Squeaking door

[Backwoods Savage]

Greetings to all:

This is not a woodstove related question, but is the same principle.

On another forum, a lady asked about a squeaky hinge on her oven door. With oven temperatures reaching 450 on some recipies, what might one use to grease that squeaky hinge. I'm at a loss on that one. Any ideas?

 

[elkimmeg]

powder grafite

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Never thought of that. Thanks and I'll post that for her.

 

[Eric Johnson]

You can buy powdered graphite which, as elk points out, works great. If you don't have any powdered graphite handy, try pulverizing some pencil leads.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Ya Eric. Most people up here keep that on hand for door locks. I just never thought of it for use around heat. Thanks for your reply. btw, I like your signature! We too like to control those things. Fortunately, right now the supply is pretty large but some still needs splitting. I like to do that in the Sping if possible. Right now that crusty snow makes walking around in the woods a little tough on this old body.

 

[Hinterlander]

I tried the powdered graphite before but had a hard time getting it to stick to the hinge pins. I tried using a carpenter's pencil with a wide graphite and coating the pins with graphite that way, and it works, but not for long. Plus, with stove running 400 - 500 degrees almost all the time, it has to be done with a pair of slip joint pliars. Then, I used some copper-based anti-seize that I've used on spark plugs in engines with aluminum cylinder heads and that worked great, but only for about two weeks. Any suggestions on how to apply the powdered graphite so that it sticks to the hinges a little better?

 

[rickw]

I've been trying Dow Corning high vacuum grease (silicone grease) on my Lopi Answer insert hinge pins. So far (1 month) it works great. Its supposed to be good for 500 F.

Had to something. Its bad enough to reload it twice a night; without also waking up the entire house....

 

[wg_bent]

I've tried powdered graphite, but I'll tell you Pedros dry lube (PTFE aka teflon) is a whole lot better. Needs to be reapplied about once a month, but it's way slicker.

 

[Gooserider]

How is the door mounted? If it's on hinge pins, I'd consider lifting the pins and painting them with high temp "Never-Seize" (My favorite general purpose lube for slow moving parts without bearings or other explicit lube requirements). If the hinge is of the "bolt through two ears" variety, I'd probably do the same, along with getting the pivot points. Possibly back off on the bolt tension a skoshe...

Gooserider

 

[restorer]

How is the door mounted? If it's on hinge pins, I'd consider lifting the pins and painting them with high temp "Never-Seize" (My favorite general purpose lube for slow moving parts without bearings or other explicit lube requirements). If the hinge is of the "bolt through two ears" variety, I'd probably do the same, along with getting the pivot points. Possibly back off on the bolt tension a skoshe...

Gooserider

I'm with Goose on this one. I'd spend a little time diagnosing why you have that loud of a squeak. Something is binding. Loosening the binding hinge, re-aligning the halves, or adding a spacer may dramatically improve the noise. A stainless washer with a dab of never seize may eliminate the problem.

 

[WarmGuy]

My Regency door has squeaked for years -- but I like it, and leave it that way so that I can tell, when I'm still half asleep in bed that the wife has started the fire.

 

[Homefire]

Buy some high temp heat grease from the local plumbing supply house or the farm store.