In a message dated 4/6/2005 4:46:13 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
I use clock oil for this. Is that an acceptable substance? Randy Greetings Randy: Yes, clock oil is excellent. 3 in 1 is a paraffin based oil that actually can harden into super glue with age and oxidation. Clock oil is designed not to harden but slowly oxidize away into virtually nothing. I have found old movie projectors, tape recorders, windup phonographs, clocks, toy electric trains, etc. that were jammed solid with 3 in 1 or a similar product. Using solvent to remove the dried paraffin deposits is the only solution. Then you have to go over the bearing surfaces with a good quality light machine oil. Old clock oils used whale oil that would not oxidize. Today's clock oils are for the most part jojoba oil which act the same and will not end up as glue in the gears. For the most part silicon oils are like jojoba oils in that they too will never dry out in our lifetime but often additives are put in that will alter this. Regards, Al An old crank who gets wound up over 3 in 1 on a phonograph...
