Do not grease/oil a fiber gear. You may be able to adjust the gears a bit to contact in a different area, which may reduce the noise. Otherwise, new nylon replacements are available.
Regards, Loran On Feb 14, 2005, at 5:55 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > In a message dated 2/14/2005 1:01:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > The gear that drives the governor assembly looks to be made of some > sort of > a fibrous material, somewhat orange in color. Is it save to > lubricate that > material as you would a metal gear? > > > > I am going to take a cue from our politicians, (all of them), and > expound on > a topic of which my knowledge is very limited. I am an Edison man. > Therefore, I have no direct knowledge of fiber gears. However, I once > read an article > about them which stuck in my memory. The article said that fiber > gears can > wear out metal gears, because the fiber gears produce abrasive > particles as > they wear. If you grease this pressed fiber gear, those particles and > the grease > will form an abrasive goo, which will accelerate the wearing of the > metal > gear. I would think that greasing a pressed fiber gear would > accelerate that > gear's deterioration also. > > Now the real experts can answer your question properly. > > Randy > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/ >
