CARE OF DOORS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 129, 3 June 1930, Page 15

CARE OF DOORS.

LUBRICATION NECESSARY.

It is to be feared that a lamentably large proportion of car owners fail to appreciate that the door lock, in common with all things mechanical, from time to time requires lubrication. Once every month a little vaseline or even; gear oil should be introduced on the long sprigot, while, thinner oil—say, sewing machine or cycle oil —should be squirted along the latch into the interior of the lo6k. If this simple precaution is neglected it frequently means that the I6ck Works stiffly, and consequently considerable brute force is necessary to induce the door to close. Although motor car doors will stand a great amount of abuse, such treatment must in time have a deleteiious effect, and if neglected for long periods it is even possible that the door may be put out of register with its frame.

Needless to say, a superfluity of. lubrication is to be avoided, otherwise it may easily soil the clothes of driver and passenger when getting out of the car.

Hinges, too, at widely separated intervals, will be all. the better for a spot of oil. A mixture of engine oil and petrol, or vaseline and petrol, squirted in will ensure that the doors open and,close easily and will postpone wear indefinitely.-