[GreenKeys] Yet another magic lubricant

[Lee Mushel]

Well, you guys never seem to like my lubrication suggestions but here is 
another one.   Go to a plumbing supply store.   No, you can't go to a big 
box store---they won't know what you're talking about.   I mean a little 
place that does nothing but sell plumbing supplies and all you find are rows 
of old lavatories and toilets in the display area but out back they stock 
parts for faucets made in 1903..

Ask them for some silicone lubricant.  They will assume that you really 
don't want a "serious" product since you don't look like a plumber.   So 
they will suggest some dumb, runny black goop in a jar or bottle.   Say, 
"No, I want the stuff that comes in a little tin jar with about a half ounce 
in it."   You will know you have the right stuff when he tells you that the 
dinky quantity costs $10. It is a colorless grease.

What you have is a lubricant that makes faucets work forever and is, 
obviously, totally inert because you will be consuming a few atoms from time 
to time.   Apply to your plastic gears in the thinnest possible way and I 
think you will be pleased.

I will say, once again, for any other lubrication application, use Tri-Flo. 
If it's good enough for machine guns it's good enough for teletype machines.

73

Lee   K9WRU
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From: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Yet another magic lubricant