Advice on using powdered Teflon?

[gordon stelter]

I have heard recommending that it be mixed with Protek
lubricant and painted on. Last knuckles I did I mixed
it with Naptha ( not much powder needed ) and painted
it on with a little brush. The leather soaked it up
thirstily and it looked nice and neat afterwards.
     Thump

--- Piannaman@aol.com wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 1/13/05 7:28:37 PM Pacific
> Standard Time,  
> gwhitty@optonline.net writes:
> 
> I note in the "glues, lubricants, etc." thread that
> people like  the
> powdered teflon;  I ordered a bottle of it and am
> wondering how  you're all
> getting it to stick.  I tried putting it on a couple
> things  with a little
> brush, but it seems to just kind of fall right off,
> unlike my  bottle of
> ready-mixed graphite/alcohol...
> 
> 
> I usually burnish it in the knuckles with an old
> hammer.  If I need to  do 
> the drop leathers, I'll usually smear it with
> something flat, like the blade  of 
> a screwdriver on the buckskin.  Likewise with key
> bushings.  It's  good for 
> all kinds of skweekies.  Make sure you have
> something to catch it  in or a 
> vacuum to pick up the residue.  It can be a bit
> messy, but unlike  graphite, it 
> won't permanently stain anything...
>  
> Dave Stahl
> 



		
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