Grease recommendation

[diamond_SEA]

Just wondering what kind of grease everyone uses when reassembling their mechboxes? Lithium grease on the gears and silicon on the cylinder-piston assembly?

[Splashx]

I use G&P grease-oil kit that has every needed : bearing grease, gear grease, cylinder grease and bought silicon oil separately for hop-up and mag. I used systema grease too.

[CDN_Stalker]

I used to use white lithium grease on everything where grease was needed, but the past two years I've been using Gun Slick's Annhydrous Graphite Lube on just about everything (yes, have even used it on piston head O-rings as well as my CA M24's rubber piston head and has not degraded the rubber at all over a two year duration)............ works amazing on GBB slide rails, and 20 or 30 weight silicon oil where oil is needed.

White Lithium Grease on the gears and CA piston grease. I would like to find a cheap silicone based grease to use on the piston tough as the CA is expensive for the small amount.

[diamond_SEA]

a bit off topic from my own thread, but im trying to remove the dam piston head from the piston but the dam screw wont budge. i get maybe a 1/4 turn before it locks up and no matter what i do i cant get it. any ideas?

[Amos]

Look on the inside, There might be a screw head on the inside you need to hold in place with a flat screw driver.

[diamond_SEA]

tried for that, its knob-like with no notches for a screwdriver.

[yanhchan]

I buy the tamiya grease for the cylinder and I use white lithium for the gears

[TokyoSeven]

White lithium for gears

G&P for bearings

Guarder for cylinder

But I usually just use the G&P stuff, since theres 3 seperate bottles for cylinder, bearings and gears.

But I find the guarder lasts longer in my cylinder than the G&P

[pizzainthemorning]

I've got two kinds of grease.

One is a lithium grease from CT that comes in a foot long tube, but it's a pale pale yellow, almost like vaseline.

The other is an automotive grease from a spray can that's white.

I know that description is really, really vague, but anyone know if those would work well (I know the lithium one does work (how well, I don't know) as I've used it before).

Thanks,
Alex

[Skruface]

I use the G&P kits because they're convenient and cheap, but if you can find it, SuperLube (also called ViperLube) is the bomb for AEG gears.

[Qlong]

I heard you cannot use silicon lube from a spray can is this true?

Originally Posted by Qlong

I heard you cannot use silicon lube from a spray can is this true?

Some silicone spray in a can contains petroleum distilates and those are bad for o-rings and stuff. Silicone oil like AI's oil or RC car shock oil is 100% silicone.

[diamond_SEA]

I cant believe its taken me 5 hours and counting to get the piston head screw out, and it still wont budge.

What a waste of a day off.

[CDN_Stalker]

Originally Posted by diamond_SEA

I cant believe its taken me 5 hours and counting to get the piston head screw out, and it still wont budge.

What a waste of a day off.

Utility or Xacto knife, carve out a hole (that looks like one for a counter sunk screw, a very shallow funnel of sorts) until you expose the screw head (only need enough exposed to get a #2 Phillips head onto), then hold the psiton in one hand (wit or without a rag or paper towel) and unscrew the head.

At least that works for TM stock piston heads, others require other means............ CA pistons are the worst, they need a retarded small nutdriver of some unGodly size long enough to reach into the piston body. At least the CA SCAR piston is like that. Still, if replacing a shitty CA piston with a better one, replace the shitty piston head with a better type as well.