Talking of relabelled bike greases, I have a tube of Finish Line Teflon Grease where the packaging was a stick on label not printed on the tube. I removed the label which was pretty difficult, it had sticky black adhesive that was presumably designed to make it hard to remove or see through.
The tube itself has a printed label for White Lightening Pool & Spa lube formulated with dupont krytox. The grease smells different and is more translucent than normal finish line stuff so it doesn't appear that they where simply using some already printed tubes they got cheap.
Originally Posted by Rowan
Anyway, I aim to get over all this in future by using only sealed bearings... but, I just realised... most sealed bearings used on bicycles are the generic types used in car alternators, ceiling fans and various industrial electric motors and other applications... and they *don't* use bicycle-specific grease.
I'm not sure how true that is any more. I think many manufactures are specifying a more appropriate lubrication when they order bearings. At least I've seen several new components where the cartridge bearings had a larger quantity of thicker lube instead of the sparing application of thin almost oil like grease that was common.