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CoronaL
07-25-2008, 08:28 AM
I owe this to a book I just read. I beleive my Lee Child, I forget which title as I've read most of his 'Jack Reacher' novels in the past 3 weeks, but I beleive it's "Without Fail". And before anyone comments, no they were not applying helicopter canopies in the book.

Anywho, I was having a bit of an issue on getting my canopy grommets to "easily" slide onto the canopy posts. Used a bit of squalene oil to help them slide on easily. Now it's really hard to come by hehe as there are only a few sources of it, one of which is shark liver. Another is our human nose/forhead oil. I know I can fry a slab of bacon by the end of the day my forhead gets so oily :mad:, bought damm time I put it to use hehe!.

Wipe your thumb and index finger on your nose/forehead, and then rub it on canopy post!

Anyway, thought someone might get some use out of this as it's a cheap/free easy way to get that canopy on :)

Edvard R
07-27-2008, 02:21 AM
It sounds a little gross, but if this works, I almost wish I had a teenager in the house for steady supply...:P

4cyclic
07-27-2008, 12:34 PM
I rub Triflow oil on the posts , works too and less icky !

harryboe
07-28-2008, 05:50 AM
The align silicon grease from the kit workes perfect for that ;)