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I notice that the very left edge of the rod looks "greyish" dark. It should be clean and shiny like the rest of the rod. It looks like it needs a deep cleaning with contact cleaner and if need be, acetone. Have you assembled the things you need to do a proper cleaning as above ^^? It is not just a matter of squirting some lube on this thing, the old sticky grey stuff needs to be removed, and inside the riser hole too! Then just a super light coating of moly on the two listed points.
I suspect that somebody long ago squirted the wrong kind of lube there, and it has now gummed up the action of the tilt rod/knob. If it is not turning smoothly it must be particularly filthy at these points. Assuming it does not have mechanical damage.
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