Petroeum grease

Cf Gunk White Lithium Grease spray can. Uses perchloroethylene solvent and propane/butane propellant. Great for cosmoline-style storage. Home Depot etc.

I think we all know what's what now, whatever the OP meant by "old fashioned" and not lithium.

Let's hope it isn't what the third world packs into rail car axle bearing boxes.

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:59:16 -0600, Richard J Kinch calmly ranted:

Ugh!

Hey, great idea. 10-ozs. cost $2.99 at AutoZone and it's $5 everywhere else I've looked since I REfoundeded it.

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Motorcycle chain wax does that already.

Alex

Actualy it would be "new" grease. A.

Hehe... maybe close, but for "real, old fashioned type petroleum axle grease" like the rectangular cans of it you saw in "saving private Ryan" for making sticky bombs. That stuff. "I wanna find some" is why I am the "OP" here... any hints???????

Alex

I don't know of any particular suppliers of specialty greases, but there should be some that produce products that aren't the usual stuff that's found in retail stores. One problem with most products today is that they've been modified/adapted to general purpose, one-product-fits-all applications.

Lately I've been using a sticky, thick product sold as an automotive brake caliper lube.. it's a translucent blue synthetic goop that's slippery and stays where it's applied. The label states that it doesn't contain silicone. I've been using it on rack & pinion types of applications (drill press downfeed) and on some gears. So far, it's been working well. The sticky characteristic keeps it pulling itself over the mating parts, so it's not just all displaced away from the place you want it.

When I was doing aircraft maintenance in the early 70s, there were a lot of mil-spec greases that I haven't seen anywhere else. Really thick greases for wheel bearing applications that weren't anything at all like consumer auto parts store greases available today.

I don't care much for the usual thin lithium greases that are sold most places today. I generally don't use white lithium any more. It's OK for places where it's enclosed, but in open air, it dries out quickly and seems to attract any airborne dirt. The drying is probably a migration of the oils, which may be good in certain instances like rusty parts, but not neccessarily good for clean new parts.

If you talked to a petroleum dealer such as Pennzoil, they would probably have some better greases intended for specific applications, although they might only be available in buckets or barrels.

WB ................