Armor All Lubricant

Bob Luffel (bobl@gr.hp.com)
Thu, 9 Mar 95 16:40:12 MST

Just thought I would pass along some additional armor-all comments. Dave Kriege suggested I use a mixture of half and half armor-all and silicone based paste auto wax on my obsession bearings. It really slicks thing up (almost too much) and seems to last a while. I would expect that the addition of the car wax lengthens the effectiveness/life of the mixture.

One more tip, I covered a thin metal kitchen spatula with a thin velvet layer - I squirt the armor-all mixture onto the pad and then insert the thin spatula into the thing gap between rocker box and ground board. I can now just spin the telescope and coat the Ebony Star. This is an easy way to get the lubricant into a difficult area. Of course, the altitude bearing surfaces are much more accessible.

Bob