Kind of like this stuff:
https://www.amazon.com/Sta-Lube-SL3121-Trailer-Bearing-Fluid_Ounces/dp/B000CPJMY8?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B000CPJMY8
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On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 5:53 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And isn't Axel a person's name? I thought the thing a tire rotates on is
> an axle.
>
> Don't pay attention to me. Get off my lawn!
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> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 5:52 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> There is some stuff that I have from back in motorcycle days. I don't
>> remember where I got it, but it said "salt water resistant" on the package.
>> I still use it (the little container lasts a long, long, LONG time). I use
>> it to lube the PTO shaft on the tractor and mower. Also use it on the hitch
>> pins/draw pins for different accessories. Very sticky stuff, but it's not
>> black. More like a dark brown.
>>
>> I could take a picture of it, but that container must be 30 years old...
>>
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>> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 5:35 PM Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
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>>> When I was a kid, my grandfather had a container of axel grease. Like
>>> grease the hubs/axels of a horse drawn vehicle axel grease. It was sticky
>>> nasty black stuff. The only use I knew about was he would grease the ball
>>> hitch on his car prior to pulling his camp trailer.
>>>
>>> Tomorrow I start the reassembly of a big ol dump truck transmission.
>>> One of the things I will need to do is to mate the input shaft to the main
>>> shaft and the input shaft has a bunch of needle bearings inside. Always a
>>> touchy thing. You grease up the input shaft, carefully place the bearings
>>> and hope they do not fall out during assembly.
>>>
>>> I wish I had some of my grandfather’s axel grease. I am considering
>>> melting some paraffin and adding some grease to make a sticky facsimile of
>>> what I remember.
>>>
>>> Anyone know of a super thick and sticky grease?
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