"ROBERT SAYRE" wrote to "GREG MAYMAN" (08 Dec 02  18:29:00)
 --- on the topic of "TRAFFIC LIGHT"

 GM> The only door dampers I know either use air (the cheap ones that
 GM> "die" when the piston rubber shrinks) or oil, where the viscosity
 GM> doesn't change enough to matter.

 GM> I can't imagine how they would make grease filled ones work
 GM> reliably over a wide range of temperatures...

 RS> Corning silicon grease (damping fluid).

BTW, thanks for the tip. Just remembered seeing another type of door
damping which used something like a clockwork escapement with a friction
wheel on a rubber track. I think it was an Akai tape deck mechanism.

 Mike
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