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   RANGERP75R | Nov 29, 2003 04:28am | #1

   petemoss

      Wax it and see what happens.

   Luck...

   sarge..jt

   Proud member of the :  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   JMartinsky | Nov 29, 2003 06:13am | #2

   If it the "old style" PC set up, which I believe it is, then, yes, wax it, DON'T oil it, but those mechanisms were never all that smooth in the first place. Very rugged, will outlive all of us, but smooth, no. If you want smooth, think Bosch.

   Good Luck,

   John

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   PeteMoss | Nov 29, 2003 04:35pm | #3

   Thanks for the help. That does make more sense to wax it so all the dust wont stick so bad. Several things on the unit have been kind of stiff to start with, but have loosened up with use. I think it is probably some manufacturing gunk left on there from when it was made or packaged.

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   RANGERP75R | Nov 29, 2003 07:20pm | #4

   pete

      You might wipe the moving parts with a rag that has been soaked with mineral spirits and wrung out. Let it dry throughly and then wax it. If they added cosmoline or the eqilavent of, that will remove it.

   sarge..jtProud member of the :  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   Sphere | Nov 30, 2003 12:02am | #5

   Don't forget a REALLY good thing...Graphite spray..Did my old Ryobi, about..ten yrs. ago..still slick..no dust cling, I also spray the trunnions on the TS, the BS guide post, the Sliding Chop saw rails, and a plethora of things that need to slide smoothly..we used a whole lot in the "sliders" in the old PipeOrgans I used to restore..McMaster-carr probly has it..

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   RANGERP75R | Nov 30, 2003 12:09am | #6

   Sphere

      I'm so sheltered, I didn't know that it came in spray. I use powdered graphite all the time, but it won't stay on those vertical shafts. I had thought of inventing spray graphite, but....... A day late and a dollor short... again!   ha..ha...

   Regards...

   sarge..jtProud member of the :  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   Sphere | Nov 30, 2003 12:25am | #7

   Sarge..like a friend of mine used to say.."W-D 40.., I put it on everything 'cept maybe my salad"..I am that way with Graphite and at times White Lithium Grease spray...anybody can pull out  Ol' WD..takes a pro to really slobber something up with Graphite and grease..BTW, there is ALSO graphite grease..kinda like Vaseline and graphite powder mixed...gotta love it.  Duane

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   RANGERP75R | Nov 30, 2003 01:14am | #8

   Sphere

      Thanks for the tip on the spray. Having been around auto's for quite a while, I use WD-40 as a cleaning agent. Great for that, but I perfer other lubricants as it dries up quickly. At one time it had no lubricants, but they added something in the last several years.

      White lithium grease has it's place also. Around fine saw-dust I would chose those places carefully though. ha.. ha..

   sarge..jtProud member of the :  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   ETG | Dec 01, 2003 04:00pm | #14

   There's another wonderful use for WD-40.  Our county school system does  not allow the use of pesticide sprays inside/outside of the school - too dangerous with the many allergies, etc.  So the custodians had to call exterminators to remove wasp and yellow jacket nests around the outside of the building.  Then a custodian who was being attacked by a yellow jacket used some WD-40 and wahla! - it took them down.  WD-40 is an approved aerisol and now all the custodians have a can of the spray.  I've since tried it and it works great - much cheaper than bug spray and much more versitile!

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   RANGERP75R | Dec 01, 2003 08:13pm | #15

   EDGREGG

      I've used it for years to clean grit off. Then add a lubricant. It left a decieving oily film that dried in days. Supposely they have added a lubricant to it now as the can does state lubricates. It didn't use to as brought to my attention about 25 years ago.

     Bug spray. Hmmm....   Wonder if it will work as a "teen-ager distractant"? Try it to-nite.  ha.. ha...

   Have a good day EG...

   sarge..jtProud member of the :  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   crt2cu2 | Nov 30, 2003 08:49am | #9

   Sphere,

   Being basically too cheap and too lazy to get graphite spray from the hardware store, I rub the posts of my big Hitachi router with a carpenters pencil. Seems to work pretty good but now I guess I have to try to find graphite spray and see if that works better.

   Mike S.

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   ejant | Nov 30, 2003 10:01pm | #10

   Wax is a good idea as I wax the shafts on my plunge routers.

   Before waxing polishing them with Scotchbrite will prepare them nicely for wax.

   
   

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   Edited 11/30/2003 2:52:26 PM ET by Ed

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   tufenhundel | Dec 01, 2003 10:17am | #11

   I also modified my PC690 to give me better control of the plunge action.  I cut several coils off of the spring.  This reduced the force required to plunge = more control.

   FWIW...

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   ChipTam | Dec 01, 2003 02:48pm | #12

   There may be better choices than WD-40 out there as the other posts have stated.  Still, I don't think that WD-40 will hurt the plunge mechanism.  I've been putting a couple of drops of WD-40 every now and then on my 15 year-old Hitachi without any problems.

   Chip

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   Scrit | Dec 01, 2003 03:42pm | #13

   There are quite a few spray light oils with additives like PTFE (Teflon) which are way better than WD40. I use Wurth SaBesto Lube 2000 and it displaces water but leaves a very thin coating of corrosion inhibitors and Teflon. Tried it last year and now I'm a convert

   Scrit