10 Aug
2018
10 Aug
'18
10:58 p.m.
On 10/08/2018 17:24, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.plus.com>
writes:
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
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.