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

[Bruce Gentry]

Bruce Gentry wrote:
> J. Forster wrote:
>> 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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> I remember something from telephone switching called a "Voting 
> Selector",   a kind of AND gate with many inputs that will trigger 
> when enough of them go high at the same time. So much 
> electro-mechanical  equipment is disappearing, maybe forever. 
> Computers are great, but there is something so visceral and engaging 
> about older relay logic and electromechanical gear.  Serious problems 
> arise when computer software developers don't have any experience with 
> older technology and try to write softwares to control it.  I agree 
> with one of the members of this list who says: "Real Radios Have Motors!"
>
> Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY
>