Fallout 76 Cutting Fluid Recipe

Does anyone know what cutting fluid is used for?

So Daniel at Anchor farm gave me the cutting fluid recipe as reward for killing the Free Radicals as part of Hunter for Hire quest and I eagerly learnt it right away. But now I'm completely miffed as to the purpose of cutting fluid. If anyone can shed some light as to this recipe usage it would much appreciated. Here the Recipe at a chemistry work station.

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level 1

Scrap to give oil and steel

level 2

Op · 2y

I wish I hadn't learnt it now, I'm sure the recipe would have been worth a fair number of extra caps from the novelty alone.

level 1

You can scrap it, same as fallout 4

level 1

huh, 500 hours in and didn't know you could craft those

level 2

· 2y

That's what I'm saying lol

level 1

· 2y

If I remember correctly, oil was hard to come by in Fallout 4, but much in need. This recipe was one way to craft oil from other, more common ingredients. It doesn't make sense in Fallout 76 because the economy is totally different. Acid is far too valuable for other uses like smelting ore to waste on something as common and little-used as oil, in my opinion.

level 2

Op · 2y

Yeah, I'd rather have the recipe for incutting fluid to turn oil into acid.

level 1

Chem creation needs cutting fluid

level 1

· 2y

I am finding that I just made all the wrong decisions on that questline