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Date:         Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:41:30 -0800
Reply-To:     Michael Rasmussen <michael@JAMHOME.US>
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From:         Michael Rasmussen <michael@JAMHOME.US>
Subject:      Re: rear hatch lock
Comments: To: Steve Sandlin <vwcarlocks@HOTMAIL.COM>
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On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 09:14:12AM -0600, Steve Sandlin wrote:
> The procedure we use for cleaning (when we can't do a disassembly and ultrasonic cleaning) is to flush with carb cleaner spray, work the key in and out, and repeat several times.  After the cleaner has evaporated, we use a specialty lock lubricant, but have had great luck with Tri-Flow.  It was reallly the standard until this synthetic lock lube was introduces by Briggs and Stratton several years ago.  If you can't find Tri-Flow


Tri-Flow is used by bicycle mechanics as a cable lube.  You'll find it at any bike shop.


(yeah, I've been offline for a bit...)


--
      Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
  Trading kilograms for kilometers since 2003
    Be appropriate && Follow your curiosity
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The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is:
Apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation
and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public
order... what have the Romans done for us?
    ~ Monty Python
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