----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Morris" <[email protected]>
> If you have something stuck due to rust, try a product called Kroil which is > the best penetrating oil I've ever tried. You can find it through Google. Hi Bill & List, A product that I've found that works every bit as well as Kroil, and is a lot cheaper and more readily available is plain old "Marvel Mystery Oil!" As I'm sure you all know, "Marvel" is NOT a lubricating oil in the regular sense and should be used to oil bearings and such. But it's properties as a upper cylinder lubricant give it excellent wicking properties, and capillary action will draw it into tight spaces to free rusted parts. I once dig the transmisssion cover from Model T Ford literally from the mud where it had been buried for probably 50 years. Two weeks worth of daily applications of Marvel oil, and just the slightest tap with a rubber hammer to encourage the oil to flow into the crevices, and the transmission shafts freed up and are now working well in a fully restired Model T. Automatic transmission fluid will also work, thiugh not as quickly as marvel oil. You just need to be patient, and not try to "force" the frozen joint. Time and Marvel Mystery Oil will free up most rusted shafts and bearings you are likely to find on a phonograph. Keith Taylor Jefferson, Maine USA
