[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] "Voter's Oil?"

[Jim Wiley]

Yes, the Wahl company made (still makes) different clippers and related 
items - at one time even a battery-operated soldering pencil. 


When I was in high school, my electronics instructor was one Phil Wahl, 
who is related to the same Wahl family.  He is still active as W6YLD, 
from Santa Maria, CA.   Since I am now 67, you can do the math - Phil is 
one long-lived son of a gun.  He fought in the Aleutians during WW-II.  
Phil gave me my Novice exam in 1958 - which resulted in my first 
license,  WV6DRO. 


Phil  was an old-school ham.  He believed that  kids like me should 
build as much of their station as possible.  He would haunt the 
government surplus sales, obtaining huge  piles of surplus that the 
school systems could get for virtually free, and he would then pass out 
the stuff to students like me.   Some was usable directly, like ARC5s 
and such, and some was to be scrapped for the parts it contained to 
build something else.  Taught me the value of a junk box.  The lesson 
must have stuck - my "junk box" now overflows two 40-foot "connex" 
enclosed trailers full of parts, and another 40 foot flat-bed tailer 
laden with reels of cable, tower parts and pieces of antennas.  


- Jim, KL7CC



cbmcg at comcast.net wrote:
> Wasn't Wahl a famous maker of barber's electric trimmers ?  I seem to remember Wahl's clipper oil recommended for applications (which I don't remember).
>
> --Chuck
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave Harmon <k6xyz at sbcglobal.net>
> To: jfor at quik.com, 'Wammes Witkop - greenradios.com' <wammes at greenradios.com>
> Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:57:18 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [Milsurplus]  "Voter's Oil?"
>
> You're right...x- switches are....uhh..I guess I should say were...dry...no
> lube.
>
> Dave Harmon
> K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
> Sperry, Ok.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of J. Forster
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 5:50 PM
> To: Wammes Witkop - greenradios.com
> Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] "Voter's Oil?"
>
> Sounds like Strowger oil. Not a bad guess, huh?
>
> BTW, I don't think crossbar switches are lubed at all.
>
> -John
>
> ==============
>
>
>   
>>             I'm Dutch, but German was part of my education. And while
>> collecting SEM's I kept it up...
>>   Wähleröl is indeed quite spcialized, to be used on the relais
>> in exchanges. Real light, but clinging, not to be spread all over the
>> place when the rotating relais does it's job. At least, that is what the
>> German Google results point out. Me, I think it might be quite like
>> sewing machine oil, also a light lubricant in mechanically hectic
>> circumstances.
>>
>>   Grtz, Wammes
>>
>>
>>   J. Forster schreef:    Google is your friend (if you can read German).
>> The name has several hundred hits.  "Wähleröl"  It might have
>> something to do with telephone exchanges.  -John  ===================
>>           Found in a dirty old box from a hamfest: A small bottle of what
>> looks like lubrication oil, about half full, and marked
>> "Wähleröl SHN 058912". Wähleröl translates from
>> German as "Voter's Oil." Anyone ever heard of it??
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