On 6 Oct, 22:07, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:50:10 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:
Fitted a (genuine) Yale lock today. *Instructions said;

To lubricate, use WD40 or similar!

Oh yes!

In black & white, from the people who invented the cylinder pin-tumbler
lock. *Lubricate with WD40!

I fitted a new cylinder a few weeks ago.

I was given the same instructions.

I ignored them. I use powdered graphite.

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Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
*http://www.mirrorservice.org

I was trying to remember what the problem is - it goes sticky doesn't
it ? Maybe that would explain why the sections of my wife's walking
poles ended up as a solid mass.

Rob