----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Shorney" <jshor...@inebraska.com>
To: <drakelist@zerobeat.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Drakelist] PTO Question and Drake 4C Questions
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:15:20 -0500, lee wrote:
If you put a lubricant on the nylon gears, they will swell
and bind !!! Do not lubricate the nylon gears, metal ones
are OK to lubricate.
Some nylon gears apparently were lubricated. When I
acquired my minty, virgin,
single-owner R-7A, I opened it up to fix the wonky Molex
connectors and was
surprised to find factory lubricated nylon on the PTO.
Use the *right* lube, and you're OK.
73
-Jim
I've seen a lot of other stuff with plastic gears that
were lubricated at the factory. I think that neither Nylon
or Delrin is a particularly low friction material. Brass
gears do not need lubrication but nearly all other materials
do.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickb...@ix.netcom.com
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