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My superpower!
Okay, not much of one, but pretty useful. I can think of at least 7 doors or gates that I've oiled in the past 3.5 years. Four of them in one house: my door, the bathroom door, the front door, and the door of my host's office (the latter two being near my room and quite audible.)
It still seems like magic. I don't use a WD40 can or anything to squirt oil, I just rub olive canola or vegetable oil over the hinge, maybe trying to push some into the cracks via fingernail. Soon enough, silent operation.
My first use was on bicycle folding baskets, where the concern wasn't noise but folding or unfolding smoothly at all. I didn't think it would work but figured it was worth a shot. It worked.
Okay, not much of one, but pretty useful. I can think of at least 7 doors or gates that I've oiled in the past 3.5 years. Four of them in one house: my door, the bathroom door, the front door, and the door of my host's office (the latter two being near my room and quite audible.)
It still seems like magic. I don't use a WD40 can or anything to squirt oil, I just rub olive canola or vegetable oil over the hinge, maybe trying to push some into the cracks via fingernail. Soon enough, silent operation.
My first use was on bicycle folding baskets, where the concern wasn't noise but folding or unfolding smoothly at all. I didn't think it would work but figured it was worth a shot. It worked.