If some one has the main contact info Parks or Houghton I will see about bringing some in bulk and reselling it in 5's an 1 gallons. Oil is gawdawful messy to repackage and ship and i have avoided for that reason but it shouldn't be this hard to get either.
I'm not an expert, Tracy, but I've gotten from Kevin Cashen and "Mete" that simply moving a blade in the quench constitutes agitation... end to end movement... never side to side.
"Mete" discussed a whirlpool type "agitator" somewhere in knife-forum land. Seemed as simple a system as others I've heard discussed... stick blade, edge on, into the outside of the whirl.
Mike
PS -- Who's Lee Nevse?