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Teflon vs bronze?

PiercedBill

PiercedBill

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Is there any noticeable difference replacing Teflon washers with bronze washers? Bronze with Teflon?
Good idea? Bad idea? Or complete waste of time?
What are your opinions??
 
I prefer bronze washers. While they do require occasional oiling, at least they don't tear/wrinkle and jam up the pivot.
Rich
 
Here's a very used knife with teflon washers.
It's been cycled tens (maybe hundreds)of thousands of times, still tight and butter smooth.
Thought I might replace them with bronze when they wear out, but that might be another 20 years.

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Teflon has a much lower coefficient of friction, but typically shows high wear rates.
 
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