[GreenKeys] Magic Cleaners

[Jim Haynes]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, George B. Hutchison wrote:

> Jim Haynes, have you anything to add to my short stand on the soap
> box??
>
> George - W7TTY

Can't really think of anything to add.  The late Chuck Cook W6SCR
had a Teletype repair business, before Teletype Corp. got into the
business, and I believe his procedure was a soak of the complete
machine in kerosene.  Or maybe it was diesel oil.  Which reminds me
of stopping at a gas station in Tennessee earlier this year and one
of the pumps was labeled kerosene - maybe that's what they sold instead
of diesel oil - but I digress.

When I first put together a Model 15 out of parts given me by
Ray Morrison I took it all apart and used Gunk, knowing of that substance
from the airplane business and I don't think 409 or Simple Green were
around back then (1959)  I later learned from the manual that I had
taken apart some things that were not meant to be taken apart,
supposedly required special tools at the factory to assemble, but
the machine worked OK anyway.