Sciman: My mother would say to spray the door seal with PAM, the aerosol vegetable oil cooking product. This may sound like a Martha Stewart anality (Is there such a word? Anyway, it rhymes with banality) but, I was once party to having some rebuilt submersible pump motors filled with vegetable oil. This was on the advice of an old-time engineer after a shop had originally filled them with mineral oil. The mineral oil caused their power drop cords, type SO, which has rubber insulation, to swell to be as big and soft as an uncured blood sausage. As far as I know, now ten years later, these pumps are still making the dancing waters do the Tango. That is what my mother would do; I would use a paste wax on the seal contact surface of the door and dust the seal with talc. Rich |
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