Originally Posted by
Mickey2
I somehow ended up describing Triflow as a pure sewing machine oil, I meant to write, "you could get something like Triflowr, or a pure sewing machine oil", In other words, two good alternatives. Sorry about that. Triflow has a few additives that work well with vintage machines. Not all oils do.
Bkay, a thing I recently discovered about old type writers, is most of them were meant to run on nothings, at least the joints and arms that hit the paper. They should ideally be totally clean, maybe some parts used lubricant.
I know nothing about typewriters, but my friend was a typewriter mechanic in the Air Force, then continued it in civilian life on into word processing machines. He currently gets paid big bucks to rebuild old IBM Selectrics.
I don't know exactly what he uses it for, but it has to do with cleaning the really old ones. It is a three step process and one of the steps uses sewing machine oil. I would assume he knows what he's doing.
bkay