Re: [TenTec] TRI-flow comment from a user...

["B.Lee Cornwell" <k2blc@earthlink.net>]

Yep ...I've done the same thing with WD-40...I sure wish it wouldn't work on 
one so I could learn how to do a PTO re-build.
73 Lee K2BLC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dbp@tds.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:23 PM
Subject: [TenTec] TRI-flow comment from a user...


> Hi-
>    Need to re-lube your ten tec PTO? Try the Tri-Flow spray bicycle lube. 
> It is available at lots of hardware stores and even the local 
> grocery/pharmacy/wine/car products store in the village here in NH.
>    I have used it to lube PTO's quite a few times with great success... 
> and no failures.
>    After getting to the PTO I set the rig up so that I can spray the 
> mechanism liberally with Tri-Flo and let it then drain to wash away the 
> old dried up grease. Not just a short squirt, I really wash the old grease 
> away as I run the tuning knob from one end of its rotation to the other 
> many times. It has freed up PTO's that I couldn't begin to turn.
>    The last one I did was just a year ago, and it is still as smooth as 
> you could want, but not so free as to not have the friction to drive the 
> PTO.
>    I  expect that since the Tri-Flo oil can survive on a bicycle chain and 
> its hard usage than, most likely it will survive in a PTO for a long time.
>    Gosh, if you have tried it and found that it doesn't work, let me 
> know!!
>    Oh, it is not for the purist, I suppose.
>
> Happy New Year!!
> Dave in NH
>
>
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