As Bungy says pencil and sandpaper,graphite is good and is applied to all our locks, cheap an all
Frozen Lock . . .??
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Wolfgang
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Padlock Frozen ?
My Squire padlock was frozen this morning,not the ignition.
I poured some hot water over the lock body & key.
Away we went -3C West London.
My Squire padlock was frozen this morning,not the ignition.
I poured some hot water over the lock body & key.
Away we went -3C West London.
gooey
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Long time ago had to stop a woman in a filling station from trying to defrost a petrol cap lock with her lighter!
BOBAD
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When I was working in Russia quite some time ago, it was common practice for truck drivers to light a small fire under their diesel fuel tanks overnight to prevent the fuel from waxing in the intense cold of a Siberian winter.
It looked horrific at first but no diasters ever happened that I saw......
I saw a guy in an English petrol station doing what you described - thawing out his fuel cap with a lighter - but I didn't ask him to stop, just to wait until I was a mile down the road before continuing..........
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ninjarich1971
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Squirt a bit of chain lube into the ignition barrel. I used to do the wd40 thing and it never seemed to really do the trick. Some where on here someone explained why and to use chain lube into the thing and it really does work. Doesn't dry out and doesn't seem to reduce to a sticky mess either.
kevingambrell
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Put a cover over the lock at night, folded up rag works wrapped round the barrel.
Pencils are a large part clay dust bound in with the graphite. THe softer the pencil
the more clay dust. I have no wish to put
clay in my ignition lock. On the same basis I wouldnt use WD40 or any other
wet lubricant, it just forms a grinding paste with any grit or muck already
in the lock.
You can buy graphite powder from Amazon for a few quid for small bottle.
I use it to cover gland packing in steam engines and buy it in two pound bags
for not a lot of money.
Pencils are a large part clay dust bound in with the graphite. THe softer the pencil
the more clay dust. I have no wish to put
clay in my ignition lock. On the same basis I wouldnt use WD40 or any other
wet lubricant, it just forms a grinding paste with any grit or muck already
in the lock.
You can buy graphite powder from Amazon for a few quid for small bottle.
I use it to cover gland packing in steam engines and buy it in two pound bags
for not a lot of money.
Ha! Not quite, I find the R9T a bit small but it does make a wonderful sound and the engine is so much sweeter than the old nail in mine (out of 8 BMW twin boxers I've owned, its the worst engine by a country mile, it feels strangulated, even though it has a baffle free Akro!). As an aside, its really hard to tell on the R9T whether you've got full heat on the grips or just low heat mode, so my fingers had nearly fallen off by the time I got to work.
Anyway, Mrs HPNer put her foot down . . no more R9T, so this morning, same thing, so heated up the key on gas hob and ran outside, stuck it in the ignition and wheeey, turned like knife through butter!
The GS was back in action, its a bit of a rust bucket now, but I don't like the water cooled one bit, so it has to stay . . . could just do with an engine transplant!
Bendy toy
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A kettle of hot water does the job and also works great on a frozen windscreen. No cracks. None. That's what my neighbour thought.
PING, klink, klink. Oh F***
Cling film or plastic bag over the bike ignition lock then pour warm water over will thaw it and not add any more water to the problem.
PING, klink, klink. Oh F***
Cling film or plastic bag over the bike ignition lock then pour warm water over will thaw it and not add any more water to the problem.
I use a PTFE dry-slide lubricant.
It has a solvent carrier which evaporates, leaving a film of PTFE.
It's best when polished / burnished afterwards which you obviously can't do in a lock but it still works well.
Used to use it on gun slides back in the day - you don't want attracted gunk gumming them up...
It has a solvent carrier which evaporates, leaving a film of PTFE.
It's best when polished / burnished afterwards which you obviously can't do in a lock but it still works well.
Used to use it on gun slides back in the day - you don't want attracted gunk gumming them up...
Once again, you shouldn't use fluid lubricants in locks (especially sticky gear oil).
Put down the oil can (unless you're filling up your final drive).
kevingambrell
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With PTFE based spray lubricants thats the idea. The PTFE bonds with the surface its sprayed onto if you read the can, or more likely it just sits in the
surface imperfections.
Either way it works very well.
Bendy toy
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My Mk3 VW Passat door locks would freeze. The car opened fine with the key and central locking operated but the actual lock mechanisms would stick. One day I had to drive home with a bungee cord holding the passenger door shut.
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