On Nov 16, 10:40*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
Nix the cooking oil. It rapidly grows rancid. Sticky, and
then worse than useless.

My fav is silicone spray, which doesn't attract dust.

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"terry" wrote in message

...

Oh btw hair tends to get caught around the ends of the
beater bar.
Those ends can be removed, hair and other gubbins (cotton
strands etc.
removed) *the bearing ends lightly oiled or (even a bit of
cooking oil
or hand cream!) and reassembled.

Agree on the cooking oil, but the little smear on the very small area
of bearing on end of the beater bar, not likely to be a problem. If
not that; something else 'greasy' around the house will often do! I
seem to remember using a dab of bacon fat once for something!
Relative rented an empty summer property couple of years ago, was sent
through the mail a brand new, never used key. Arriving at the location
rough edges of the new key meant that the young woman could not get
key into the lock, let alone turn it.
However by rubbing with a stone picked up off the ground and applying
a little hand cream she was able to get entry and after that the key
got more 'used' and worked fine. There is often a way!
Not even Maciver!