Texasmark
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I seldom visit this site but am compelled to do so today. I wanted to grease my trailer hubs and I liked the grease I used previously which of a peculiar color and made specifically for marine trailer bearings...had a nice stickiness about it that you couldn't hardly wash off your hands, much less your bearings...... was in a gun supplied with my boat when I bought it. I have since used the grease elsewhere and looking for replacement.
So I get on www and ask the first question: Why do people say that you can't mix greases of different types? Checked several sites and really didn't get any plausible answer. Main content was that they wouldn't/may not, mix well with because of (possibly) different additives.
Okaye, lets explore this . Say I have a hub with pink grease and add grease of a different type that is chartreuse. The pink is in first and upon adding the other as I rotate the spindle, I come up with a mixture that looks like Hershey's chocolate just being stirred into a glass of milk!!!!!! I have the hub packed but the greases don't mix, but both greases find their way between the revolving and stationary steel surfaces and lubricate as they do.......did I miss something?
Situation #2: I check out a site that is for high speed offshore boats with 1000 hp engines, 150 mph and all that, triple axle trailers and all. Get the usual garden variety of what people think is the "only thing to use". Most of the respondents swear by Mystic JT-6 and how it is a lower temp grease that lubricates when the axles are cold whereas the high temp greases don't melt and don't lubricate.......scuse me?????
Common sense would tell one that if, for some reason, the grease would separate itself from the metal part to which it so admirably attached itself "when hot" if you will, and now the cold temp causes it to quit lubricating......geez, let's see, steel on steel, carrying a load rotating at reasonable to moderately high speed.....friction-heat-elevated temperature-where's the high temp grease to stay put and not run out at these higher temps???? Hello! Grease melts, flows over the points of friction, bearings cool down......what can I say.
I used Mystic JT-6 for years (purchased from Gebo's Farm and Ranch store locally) for everything on the farm. I bought it because it is a high temp, waterproof, high pressure grease......never had a bearing nor bushing fail, nor any other moving part greased with high temp (red) grease of any origin.
Since my grease guns are packed with high temp grease, I may just add it to my Bearing Buddies and dare them to fail.
Advice here and elsewhere is worth just what you pay for it. UGH! That's why, when I answer someone's post, I authenticate my reply as to whim, experience, or referenced fact and supply the reference.....eliminates confusion like I have just been subjected to.
Off the soap box....I think.
Mark
So I get on www and ask the first question: Why do people say that you can't mix greases of different types? Checked several sites and really didn't get any plausible answer. Main content was that they wouldn't/may not, mix well with because of (possibly) different additives.
Okaye, lets explore this . Say I have a hub with pink grease and add grease of a different type that is chartreuse. The pink is in first and upon adding the other as I rotate the spindle, I come up with a mixture that looks like Hershey's chocolate just being stirred into a glass of milk!!!!!! I have the hub packed but the greases don't mix, but both greases find their way between the revolving and stationary steel surfaces and lubricate as they do.......did I miss something?
Situation #2: I check out a site that is for high speed offshore boats with 1000 hp engines, 150 mph and all that, triple axle trailers and all. Get the usual garden variety of what people think is the "only thing to use". Most of the respondents swear by Mystic JT-6 and how it is a lower temp grease that lubricates when the axles are cold whereas the high temp greases don't melt and don't lubricate.......scuse me?????
Common sense would tell one that if, for some reason, the grease would separate itself from the metal part to which it so admirably attached itself "when hot" if you will, and now the cold temp causes it to quit lubricating......geez, let's see, steel on steel, carrying a load rotating at reasonable to moderately high speed.....friction-heat-elevated temperature-where's the high temp grease to stay put and not run out at these higher temps???? Hello! Grease melts, flows over the points of friction, bearings cool down......what can I say.
I used Mystic JT-6 for years (purchased from Gebo's Farm and Ranch store locally) for everything on the farm. I bought it because it is a high temp, waterproof, high pressure grease......never had a bearing nor bushing fail, nor any other moving part greased with high temp (red) grease of any origin.
Since my grease guns are packed with high temp grease, I may just add it to my Bearing Buddies and dare them to fail.
Advice here and elsewhere is worth just what you pay for it. UGH! That's why, when I answer someone's post, I authenticate my reply as to whim, experience, or referenced fact and supply the reference.....eliminates confusion like I have just been subjected to.
Off the soap box....I think.
Mark
