Anyone use graphite spray for TS lubrication?

Anyone every use graphite spray for to lub the "innards" of their TS?

I came across this :

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read here that graphite powder is the best thing to useworks great - but were do you find it?

I also came across this little receipe : "Buy a small package of dry graphite powder at your local auto supply store (~$2). Get one of the large baby glass jars (one step up from the small ones) and pour 1/2 of the graphite into the jar. Now start adding a spoonful or two of Johnson's or Butchers wax and stir well. Keep adding graphite, wax and mixing until the jar is about 3/4 full. This should give you a very black looking wax full of graphite to lube your gears and it will not attract sawdust. If needed, add a drop or two of mineral spirits to thin if the wax is hard - but not to much. If you add to much, leave the lid off the jar for a few days so it can evaporate out."

I checked out my local pep boys and asked for graphite powder - they had no idea what I was talking about.

Any help would be appreciated??

Thanks

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Rob V
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Try a good hardware store. They should have graphite powder. It's pretty common stuff.

Brian

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Brian Mahaney

Rob V asks:

You mean the clerk didn't know. Ask for door lock lube. That's dry graphite powder, usually in a plastic tube that you squeeze lightly to send a puff into the lock interior.

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> Ive read here that graphite powder is the best thing to useworks great - but

Try an automotive store or Ace hardware. See:

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Nova

A real hardware store like an independent "Mom & Pop" hardware or Ace or Tru-Value will have it.

So will Sears, in the hardware department.

Home centers like Lowe's or Home Depot might have it, but a real hardware store is a better bet.

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Note that you don't want to use graphite from a spray can for that recipe, you want powdered graphite in a tube. Specifically, you want *dry* graphite; some brands are graphite suspended in light machine oil, and you don't want that either.

If you tell them it's for lubricating car door locks, they'll probably be able to find it, even if they don't know what it is.

Any of the following:

- a real hardware store

- the hardware department at Sears

- an auto parts store where employees have at least half a clue (try a NAPA)

- a locksmith

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Doug Miller

Look here under product 423

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> Ive read here that graphite powder is the best thing to useworks great - but

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frankcw

Yep, asking for powdered graphite versus graphite powder might have done the trick.

The less they understand, the more literal folks are.

I like "slide plate" spray.

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George

Perhaps, but that wasn't the point. Rather, the idea was that while the typical parts-store drone might have no idea what graphite is, there's a decent chance he could point you toward the stuff that's used as door lock lubricant.

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Doug Miller

Look for a "dry lock lubricant". One product is named "lock-eze" or something similar to that. As for the recipe, if you like mixing stuff together like that, fine, but I get good results just using plain wax.

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Lawrence Wasserman

It was my point. You were merely the first to use the phrase.

Some lock lubricants also have oils and such, so you'd have to have specified dry.

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George

The drone is going to point you at a shelf full of cans. You should be able to read the labels yourself at that point.

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J. Clarke

Where I shop, "powdered graphite" is very different stuff to "lock lubricating graphite". If it's as a lubricant, then you want flake or colloidal graphite. Just asking for powder (unless you specify it as a lubricant) might get you anything from activated charcoal to buckyballs.

BTW - When you've used this stuff, put it away _carefully_ and don;t store it in glass. You wouldn't believe the mess if you drop it.

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Andy Dingley

Well, you may be the first to have grasped the point I tried to make - "powdered graphite" versus "graphite powder" makes a lot of difference to someone who's only seen the one word combination, and, as one obtuse critic mentioned it, not all lock lubes and free-up solutions are either of the above.

I still recall my innocent young bride returning from the PX without the requested shoe polish, because "all they had was 'boot polish'."

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George

Buckyballs? Heck of a woodworking supply shop! I've heard of micro tools, but this opens up some new possibilities.

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UA100, who did use graphite spray once on his saw and liked it well enough but you gotta watch for the staining...

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You'll wish you never asked:

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