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Bill Kreiner
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| Location: | Hawthorne, New Jersey USA |
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Posted: Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 02:33 am |
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Nicholas Denney wrote: Sigh...... I new I shoulda' kept this secret!
Anyway, there isn't much to it - use a Q-tip to swab some wax (I use Meguiar's Cleaner Wax) into the bearing, and then find something to polish it out with. I like to use a screwdriver covered with a rag to stick into the bearing and wipe it out. You'd be surprised how much dirt you can get out of some bearings! When the bearings are clean, they will LOOK clean - I've gotten bearings polished to the point where they were shinier than the brass blades on a fan! I have experimentally run fans "dry" after giving the bearings the cleanout - without a drop of oil to lubricate them, and they have run as good, if not better than when they were actually oiled!
You're not the first person to ever do this, you know. I read of something similar in a very old magazine, except that Dupont #7 Polish was recommended. I never tried it myself.
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Nicholas Denney
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Posted: Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 03:17 am |
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Well, I may not have invented it, but at least I re-invented it!
Do you recall what the magazine was / how old it was?
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Bill Kreiner
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Posted: Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 03:38 am |
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Nicholas Denney wrote: Well, I may not have invented it, but at least I re-invented it!
Do you recall what the magazine was / how old it was?
Oh, gosh...I was flipping through magazines at an automobilia swap meet when I read that. I thought that little factoid was interesting, so I remembered it, but I didn't buy the magazine. It could have been a Popular Mechanics. If not, then it was something similar, and of similar size and shape. I recall seeing in the same magazine instructions for repairing outboard motors, instructions for beefing up the suspension on a 1940 Ford, instructions for repairing the flashing around a chimney, and a bunch of other neat stuff. I could kick myself now for not buying it. I believe it was from the late 1940s or early 1950s.
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