ASTM D 5964 - 16 Standard Practice for Rubber IRM 901, IRM 902, and IRM 903 Replacement Oils for ASTM No. 1, ASTM No. 2, ASTM No. 3 Oils, and IRM 905 formerly ASTM No. 5 Oil

Current edition approved Feb. 1, 2016. Published February 2016. Originally approved in 1996. Last previous edition approved in 2015 as D5964 – 15a. — 10 p.
This practice covers three immersion oils to be used as replacements forASTM No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 immersion oils as called for in Test Method D471. The immersion oils will be designated as IRM 901 as a replacement for ASTM No. 1 oil, IRM 902 as a replacement for ASTM No. 2 oil, and IRM 903 as a replacement for ASTM No. 3 oil. The new reference oils have been developed under a new Committee D11 policy on reference materials (see Practice D4678 for background on the new policy and procedures).
The oils, IRM 901, IRM 902, and IRM 903, are similar but not fully equivalent to ASTM No.1, ASTM No. 2, and 1 This practice is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D11 on Rubber andis the direct responsibility of Subcommittee D11.15 on Degradation Tests.
ASTM No. 3 oil, respectively. Refer to Table 1 for a description of the typical properties and specifications for these oils.
ASTM No. 5 Oil was accepted into Specification D5900 as an industry reference material in 2010 and designated as IRM 905. The composition, and properties of this immersion oil were not changed and the data in Table 1 remains current. It was listed among the IRM immersion oils in Test Method D471 in 2010.