For those who get the digest or for some reason don't get pix inserted, all four of the posted pictures are at
http://starship-enterprises.net/files/postedEv'sPix/
Spaceman wrote:
What I found inside looked a lot like Green Goddess salad dressing. That's because they are similar, oil and water emulsion. After letting the gears drip for a while, we flipped the mixer and I wiped the gears down as much as possible, trying to remove as much of the emulsion as possible. Since there are lots of places for the liquid to hide, it was impossible to get it all out without a complete tear down or better equipment than we had on site. When we refilled it with oil, topping it off as much as possible, we rotated the gears some and observed that some of the emulsion was being mixed into the new oil by the gears. That made an interesting pattern and Evelyn took a couple of shots of it. The gears looked to all be in good shape, no apparent wear or excessive rust from the emulsion.
Evelyn said she's doing a painting from the crop - maybe she'll share a photo of the painting?
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