[CR]cleaning a rusty spring in a Bluemel's pump

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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:08:17 -0400
From: "Phil Sieg" <triodelover@comcast.net>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]cleaning a rusty spring in a Bluemel's pump

I've just obtained a Bluemel's Tour de France celluloid frame pump. The compression spring - the one inside the handle - is rusty and causes the pump to stick when compressed. Is there a good way to remove the spring without destroying the plastic handle? Clean it in place? I'm pretty sure naval jelly would eat the plastic handle.

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Phil Sieg
Knoxville, Tennessee
USA