Date:         Mon, 29 Jun 2015 12:17:58 -0500
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: pink powder
Comments: To: ed donnen <spliced.surprise@GMAIL.COM>
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No identifying information on this mystery product?  There used to be a product called "Lock-eze," but I thought it was just a brand name for graphite.  What you have obviously, as you know, is not graphite.  BTW, did it work to free up the lock?  So far as graphite is concerned, I have used it all my life, as did my father and mother before me.  It does not attract dirt and so make the sticky lock worse like any lubricating oil does.  I've never had a problem with it, other than it getting onto surfaces and materials where I did not want it, and it being quite difficult to clean up.  Soap and water work, but not everything it might get on is soap and water compatible, and it has a way of getting spread far and wide.  If it gets onto fabric, might as well toss it if the stains matter.  mcneely

---- ed donnen <spliced.surprise@GMAIL.COM> wrote: 
> I have been having a problem with the key sliding into the door lock on my
> DoKa.  Now, my dad was a confirmed Graphite man, swore by and at it all his
> life.  After rummaging about in the legacy junk pile some might call
> treasure (but not anyone I know), I found a bulbous rubber squirter with a
> thin needle like end.  It still had some heft to it, so I knew it was not
> empty.  In defiance of all my years of experience, I inserted the end of
> this tool and squirted what turned out to be a pink powdery substance into
> my lock.
> So, my question is, “What is this pink powder, and am I in trouble?”
> 
> The powder seems sort-of slippery.
> 
> Ed-91DoKa, now with a pink lock

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David McNeely