CHECKED ON MOTOR THIS AFTERNOON AND WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED
I was expecting that I would have to disassemble the motor to clean out the bearings but when I touched the pulley I found that it would spin with little force. The torque required to turn the pulley, lets call it 10 when I first tried the motor, is now down to somewhere less than 1 on the same scale.
The clock oil did its thing, seeping in between the old lubricants and the metal surfaces. Within a couple of turns it was as good as when the motor was new in the 1960s. I will do one final test with AC applied to be certain that it starts and spins, then it goes back into the printer.
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