Less oil, longer lives your motor and brushes

John

In the UK you should be able to find: 'J.D Windle's 'Tried and Trusted' CLOCK OIL' or 'Priory Clock Oil' on Ebay. I use the medium viscosity mineral version on locos etc, also old cameras...and even clocks.

It is clear and quite light.

Yes Faller also sell this one which is what I use:

https://www.faller.de/gb...cator-25-ml-sid9750.html

Hi Rwill

Given that you need to use very very small quantities of oil, I have transferred the small quantity of Märklin oil into a disposable small syringe.
A small Märklin bottle is good for years and a very tiny drop is used at lubrication.

Because of a huge variety of oils, I prefer not to mix them (aka: I use Märklin oil and grease on Märklin stuff).

I don't know if this is the reason but I never a single time had a case of a solid frozen loco because of hardened oil on more than 100 locos some of them being over 70 years old

Faller oil is perfect for plastics as it does not attack the plastic.
I use Rocrail which also keep tracks of operating hours for each loco to signal when a maintenance is due on a loco. This avoids forgetting or over servicing locos.

Cheers

Jean