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Subject:For my travel kit -- hinge oil? [NVC]
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:00:03 -0700

Mrs Elliott and I are presently in Colorado, staying in motels (NVC),
following conference she attended. I am an early-morning riser, she not
so much. So early in the morning I want to be as quiet as a mouse as I
range about the motel room, reading list posts, making crummy motel room
coffee, and using the lavatory.

I've noticed that almost all motel and hotel room lavatory doors need
oiling -- they squeal and squeek as they are opened and closed.

So I'd like to add a little machine oil to my travel kit. Something in
an itty-bitty drip dispenser that has a good cap so it won't leak in my
luggage, even when taken to 30,000 feet in an airplane.

But I have not found such a thing. Have checked with my local hardware
stores and a sewing machine store, and the containers are all too large,
and the caps insecure.

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.