How to Get Tungsten Disulfide to Stick
- 1). Clean the part with a rag to get all of the grease off.
- 2). Mix the tungsten disulfide powder with rubbing alcohol in a small glass jar. Start by pouring in just a small amount of alcohol and mixing thoroughly with a spoon. Keep pouring more alcohol until you have a grey paste.
- 3). Spread the paste onto the part and the buffing wheel. Allow them some time to dry thoroughly.
- 4). Turn on the wheel and press the part up against it, turning the part and buffing it until the part is coated a grey color.
- 1). Clean the part with a rag to get all of the grease off.
- 2). Put several of your small parts or bullets into the empty aspirin bottle.
- 3). Fill the bottle three-quarters of the way up with tungsten disulfide.
- 4). Place the bottle in the tumbler. Turn the tumbler on for approximately five hours.
- 1). Clean the part with a rag to get all of the grease off.
- 2). Mix some tungsten disulfide in with fresh lubrication, oil or grease.
- 3). Grease the part, change the oil oar and apply the new lubrication. The tungsten disulfide will slowly coat the parts as the lubrication moves through the machinery.
- 1). Clean the part with a rag to get all of the grease off.
- 2). Blast the part with a light layer of aluminum oxide.
- 3). Clean the part off with a clean soft cloth so there is no trace of aluminum oxide powder.
- 4). Set the sand blaster to 120 PSI and to cold pneumatic air. Blast the tungsten disulfide onto the part until the part becomes a silver-grey color.
- 5). Clean the excess tungsten disulfide dust off with another clean cloth. Do not rub too hard or you will remove the powder.