Pete Verdon wrote:
Rod wrote:

Not entirely sure I would endorse Vaseline for this purpose. If the
washer is rubber, doesn't Vaseline affect many rubber products?

It certainly eats bike inner tubes. I used it to grease an educational
apparatus that used strips of inner tube to provide elasticity, and they
all perished in a couple of weeks.

Here's the contraption: http://twitpic.com/1b00x

The strange-looking man in the picture is the creator, I merely designed
and built it for him.

Pete