Rowland,
PTFE is teflon. Quite common in spray form...
Jeff - Baby Blue
Rowland Carson wrote:
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>>> Although I have *no* insight at all, I would wonder if the tufnol
>>> material would absorb oil/grease and swell
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>>> If you receive or find the answer of tufnol compatible lubrication,
>>> I'd be grateful if you could pass the info along
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> Pete - the definitive answer from Neville Eyre via Roger is that any
> sort of grease is probably best kept away from the cut edges of the
> Tufnol, because it's likely to cause swelling. Apart from directly
> affecting the integrity of the Tufnol, grease is also likely to act as a
> magnet for dust etc which would turn it into grinding paste.
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> The manual suggests wiping the faces of CS04 with grease before
> assembling the CS02-CS03-CS04 cluster - but that should only be applied
> to the glassy as-manufactured surfaces, not the cut edges or bore of the
> hole. The only lubricant Neville would accept for the bore is PTFE. I
> have never seen it myself but apparently it can be got as a spray which
> is solid particles in a rapid-evaporating propellant.
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> regards
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> Rowland
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