I ordered this today. You are right about small quantities. I would likely never use 1 gallon much less 5 gallons so why let my money sit in the corner of my shop gathering dust.
Mobil SHC 630 Circulating ISO 220 1qt
Holy crap... I don't know this one, I hadda go look. That is top shelf. A quart of that is still priced better than a gallon of line wash... You're smiling from every direction.
BTW what does the ISO 220 mean? I understand 10 wt 20wt 30 wt etc but the ISO stuff throws me for a loop.
It's very closely related to the kinematic viscosity(centistokes, or cst) at 40c. Just like the SAE system, modern oils have blown that outdated system right out of the water. You think ISO is hard to wrap your head around, try SAE 5W-30. The kinematic viscosity of that is all over the map, but the dynamic viscosity, or the high temperature, high shear viscosity (actual in use behavior), those viscosities goes all the way from water to rear diff oil, literally on both ends, on what we used to call a "light" oil. And I doubt the rules are gonna change soon, because there's no one left in the US making chisels good enough to carve a new hirogliph in their cave to tell the workers how to test to any standard that applies to modern oils or machines.
But I digress, I'm gonna get on a tangent, a rant, and probably a drinking binge...
Anyhow, the ISO rating is very near to the kinnematic viscosity at 40C. So instead of the SAE ratings, which have gone from good, to mediocre, to almost meaningless, the ISO relies on you picking the 40C viscosity in centistokes, and a viscosity index. Versus the SAE asking you to choose one or two arbitrary numbers, that Were good, but have gone by the wayside MANY years ago... Not oil company shmoo, but government shmoo. They HAVE to label their products based on an obsolete system. So with SAE, Material spec's (The factory spec number) rules all. WSS-M2C691-B1 for example, for some Fords, or MS-6395 for Mopars (FWIW, Oil can't fix that.
), or CES 20086 for some Cumminzes. Every auto maker and/or engine builder has their own spec. Most big machine and equipment have their own specs, or sometimes they select somebody elses. Years ago, it was more common to just spec a product that was correct. Nobody then knew how much the constand changes and updates in lubrication needs and lubrication technology was going to be so geometrical. It's nutz. The ISO thing is kinda the "metric" version. It works much better, it's more reflective of the actual product, it gets the same answers, but you just gotta go about it differently.
isn't 220 a light machine oil?
It's kind of a heavy gear oil. Big, industrial high horsepower stationary transmissions and gear boxes, Massive screw and roots style air compressors and blowers. ISO 22, 32, and 46 would be "light" gear oils (although they go much lower). The number comes from the viscosity (with caviats), but rule of thumb is lower is thinner.