A PROBLEM

NZ Truth, Issue 1105, 3 February 1927, Page 14

A PROBLEM

Those Instruction Books! "All Instruction books are bun* kum," said "E.X.8." when he arrived at the" office this morning. We inquired, gently, the ca\ise of his complaint and he told: us the story of his Bendix 'starter gear. MR, BENDIX, if there' is really somebody with that extraordinary name— said "E.X.B." — has often told us, by advertisements, and instruction booklets, that we must take all care to keep oil off his precious starter gear. Well, I have been troubled with an intermittent tap m my engine for weeks, and traced it to the>starter gear rapping on the flywheel. With great care I got the starter motor out on the .bench and removed all trace ot ,oil from the thread. • Shining, spotless and oil-less, the whole fitting assumed the appearance evidently so much desired by the maker. I put it back — and it was miles worse than before. . Well, there she was, just ,as the makers said she should be, and she wouldn't work. . . I took the shortest way ""to find things out, and (making sure that none of Mr. Bendix> representatives saw me) I dropped a couple of. spots of 3-in-one on the gear, sinee /when it has functioned perfectly. ) Perhaps something will happen when the oil -gets a bit sticky, but I don't care. . ■ •■ ■' "; . ..• ■ _.- ■> .- If I do have to clean the gear and give It fresh oil every, few months, I have a least got rid of the tap which has. been a load on my mind lately. Please apologise to those readers who have kept their Bendix gears oil-less on my advice and— if they have the same trouble— tell them to- try my remedy; '■-„ [ Having 'unloaded his mind of this piece of advice, "E.X.8." wandered off again and we heard the whizz of his starter as he tried his "Bendix" once more.