"Brian" <blecnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> ":Jerry:" <INVALID@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Brian" <blecnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> What is there to loose? The vehicle if the motor should catch
>> >> fire?!
>> >> There is a difference between 'oilable' bearings and bearings
>> >> designed
>> >> not to be oiled, a lot depends on the design of the motor not
>> >> just
>> >> the
>> >> bearing.
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Of course it might also detonate that thermo-nuclear device that
>> > is
>> > built
>> > into the fan motors on all these french cars, and take out the
>> > city
>> > too.
>>
>> When f*cked, troll....
>>
>> >
>> > The motor if siezed, is more likely to catch fire in its current
>> > state.
>> >
>>
>> Or, more likely, just blow a fuse...
>>
> Which is also what it would do as you so rightly say if the bearing
> was
> oiled and should not have been.
> Foot - bang - ouch.
>
No it would not, why would a fuse blow when the motor is running
normally, the problem with oil is because the motor armature is
flinging any excess oil about, they atomise fuel oil in boilers etc to
make it burn more easily, whilst worn armature bushes are well known
for arcing...


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