Grease Gear Grease??!!??

[pamparius]

heyyy...
i'm doing my first attempt to do re-shimming my gears, while the gears are already on the loose im thinking to clean em and re-grease them, but i just wonder which grease is good for those gears?? i heard some people are using white lithium grease... my friend gave me Tamiya molybdenum grease...

soo... any of you have other brand recommendations?? because it's just confusing for me to go to the hardware store and to pick one of hundreds grease with different type and brands.....

[Darklen]

White Litium grease. Get something like Lith-Ease from Canadian tire. I use Locktite white lithium grease, but I work for a dealer so it's cheap.

[Styrak]

Yup, white lithium grease.

[McKee]

People keep saying white lithium grease but white lithium grease actually has petroleum distillates in it which attack rubber. Now if you lube your piston slide channels which is a critical area of friction, you're bound to get some on your O-Rings...

I bought a tube of Super Lube at the recommendation of Gump. Stuff is completely synthetic so it wont attack rubber.

[Styrak]

Originally Posted by Sentry

People keep saying white lithium grease but white lithium grease actually has petroleum distillates in it which attack rubber. Now if you lube your piston slide channels which is a critical area of friction, you're bound to get some on your O-Rings...

I bought a tube of Super Lube at the recommendation of Gump. Stuff is completely synthetic so it wont attack rubber.

He was asking about lube for gears, so I assumed he wouldn't be putting it on the cylinder.

[TokyoSeven]

Never had any issues using Lith-Ease. Works well on gears for me.