[GreenKeys] model 28 cleaning

[Nick England]

Watch out that the compressed air doesn't blow away any small springs.
Guess how I learned that.
Dry sawdust should blow out OK, but the stuff that has mixed with oil will
probably need washing out with kerosene, varsol, WD-40, or whatever your
favorite cleaner/degreaser is. Then re-lube of course.
Sawdust is bound to be easier than that black sound-deadening foam that has
crumbled to dust and then black goo when mixed with TTY oil. Arrgghh.
I have a 28KSR that had been home to a mouse family. I washed it out with
the garden hose, then compressed air, then soaked it with WD-40 spray. Then
it sat waiting its turn for a year or so until I recently put it up on the
bench. After some detail WD-40 and Q-tip work and relubing it is running OK
now.
These machines are truly amazing.
Nick

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:44 AM Bob Camp <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Whatever you do, do it carefully.
>
> I’d start by blowing it out with compressed air. Around here
> that would be a “take it outside” kind of process. The trick is
> to not blow any more of the crud deep into the printer. For
> me that’s going to mean pulling it apart to more easily get
> at things.
>
> Past that, Q tips would be my next goto item.
>
> Bob
>
> > On Feb 7, 2017, at 4:28 AM, Ken Stritzel <stritzel at svs.com> wrote:
> >
> > i have a model 28 that i would like to put in use and when i opened
> > the lid, i saw that the printer is full of sawdust from my son's
> > woodworking.  what is the best way to clean the print mech?
>
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Nick England K4NYW
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