I have a Feeler lathe and it calls for type A ATF in the carriage gear box & clutches. What is the equivalent oil for Type A or what should I be using. Can't find type A anywhere. I tried the search but couldn't come up with anything.
Thanks, Ken
One wonders if it is a "standard" of the Chinese Gummint via China Petrochemical Corporation (Chinese: 中国石油化工集团公司) or Sinopec Group?
The Chinese do tend to try to minimize variety and flavour vs Dexron, Mercon, BMW-ATF1, Pentosyn, vs ZF Lifeguard, Castrol-whatever, etc. for what is essentially the same damned ZF box, "managed" differently by the 'puters.
Shell is one among the "usual suspects" of global petro firms that publish pretty good cross-refs.
At the US auto parts outlets, the earliest and simplest juice with fewest of the modern exotic modifiers may be the best match. Perhaps even El Cheapo power steering fluid?
"Early" differences, IIRC, were mostly about compatibility with seals. Latest of juices includes "traction fluid" for certain CVT's.
I'd have thought a lathe would get by with a straight-graded non-detergent "turbine" oil, or hydraulic oil - much as the Hardinge clan and others seem to do - Mobile DTE family, Shell Tellus, or the like.
On-edit - John was typing. And of an era when many of our clan still drove stick-shifts, didn't have to know, so..
