[HAM] CV - Starter motor not engaging TG - follow up

[David Anderson]

I go by science, not faith.

David

On Apr 20, 2007, at 4:55 PM, OF wrote:

> At 12:52 PM 4/20/2007, David Anderson wrote:
>
>
>> I'm sure that using WD-40 on large gears is OK, but Ron Lebar
>> contacted the makers of WD-40 to ask them about the use of WD-40 to
>> free sticky bearings. When informed that the TG bearings were
>> sintered bronze, they replied that the tenacious coating left behind
>> by WD-40 would clog the pores in the sintered bronze as well as the
>> capillary threads of the oiling system and that it should NOT be used
>> either on sintered bronze bearings or where it could be sprayed onto
>> oiling threads.
>
> I don't know who Ron Lebar is, but I know who Mike Fulk is. He was an
> intimate of Alan Young and those guys. If he says that the Hammond  
> factory
> says it's OK, then it's OK. End of Chapter One.
>
> Chapter Two. What John Lynch said. believe it.