29 Aug
2006
29 Aug
'06
1:06 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I know it's not quite the same thing but on the small mechanical parts
of hydraulic systems I work on, I find that some of them are almost
impossible to get sorted out unless you dunk them in a bucket of petrol
for a while and flush the worst of the crap out before you even *start*
to take them to bits.
Of course the key here is that you do still take them to bits and clean
everything properly.
Gordon.
You do need to
strip the mechanism and remove the old lubricant - if you
just wash the mechanism, all you do is drive dirt into the pivots, and
I am sure I was flamed either here or on a camera repair forum for making
much the same point. I regard fluching a mechanism with solvent as being
a real bodger's trick, likely to do more harm than good.