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Where does a guy find a bottle/oil can with a super fine needle-type nose for lubing your steel? Sewing supply shop?

The bottles of "Tri-Flow" that you can get at a bicycle shop come with a plastic tube; "Super Lube" (a similar teflon/oil product) that you can probably get at a fishing tackle shop has a small metal tube; you could try a hobby shop where you'll probably find a small plastic bottle with a top incorporating a plastic or metal tube.

Nathan,

Go to the Carter Guitar site here on the forum or call Ann Fabian at the Carter number .

They sell a small bottle with a tube that extends and / or retracks and will reach any part of you steel you want . They are just perfect for lubrication any and all parts .

John

Thanks very much for the tips, guys.

I got my "NEEDLEPOINT BOTTLE" from Hobby Town USA. You can get different size needles for more or less flow, but the first one I grabbed off the shelf works GREAT. There are 2 Hobby Town USA's in Austin.

I use an gun oil product called "Break Free" which has a needle tube applicator. It's a flow bottle type thing, non-aerosol, which I prefer for neatness. Break Free should be available at most sporting goods stores that handle firearms.

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Radio Shack has a good applicator. It has a long nose and squeeze type container. Also Singer sewing machine has an oiler for sale like you are looking for. I bought one a Wally World.
Erv

I use 2.5 cc syringes (hypodermic needles). They do allow the most accurate application, but they do look...ahem, intimidating (or maybe "incriminating" is a better word). Industrial supply houses normally carry them, as they are used for dispensing fluxes, lubricants, and adhesives in many factories. The ones they sell have the points ground off so they can't comfortably be used for illicit purposes.

Thanks again, fellas - I can't wait to see the look on my wife's face when I come home with gun supplies and/or syringes!

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I use the yellow plastic oiler that fits in the buttstock cavity of an M-14 rifle. When you unscrew the cap, it has a small metal rod attached that you can drip the oil down to where you need it. For some of the harder-to-reach areas on my guitar (like where several pull rods are bunched together), I have a .10" drill bit about 4" long that I dip into the oil and let it drip slowly through the grooves in the tip of the bit.

For years I used Rem-Oil, a light oil designed for firearms; here in Spain it's hard to find readily-available gun-related products, but sewing machine oil can be had. You might have to oil your changer more often with the lightweight stuff, but it's less likely to collect lint and dust.

Just my $.02 worth...

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Walmart fishing department has an oiler with a needle point for fishing reels whoops, that fishin reels!

I noticed in Home Depot the other day a small plastic bottle of graphite with a hypodermic needle type applicator. Is graphite a suitable lubricant for PSG?

Go to a plastic supply store. They have a small plastic bottle with a long needle nose for applying solvent to cement plexiglas together.