[GreenKeys] M15 cleaning bath

[Chuck Swiger]

Will that get into those hard to get places, particularly the
selector fingers and the type bars?    I'll try that tonight as
kerosene's inexpensive, plentiful, and then go for the stronger
stuff if there's still binding.

Actually, I took the platen ass'y, magnet, dashpot and return
spring drum off during lunch,  just so the bath won't get
into hollow things.

At 10:42 AM 2/13/02 -0600, <jhaynes@alumni.uark.edu> wrote:
>I use kerosene, and you'll have to use a brush to get the icky stuff off.
>I don't soak the motor.  I don't do anything special about the selector
>magnet or platen; they seem to survive the soak OK.  One thing not to soak
>is celluloid keytops, since the kerosene gets into the paper and discolors
>it permanently.  I guess we could get creative and print new keytops on
>clean paper and replace them, but that is work.
>
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