"raden" wrote in message
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"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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What's a good bearing oil for a phosphor bronze (I think)
bearing in a small computer fan? Would a tiny bit of car
engine oil do?

Bronze bearings are usually intended to be self-lubricating.

Until they dry out

You are presuming that they are oil impregnated porous bronze bearings.
Decent self-lubricating bronze bearings have a suspension of lead in the
bronze and don't dry out, nor do graphite impregnated porous bronze
bearings.

Oiling them
runs the risk of oil + dust creating an abrasive mix that will quickly
wear
the bearing away.

Sorry, but ********

I spent more than a decade making and repairing industrial clocks. One of
the quickest way for anyone to wreck them was to oil the bronze motor
bearings.

Colin Bignell