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I'll stick to Vicks then!

I bet it would help to lubricate your sinuses though if you were to snort it!

Pretty useless then when it comes to customer support! I think I'll steer well clear of it and stick to the tried and tested products.

For £3.50 inc. delivery I think it makes sense and will save me grinding down loads of pencils! A 50g bottle should last me a while as well. Incidentally, I see that WD40 now do what they call a "dry" spray. It uses PTFE, so I wonder if this would be any good a general lubricant for the me...

Have just bought the following item from Amazon, should do the job:

Thanks Badpenny. I think next time I'll use the 3-in-1 oil from the can rather than the spay version, as then I can use it more sparingly! Looks like a stripping down and cleaning of the coin slide is next job on the to do list!!

Just like fight club eh! I use graphite powder on the nut of my guitars, I just grind down a pencil lead and use the powder from the pencil. I've been told that it's graphite, so I'm assuming I can also use this on the slides? If I leave it as is and don't clean the 3-in1 oil off the coin slides the...

Not tried Leetch yet, I do like a drop of Tskie though, so I'll have to give Leech a try. Re the coin slides, I'm guessing that 3-in-1 oil in coin slides isn't a good thing? I'm afraid that in my naivety I may have sprayed the coin slides as well. Does this mean that I'll have to strip them down now...

Your self confidence in tackling the Governor escalator again is sound ..... except that, due to the Flux of The Earth you will now never have to touch one again. Even deliberately trying to foul it up, in order to be able to spring into action with your Swiss Army Knife will be a series of non eve...

I took your advice and ran all the tests. I was then able to locate what I think must be the slide brake (as pictured) and concluded that the part that holds the slides forward had jumped out. I was able to manually push all the slides forward, which enabled the brake to drop back down into place. I...

Sorry about the photos, to be honest I wasn't really sure what to take photos of so just took some random ones in the hope that someone might be able to spot the problem. Anyway thanks very much for your advice and I'll try running through all the steps you've suggested and will let you know how I g...

Thanks Alex, I am a complete novice, so I was chuffed that I was able to get it sorted. The latest issue is that it's not paying out any more. I think by messing around with the payout levers, I might have put it out of sync. I can get it to pay out, but I have to pull the levers back from underneat...

Funnily enough I did sell one of my bandits a couple of years back through ebay. The chap that bought it ran his own travelling penny arcade. I don't know if I'd bother selling on there now as you seem to need a gaming licence. Although having said that, I never had one when I sold mine, but maybe t...

Very true BP, the escalator runs like a dream now, so I'll probably never have to touch it again, The payout however, well that's a different matter! Despite what I said in my last post, it doesn't seem to be paying out on single cherry, so back to the drawing board. Thanks for the tip on the Grosve...

Further to my last post I think it was a stuck coin causing the problem. I took all the coins out of the payout tube, reset the jackpots and all seems fine now. Well it paid out correctly on 2 cherries! Thanks again to everyone for your help. My next project will be to get my old Aristocrat Grosveno...

Also, well done on dismantling the escalator and the re-mantling it after. If you can do that, there's little you should feel shy about tackling. Thanks for the feedback and I definitely felt a sense of fulfilment when I put it back together and there were no spare bits left over! I reckon if I eve...

Thanks everyone for all your help and advice. I stripped the escalator down this morning, removed the chain and soaked the whole lot in bike chain cleaner (this was the harshest stuff I had in the house). I then cleaned it well with wire wool, followed by a good scrub with a toothbrush. I then dried...

Thanks for the replies and tips on using a pipe cleaner. I don't have any thinners in the house but I do have lots of white spirit. Would this be any good for soaking the parts or would I need something stronger?

Cheers,
Adam

Thanks Raj. What solvents would you usually recommend? Ideally something that's easy to get hold of. Cheers, Adam

Just to update; I've spent a couple of hours on the escalator to tonight. The left hand side seems to be working fine now and the chain is moving along fine. The issue I have now is that the cog wheel on the right hand side (the one with the four pointed part) doesn't always make a complete turn mea...