Reply To: magneto oil wick oil or not ??

[drifter]

Back in the day….ok ….way back in the day, I was a field engineer with IBM and serviced high speed punch card machines. These machines employed some large (long) cams that spun at very high speeds. They were always lubed with “grease wicks”. Even in a hot and very dusty environment, these cams always were clean and never scorched. Taking a lesson from this, I make my wicks from the furniture pads and then use a grease, like Corn head, press it into the pad. I really work it in for several minutes, then wipe off any excess. I have never experienced any failure or cam scorching.