Perhaps you should follow up the penetrating oil with a lubricant for the long haul -- perhaps ATF?
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Poking around my garage the other day I found a can of Rotunda Penetrating > oil > http://www.hammar.dyndns.org/ROTUNDA/19a501a.jpg > which looks to be a FoMoCo product. > I like regular can penetrant like this because its easy to get right where > you want it. I filed its presence away in my head for later. > > Tonight I grabbed the mirror assembly Tom had sent me and hit the pivot > points with some Rotunda. Its the strangest smelling stuff ever. I don't > even have words to describe what it smells like... Kind of like burning > plastic I guess. > Anyway I managed to locate the pivot point I'd broken on my other mirror > and lube it up good. Looking at it now I think I can fix the other one once > I drill out the broken screw... > > The Rotunda works really well, about 1 minute on the rusty pivot and the > thing works like new... After dinner I'll install the mirror. It'll be nice > to have a mirror I can put where I want in that car after all these years. > Then I need to pull the switch to the electric mirror apart (again!) and see > if I can finally get it clean enough to work right. > > -Curt > > > -- > OK Don > Pair of W124 300D 2.5 Turbos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090915/b0177f97/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
