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Oiling Commutators ?? WTH!


Jim Kovar

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I use a very light coat of vaseline to lubricate commutators on my C&C and Edison bipolar fans with bronze brushes.   Supposedly carbon brushes can be so lubricated but I don't recall if I had tried vaseline on carbon brushes.

From Mines and Minerals, Dec, 1902, p.233

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