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From: pls@sortac.UUCP (P.L.Sullivan)
Newsgroups: net.rec.wood
Subject: Squeaky wagon wheels
Message-ID: <127@sortac.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Dec-85 12:01:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 27 12:01:15 1985
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My brother made his 1 year old daughter a small all-wood wagon
for indoor use only.  The 5 inch wheels are turned from 5/4 walnut
and held onto stationary dowel axles with pegs.  Before installing
the wheels and their pegs, he coated the axles with paraffin.
Upside down on the workbench, the wheels turn smoothly and quietly,
but when his daughter rides in it, they squeak.
She likes this just fine, but the grownups quickly tire of it.

I've always had good luck with paraffin as a wood-to-wood lubricant,
but evidently it's not doing the job here.  The squeak seems to be
coming from the axle and wheel, not from the wheel rubbing on the
pins or the body of the wagon.  Does anyone have any ideas short of
plastic bushings or some such to stop the squeak??

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