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Can you go bad with grease?

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:52 pm
by muzafan
As the summer hollydays have started I decided to bing my Decca 22 portable back to life. Im at a point when I succeafully cleaned out the old grease from the spring and now its time to apply a new one.
As I search for the opinion on the right lubricant on the interwebs I found a lot of different opinions. Is there a type of grease that shouldn’t be used on a gramophone spring and are there certain types od motors that would benwfit of a specific grease?

Is there such a thing as wrong grease?

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 4:19 pm
by muzafan
muzafan wrote: Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:52 pm As the summer hollydays have started I decided to bing my Decca 22 portable back to life. Im at a point when I succeafully cleaned out the old grease from the spring and now its time to apply a new one.
As I search for the opinion on the right lubricant on the interwebs I found a lot of different opinions. Is there a type of grease that shouldn’t be used on a gramophone spring and are there certain types od motors that would benwfit of a specific grease?

Re: Can you go bad with grease?

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:10 pm
by Inigo
I use standard lithium grease, alone or mixed with graphite powder. Also Molykote in other motors. Those work fine for me...

Re: Can you go bad with grease?

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:38 pm
by Curt A
Lithium grease, or any good, modern automotive grease - synthetic or not...