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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2919333, member: 71723&quot;]Do you consider a detergent agent to be “oil”? I ask because blanks do get washed in a detergent agent. Now one brand-name detergent, Dawn, is claimed to be an oil remover, and my limited experience with it would confirm that. It is also slippery in its own right, and while that may still have a lubricating effect as it is dried, it would be a misnomer to call it oil, per se. Now I’m not suggesting the U.S. Mint washes blanks in Dawn, but maybe they should. Whatever they’re using, it can BOTH have a lubricating effect, as graphite does in an ornery lock, and still not be “oil”. That’s all I’m saying. Yes, good old machine oil IS nearby the striking chamber; it has to be. But any grease or oil that gets on a coin is strictly accidental and takes some time to build up as tiny droplets of real oil come into contact with tiny flecks of metal and create “debris boogers” that can get anywhere, as fast as those presses fling metal around.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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