best grease for spring

[joffy]

RRG is bloody horrible stuff to clean out of a piston....brake cleaner won't touch it

[bighit]

RRG is bloody horrible stuff to clean out of a piston....brake cleaner won't touch it

A polisg guy that worked at a place I worked at used RRG in an air starter motor. we filled the gears up with red EP2 grease and he mistook RRG as the EP2 as it was the same colour. . he crammed a full tub of it in the starter.

I fitted the starter and it refused to turn when the air went in. I stripped the starter and found the RRG in it . none of the chemical cleaners we used would remove it . diesel would not remove it either .
In the end a very strong FLOOR cleaner was used to dissolve the RRG .

He had built 5 or so more starters with RRG

[joffy]

Horrible stuff

[jjjohn]

CV Grease from the car spares shop is as good or better than most.
Stick it in a little tub with a gun on the sticker = tripple the price.

[Neil54]

Any grease is better than no grease.
Lithium grease is ok.
Lithium with added molybdenum disulphide is better.
CV joint grease has between 3% and 5% moly added.
Honda 60 grease has 60% moly added and is expensive,also hard to find.

[thisisdonald]

I wonder if the red rubber grease would be good for an old airsporter tap? I know there's a thread about that but I don't think it's mentioned... I think I'll pop over there now

[bighit]

Horrible stuff

Good for its original purpose though.

[Willenium]

I've used a very small amount of RRG (literally a little finger dab smeared the full length of the spring) and then rubbed a bit of high moly content paste on top. At the end of it there's very little there but just enough to stop the spring being completely dry.

[rapidresponse1]

many thanks most usefull

[joffy]

Good for its original purpose though.

I read this reply last night at work and I swear I could smell it

[maximus]

I just use a tub of castrol moly grease but I also have a tub of Venomol grease which I have have had since I was at school! (50 in Oct) Still half full too.