Tried lubricating a door track with cooking spray and learned my lesson fast

Sprayed some Pam on a sticky elevator door track last Tuesday to get through a quick fix, and the next call was the doors slipping every time they tried to close. Anyone else have a weird makeshift lube backfire on them?

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ryang771d ago

I mean sure, cooking spray is mostly oil and that might seem like a fine idea at first, but in my experience it's just asking for trouble because it gets sticky and gummy after a little while. Your mileage may vary, but I'm not sure a quick fix like that really warranted all that dramatic of a lesson unless it's a high traffic elevator that stops working completely. A little spray on a track isn't going to make the whole system fail overnight, maybe just slow it down a bit until it dries out. Honestly, unless the door was slamming shut on people, I'd say take this with a grain of salt and just wipe it down with a dry rag next time.

thompson.robin1d ago

Oh man, @ryang77 you hit the nail on the head with this. I tried the cooking spray trick once on a sticky sliding closet door and it was a total disaster. It worked great for like two days, then everything got this nasty, tacky film that actually made the door harder to slide than before. I ended up having to scrub the whole track with degreaser to get the gunk off. A dry rag is definitely the way better move unless you want to make a bigger mess.

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