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  1. Mea culpa - my apologies for spamming the newsgroup with my test
    massage. Er, message. In mitigation I offer the dismally
    unconvincing, yet strangely true, explanation that I was trying to debug
    a mailing list and applied fingers to keyboard before I applied brain to
    fingers.

    *skulks off to thrash myself senseless with a brake cable and then wear
    a h*lm*t in the shower by way of penance*

    To drag this remotely back on topic lest this be seen as more OTness: I
    was one of the lucky few who received a replacement Kryptonite New York
    lock fairly promptly. It's starting to get a light patina of surface
    rust just in the holes where the U-bit engages, which is starting to
    make it just a wee bit sticky. Now, when I were lad, it were drummed
    into me that grease and locks are things to be kept well apart, so I'm
    reluctant to grease it or oil it. But I don't want the bugger rusting
    (it has to spend rather a large portion of its life outdoors, or at
    least it will until the powers that be approved the covered cycle stands
    that have been on the agenda since 1,000,000 years BC. Any thoughts?

    R.

  2. Richard <[email hidden]>
    wrote in news:[email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    and applied fingers to keyboard before I applied brain to
    fingers.

    Is that not just accepted usenet practice?

  3. Richard said:

    Now, when I were lad, it were drummed
    into me that grease and locks are things to be kept well apart

    Why would that be?

    I've always used WD40 or 3-in-1 or somesuch on things like the padlock
    for the shed to prevent rusting, and it seems to do the trick.

    d.

  4. davek said:
    Richard said:

    Now, when I were lad, it were drummed
    into me that grease and locks are things to be kept well apart

    Why would that be?

    I've always used WD40 or 3-in-1 or somesuch on things like the padlock
    for the shed to prevent rusting, and it seems to do the trick.

    Because oil/grease + dirt => grinding paste.

    R.

  5. Richard said:

    Because oil/grease + dirt => grinding paste.

    OK, I see. But would this really be a problem on your bike lock?

    d.

  6. davek said:
    Richard said:

    Because oil/grease + dirt => grinding paste.

    OK, I see. But would this really be a problem on your bike lock?

    Nope. A wipe with something oily for the rusty engaging bits, graphite
    for the complicated locking bits. No need to actually oil the lock.

    --

    TimP

  7. Richard said:
    davek said:
    Richard said:

    Now, when I were lad, it were drummed
    into me that grease and locks are things to be kept well apart

    Why would that be?

    I've always used WD40 or 3-in-1 or somesuch on things like the padlock
    for the shed to prevent rusting, and it seems to do the trick.

    Because oil/grease + dirt => grinding paste.


    And oil + time => sticky greasy stuff as the lighter stuff evaporates,
    that stops the tumblers in the lock from working properly.

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