[Accrs] Club Lock problems

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

Graphite lubeis what is to be used on locks, not oil...

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 8:08 AM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Levi Boston  levi_boston at yahoo.com
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> Hey guys.  Has anyone tried simply lubricating the locks as they are in
> fowl weather all the time? Graphite lube works wonders.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Jan 3, 2017, at 9:22 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
> accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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> > Message From: Gary Lewis  glgslewis at comcast.net
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> > I think that's over kill considering we haven't had break ins caused by
> bad locks.  Let's replace what we have with the same thing  and when they
> start having issues, we replace them.  Going that route, we'll all be dead
> before we spend as much as the other locks will cost.  BTW, Dean and I were
> there working on the layout Wednesday morning.  We left around 1:00 and I
> locked the door.  It took several tries with everything set on zeros, to
> get it to hold.  I gave it a couple good pulls and left.  I think it's
> better to get it to hold and then spin a couple of the wheels off of the
> position when locked.   I didn't do that when I left.  Let's get a couple
> new locks of the same type.  That's my vote.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Accrs [mailto:accrs-bounces at mail.accrs.org] On Behalf Of Alameda
> County Central Railroad Society
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 8:28 PM
> > To: accrs at mail.accrs.org
> > Subject: Re: [Accrs] Club Lock problems
> >
> > Message From: Ed kinder  edkinder at gmail.com
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> >
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> >
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