From: Pete Turnbull <pete@dunnington.plus.com>
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@hamartun.priv.no>
Cc: TUHS@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:58:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85b526f8-7327-6210-05fb-29bdfbe7d726@dunnington.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2h8k21970.fsf@thuvia.hamartun.priv.no>
On 10/08/2018 17:24, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> Pete Turnbull <pete@dunnington.plus.com> writes:
>
>> The Teletype manual definitely doesn't suggest 3-in-One oil
>
> A couple of decades ago, I got hold of a Teletype that sort of worked,
> but was extremely unreliable. After studying that manual, and deciding
> that the proper lubrication plan was too complex for my tastes, I just
> turned the thing on with the top off, and emptied a spray can of CRC
> 5-56 into the mechanism while exercising the keyboard. It proceeded to
> work well for my off-and-on use for several years after that.
TBH, I suspect that for occasional use, you don't need to use the
perfect lubricants, just not something that turns into glue during
periods of disuse. I wouldn't spray WD40 into anything, though, except
maybe a dried out ribbon which was what Warner described.
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull
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2018-08-08 12:10 ` [TUHS] " Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 12:32 ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 12:59 ` Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 13:51 ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 14:45 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-08 14:56 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-08-08 15:09 ` [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was " Toby Thain
2018-08-08 17:38 ` Cornelius Keck
2018-08-08 19:14 ` Jim Geist
2018-08-08 20:44 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-09 5:14 ` arnold
2018-08-09 5:55 ` Jim Geist
2018-08-09 6:02 ` George Michaelson
2018-08-09 7:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-09 12:36 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-09 13:45 ` Michael Parson
2018-08-09 13:31 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-09 14:15 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-08-09 14:26 ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-10 11:37 ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 11:37 ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 16:24 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2018-08-10 16:58 ` Pete Turnbull [this message]
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