I will try marine grease. Normal white lithium lube is what I have always used
in the past but this is a tricky assembly with all the rollers ending up in the
bottom of the transmission case if I get it wrong.
From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2019 7:10 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Axel Grease
That sounds like maybe marine grease.
Chuck, could you use wheel bearing grease, or maybe assembly grease?
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince
Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2019 7:53 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Axel Grease
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:
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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