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#20209 - 04/18/17 04:23 PM Vaseline on door lock contacts ?  
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You guys ever use it or is it just a old school myth?

#20215 - 04/18/17 08:35 PM Re: Vaseline on door lock contacts ? [Re: JimboNJ]  
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I use it on beaks for residential and VPLs all the time, have used on a couple of older locks. Use very sparingly. The old shipper ropes contacts used to state on the cover to the contacts to use petrolium jelly

#20216 - 04/18/17 08:36 PM Re: Vaseline on door lock contacts ? [Re: Boa]  
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the reidential locks I've used it on gave no more troubles

#20222 - 04/19/17 12:06 AM Re: Vaseline on door lock contacts ? [Re: Boa]  
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Never heard of Vaseline, have heard of wiping the contacts with a rag that has WD40 on it.

#20224 - 04/19/17 12:30 AM Re: Vaseline on door lock contacts ? [Re: E-man]  
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I only saw some of the old time mechanics keep jars of it in the top of their tool boxes. As a helper at the time I really didn't want to ask why...

#20230 - 04/19/17 11:39 AM Re: Vaseline on door lock contacts ? [Re: ABE]  
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Hahaha, how did I know somebody was gunna say that

#20232 - 04/19/17 04:07 PM Re: Vaseline on door lock contacts ? [Re: JimboNJ]  
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Was great for stopping the carbon contacts squealing when they passed over the floor bars on the old mechanical floor selectors.

#20267 - 04/22/17 05:51 AM Re: Vaseline on door lock contacts ? [Re: koneisland]  
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A lot of the old Otis techs did this, on the lock hold and lift points.


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