an aerosolized
standpoint uh so i'm just gonna open it and kind of just take a look at what this stuff looks like
in its natural form it's a very gray like opaque gray tapping fluid oh it's a very fine powder
uh and this comes from let's see here he's written on the bottle another product from
the land of enchantment and then he writes get your lubricity on
get get your lubricity on melinda
i'm saying molybdenum disulfide i think the disulfide i'm adding
unnecessarily molybdenite mos2 molycorp mine questa new mexico that's where this comes from
and uh yeah i'll get some b-roll of this you can take a look at it
here wow it is like almost like graphite in its fineness which means i am not going to
mess with it too much because a fine powder can become aerosolized quite easily
it is doesn't feel gritty in the gloves it i mean it's very very yeah super powdery you
can actually see it on the tip of my finger there yeah um that's it i just thought that was a cool
thing for someone to send me in the mail i'm gonna store this right next to my molly d tapping fluid
uh here in the oils uh container um alan thank you very much i really appreciate the fine gift and uh
you know me well this is precisely the kind of thing i like adding to my collection thank you
guys for joining me for this very quick show and tell stay safe and i will see you next time cheers