What type of oil is suitable for the felt lubricating the points cam, besides "felt oil"?
In your case I would use common motor oil. If it is as dry as a bone, then I would work some grease into the felt and the add a drop of oil. When I changed points I would put a little grease on the backside of the rubbing block. As the rubbing block would wear, it would also pick up a bit of the grease. Dont use too much. Grease and oil is a terrific insulator. Sometimes one of the fellows would get in the bad habit of not cleaning the points upon installation. Eventually he would spend a bunch of time trying to figure out why he didn't have any spark and would quickly get back into the habit. Every now and then someone would put a little vaseline on the points as a prank. Never leave the cover off with a new set of points installed and go to lunch. It is likely not to start after lunch. pierce
My '76 CJ360T Honda Shop Manual says to "Lubricate the breaker point cam with a thin film of grease." I put general-purpose grease in the felt wiper too.
Well, if you don't want to be cruel to felts, please be consistent and don't use the oil from neats' feet either. ...especially if the Neats' Protection Society still exists within rec.motorcycles! Or was that naugas and their hides? I get confused these days... [Before people wave their Funk & Wagnalls at me, I do know the origin of neat's-foot oil.] -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD, DT175MX "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO# 003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Naugas are extinct -- probably due to all the naugahyde furniture back in the 60s & 70s. Neats aren't extinct, but they need help breeding, since they can't run after mates (what with all their feet having been pressed for oil...)....
Neats are nasty critters. I would tell you my experience hunting neats but my therapist tells me that I shouldn't so I won't. The only thing I can say is to stay away from them. If you don't know what they look like, trust me you will know it when you see one as they look like...well...uh, Neats! I have actually seen a real Nauga that came from one of the Naugahyde farms. I even held the critter in my hand for a while once. Then the little bastard bit me so I drop kicked him. Then I picked him up and he was much better behaved. He never bit me again. They are quite rare critters in the wild. Oh yes, his name was Norrie. No one would tell me if there was any significance to his name. He allegedly had a girlfriend but she left him. It was rumored that she just didn't like the noises he made when he would do the nasty with her. I think she was kidnapped by a band of Danish style seatcovers. The whole thing was rather disturbing. pierce
