The lithium stuff is great as far as lubrication goes, but most of the
lithium greases I have seen are much thinner viscosity compared to the
marine grease.
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On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 7:33 AM Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
> 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
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>
> That sounds like maybe marine grease.
>
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>
> Chuck, could you use wheel bearing grease, or maybe assembly grease?
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> *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
>
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>
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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.
>
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>
> I could take a picture of it, but that container must be 30 years old...
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> bp
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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.
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>
> Anyone know of a super thick and sticky grease?
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