I have some cans of bike chain lube. ? These are old ones I don’t like to use on my bike but they have other uses. ?The formulations vary wildly. ?Some are wax-based some are oil with a solvent mixed on some have teflon or graphite. ??

A wax-based lube that has solvent mixed with it works well on tools. ?Just like on a chain, it can flow into the inside and then the solvent flashes off and there is a thin wax coating that does not attract dirt and is mostly water resistant.

The kind I like on my bike is very thin and does not last long, they say “reapply every 200 miles”. Just this morning I cleaned an applied this stuff to a bunch of mini-pliers on the electronics workbench.

If you see some for sale try it.MUCH better then WD40 and about as easy to apply from a spray can.

The only incandescent buthat are tare hard to find now are 100 watt bulbs. 25 W bulbs are available online and in stores everywhere.

Mike Taglieri

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 7:59 AM Joel Blatt via <joelblatt=[email protected]> wrote:

Here in Rust Central, Florida near the ocean, I can make things rust by just looking at them. My solution is to wire two 25 W bulbs in series, and they give out just enough heat. I used 2 ceramic light sockets and put the lamps in the bottom of my cabinet. Might have trouble finding incandescent lamps these days, maybe the heater is a better idea...Joel

On Mar 29, 2024, at 10:06?AM, chrisser via groups.io <chris.kucia@...> wrote:

A good replacement for standard incandescents would be to look into brooder bulbs - used for keeping eggs warm and also for reptiles.

A lot of them put out huge amounts of heat, but there are smaller ones.? Basically designed to skew towards more heat and less light.

There are also ceramic heaters that screw into standard bulb sockets for the same purposes.

This is probably a great solution if you can keep the target equipment in some sort of cabinet or enclosure.?

On Friday, March 29th, 2024 at 12:59 PM, Miket_NYC <mctaglieri@...> wrote:

The only incandescent buthat are tare hard to find now are 100 watt bulbs. 25 W bulbs are available online and in stores everywhere.

Mike Taglieri

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 7:59 AM Joel Blatt via <joelblatt=[email protected]> wrote:

Here in Rust Central, Florida near the ocean, I can make things rust by just looking at them. My solution is to wire two 25 W bulbs in series, and they give out just enough heat. I used 2 ceramic light sockets and put the lamps in the bottom of my cabinet. Might have trouble finding incandescent lamps these days, maybe the heater is a better idea...Joel