Chequered Flag Racing
07-12-2010, 08:23 AM
What would we do without the ball point pen spring and vaseline :woot:
Last night the pair of them brought back to life a ceiling light switch in my mothers bungalow at 20:05. The original spring had broken a couple of coils off and when I tried to stretch it it snapped as it had gone brittle. So out came the ball point pens to donate a spring. Found one and lubed the mechanism with vaseline and hey presto, all is working fine :thumbsup:. She has a new switch which will be installed sooner rather than later.
Don't think the springs are big enough for RC cars though :D
Post about how you've used of vaseline only if you don't want it deleting :woot:
Did have a video but due to lack of skills on those pesky mobile phone thingys I forgot to save it :blush:
What other uses have you put the little spring to?
Last night the pair of them brought back to life a ceiling light switch in my mothers bungalow at 20:05. The original spring had broken a couple of coils off and when I tried to stretch it it snapped as it had gone brittle. So out came the ball point pens to donate a spring. Found one and lubed the mechanism with vaseline and hey presto, all is working fine :thumbsup:. She has a new switch which will be installed sooner rather than later.
Don't think the springs are big enough for RC cars though :D
Post about how you've used of vaseline only if you don't want it deleting :woot:
Did have a video but due to lack of skills on those pesky mobile phone thingys I forgot to save it :blush:
What other uses have you put the little spring to?