After I started rebuilding machinery and began pouring my own babbit bearings, I became interested in oils and greases. It is much preferable to maintain good equipment than have to restore it I found out. There are many containers of lubricants with names in different languages on the shelves, and a few might cause animal rights groups to want to picket my shop. I still need to retrieve the big plastic container that fell down behind the lathe, in it are four or five different brands of grease, including the sticky Nippon Denso synthetic one that works good for making a mosquito trap (big ones here). For hubs and other components, I like WTB (Wilderness Trail Bikes) goose grease, a white grease. It comes in a tube and seems to last. Their grease gun is also excellent. A lot of bike shops carry this brand. This is a unaffiliated endorsement.
Dennis Young Where the sometimes unfriendly bears are coming out of hibernation in Hotaka, Japan
> Since we are on the topic of grease maybe our esteemed list master will
> let this slide. What are the members using for grease now? Period
> correctness when grease
> is concerened is not all that practical, especially when you ran out of
> the nice
> white silky stuff long ago.
>
> So, what brands and for what application are people using now? Lately
> I've been
> using something called Special HCF Grease for Bicycles on most
> everything. Tried
> to score some Bullshot awhile ago but that didn't work out.
>
> Mike "I got chills, they're multiplyin" Wilkinson
> Castle Rock, CO