6 Aug
2005
6 Aug
'05
5:12 p.m.
The "drawer slides" on the rack of the PDP-11/40 I am working with are
very stiff. Were these originally lubricated?
My instincts are to use a little bit of wheel bearing grease, but I was
curious, because there was not much residue.
-chuck
6 Aug
6 Aug
6:24 p.m.
The "drawer slides" on the rack of the PDP-11/40 I am working with are
very stiff. Were these originally lubricated?
I have wiped a black grease off rack slides, which cuggests it's either
dirty grease, graphite grease, or moly grease (molybdenum disulphide grease).
My instincts are to use a little bit of wheel bearing grease, but I was
curious, because there was not much residue.
I would keep graphite grease away from electrical stuff for obvious
reasons. But a smear of molu grease, or just plain high melting point
bearing grease, will do no harm at all IMHO
-tony
6:30 p.m.
On Saturday 06 August 2005 17:12, Charles H. Dickman wrote:
The "drawer slides" on the rack of the
PDP-11/40 I am working with are
very stiff. Were these originally lubricated?
My instincts are to use a little bit of wheel bearing grease, but I was
curious, because there was not much residue.
I've found that modern silicon based lubricants do wonders for even the
stickiest slides...
Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
7 Aug
7 Aug
2:10 p.m.
At 08:12 PM 8/6/05 -0400, you wrote:
The "drawer slides" on the rack of the
PDP-11/40 I am working with are
very stiff. Were these originally lubricated?
My instincts are to use a little bit of wheel bearing grease, but I was
curious, because there was not much residue.
I just finished cleaning up 7 pairs of DEC rack slides and I didn't find
any sign of grease on any of them. I don't recall ever seeing grease on any
of the rack slides on any of the electronic equipment that I've worked on.
I'm not saying you can't use grease on them. I'm just saying that none of
the ones that I've seen ever had any on them. A lot of reack slides have
wheels on them with ball bearings in then and I think they are usually
greased. I'd check and see if those wheels are rotating freely.
Joe
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