RUSTY SPRINGS.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 137, 6 December 1918, Page 4

RUSTY SPRINGS.

When ■ springs (jet 'rusty the treatment usually adopted is the insertion of either grease or vaseline between the leave*. This has a very good effect, the only drawback being that the groase 6oon squeezes out, ospetially towards the end of the blades. Better nnd more durable results are obtained with a mixture of tallow and graphite. A correspondent stated some tlmo ago that ho bought cix cheap dip candles of Russian; tallow, melted them down, and, Avhen liquid, stirred in a halfpound o£ powdered graphite. This mixture he applied hot, when it was of the consistency of tliiok cream. He forced it in with the helpjof. an old knife, . and found it a distinct; improvement on either grease or vaseline. Motoristo who have tested the merits of this recipe say that it is rery good. .'•' . In the experience of many the springs give very Httlo trouble, if they are provided with gaiters. Tho goiters should consist of a. felt pad fashioned like a trough and containing a quantity of grease or tallow-graphite mixture This pad lies against the 6pring where the leaves, overlap ; and. as they alternately compress and rebound, the lubricant circulates between the blades. The lacing is- always below, and so water can never ponetrata. The gaiters are made of a specially-pre-pared greaso-rotaining material, and, outside, ha.vo'a polished black surface, which is easily cleaned by wiping it with a cloth. They improvo distinctly the appearance of a car, and are equally suitable Jbr all kinds of leaf springs. It may further be said of tliem that they add materially to the durability of springs, for, when theso are kept clean and well lubricated, they are less likely to 6nap than when rusty and inflexible.