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Dgillette4
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Username: Dgillette4

Post Number: 109
Registered: 04-2007

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Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 06:37 am:   

Same here on using a dry shutter. You have to be careful when using distillent cleaners, One is flammable and the other is what some shutters are made of. I use just a pin point of thhhhin oil on pivots and pallates. Once I cleaned an antique apeature mechanism only to have it gum together, found out the blades were made of some type of rubber. copals work dry only the slightest of silcone on pivots. There is all kinds of silicone out there and most has additional byproducts which gum up. There are links on this web site for tools and chemicals, very good . Don

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