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					 Engineering - Information Tables - Drilling Lubricants
		  
            
              | Material | Cutting
                Lubricant |  
              | Aluminium
                & Magnesium alloys | Soluble
                oil or neat cutting oil |  
              | Cast
                Iron | Dry |  
              | Copper,
                brass or bronze | Soluble
                oil or dry |  
              | Mild
                steel, alloy steel, steel forgings, wrought iron & monel
                metal | Soluble
                oil or sulpherised oil |  
              | Stainless
                steel | Tallow,
                turpentine, soluble oil or sulpherised oil |  | 
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