I'm afraid I'm with Rob and Alan on this. Yes, you can get away with WD40 most of the time--but it's not made for this purpose and it CAN leave a residue.
Agreed Bob and then you have maybe a month to change the part!
Dave.
I'm afraid I'm with Rob and Alan on this. Yes, you can get away with WD40 most of the time--but it's not made for this purpose and it CAN leave a residue.
Changing a 100mm motorised fader is rather more expensive than a can of DeOxit!
I wanted to buy a pedal steel guitar, and they are humungous amounts of money, and scarce second hand, so the advice I got was wait until you see one on ebay being sold cheap because it goes out of tune, and the owner cannot fix it, and snatch it up for a song. Remove the changer and clean out all the WD-40 they lubricated it with, and replace it with silicone spray. WD-40 apparently always gets used, and lasts about three months and then starts to get sticky and the dust, which is the cause, just wrecks them. I waited and eventually found one with the declared fault. Cleaned it all off, re-lubricated with the correct stuff and it's been perfect. The solvent in WD-40 evaporates, but the lubricant doesn't.
That's odd, because it's the recommended lubricant for steel guitar changers, and mines been three years plus on the one lubrication and tuning is still spot on - is there a heat/pressure thing on guns? Over here we don't get to know about guns - 59 years old and the only time somebody gave me one was on an event where we did clay pigeon shooting, and they gave me a gun. I fired it once and handed the thing back - I'm totally dangerous with anything that goes bang! A few people here had licences for competition guns, but in one of our Government schemes, many handed their weapons in, and cancelled the licences. Apart from criminals, few people here have even held one!
In my experience, cords can be crap right out of the package. Nothing has given me more frustration.