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

[J. Forster]

Sounds like Strowger oil. Not a bad guess, huh?

BTW, I don't think crossbar switches are lubed at all.

-John

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>            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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