[R-390] R-390 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 41

[Tisha Hayes]

"One thing many people overlook when cleaning and lubricating the gear train
is the KC 10 turn stop........clean all of those blades and fingers of years
of accumalted crud, and lubricate lightly, a synthetic oil works nicely.

When you get all those bushings cleaned, lubed and aligned along with the
gear train, you can rest a finger in the detent on the kc knob and use it
like a spinner knob."
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I have run across that too. When it is clean you should hear the
tink-tink-tink of those detents ticking down as you spin the dial real fast
with your finger.

I often wondered why they did not go for a ten turn brass worm gear for that
mechanism.
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I think some folks do not understand what "light lubrication" means. I would
swear that some of the stuff I have run across is as sticky and nasty as
Cosmoline.

BTW, if you are ever looking for new Cosmoline I have a source of one pound
containers. Works wonderful on aluminum mast sections where they slide
together.

Goes great on toast too... maybe doubles as a denture cream.

73'
Tisha