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Subject:Re: Lubrication of sliding door - How to?
From:Malcolm Stebbins
Date:Tue, 15 May 2007 12:26:56 -0700

Without cleaning the tracks FIRST, one leaves the sand, dirt and grit in there to wear away the
track and rollers and (if I recall properly) some of the slider parts are nylon.  So IMHO, clean
FIRST, then lub.  m2cw

--- Craig Morton <rangermorton1972@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>     I found a simpler way to lubricate them. I hauled a load of hydraulic cylinders a few weeks
> back and at least one of them leaked hydraulic fluid. The door now slides back and forth with
> the greatest of ease and very quietly. So hydraulic fluid apparently works quite well, also.
> Next time the door gets cranky I may just haul some more hydraulic cylinders.
>
>   Craig

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