

| Subject: | Sliding door - lubing |
| From: | Austin |
| Date: | Tue, 1 Oct 1996 23:28:48 -0700 |
At 03:21 PM 10/1/96 -0500, RON wrote: >>How do I go about lubricating the sliding door? And what sort of stuff >>should I use to do it? Besides the obvious points - anything that moves, *inside* the bearings, carefully cleaning all the grunge from the roller tracking areas (esp. at the bottom track where all the cr*p scraped off yer shoes ends up - use a soft dowel w/ a rag damp w/ kerosene to get way back there) . . . . after all that, mine still squeeked just b4 the closed/latched position; close inspection revealed that the bottom roller (where all the shoe grunge ends up) actually slides *sideways* (!) through the end of the 's' curve just b4 closing: solution ? - apply a film of beeswax, paraffin wax, or something quasi-lubricating that is dry (so you don't collect more dirt than will end up there anyway ) to the flat surface the roller rides on. Repeat once a year. Austin
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