What's your grease?
 

Ever since the stuff I used to use escalated to a price and scarcity approaching that of caviar or high test drugs ...I've been using Phil grease. I noted the other day that, though I generally like it, it does seem to be of a somewhat light viscosity compared with the old Campy grease. I assembled a bottom bracket, wondering, is that stuff gonna stay in there...and last? What's your favorite grease?

I use Finish Line Teflon grease.

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Marine bearing grease. Not really any kind of favorite per se. It's just grease after all and I know it works.

I think I was using what brockd15 is using. I got it at an auto parts store. Then next time I needed grease, I saw the price for Park grease, at the bike shop, went for about the same, or maybe less.

You can use any grease. Really. Just use anything.

Bacon grease Tom ? :)

Been using this for 25+ years and there is none better, and it's $4.99 for a tub.
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Grease is grease. I have a tub of generic white automotive bearing grease that I have had for at least ten years (lost track) and its still about half full.

La creme de la creme

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Park

+1. Whatever brand is cheapest at Walmart or the local auto parts store.

+1
Dam right. $12 at the local auto parts store.

I've been messing around with mixing a little chainsaw bar oil with white lithium grease. Don't know how it'll hold up, but it makes for some smooth spinning hubs.

Right now im using Red and Tacky #2, has a picture of a tractor on the tube shaped packaging, yeah a tractor.

For my bikes or flippers?

I have a hard time believing all greases are created equal.

Not so much about being equal more about making a difference. At the low speeds and low loads (compared to, say, the wheel bearings on a 6K lb. trailer tooling down the highway at 65 MPH), I doubt there will be a discernable difference except when it comes to viscosity in the extremes of heat or cold.

I use marine bearing grease. At $4 a tub it works fine and should last many years.

you grease your flippers? Eeeeyewww. I'm with you, I think some must be better than others. But hey, that's what opinions are all about. I'm beginning to wonder if this Phil grease can be improved upon. I like it on my fly reels but I may have to score some of that Mobil 1 synthetic. If Auchencrow has two tubs of it ...it's got to be the kind.

i have a nos of phil wood it be the bomb

I've a partial tube of Phil's and a partial tube of Bullshot. They're just keepsakes, though.

This is what I keep in the grease gun: (looks like Bullshot, but smells funky, works like a charm, $3.50 a lb.)
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+1, but the marine version.

Thanks fellow grease monkeys. "NOS" and "keepsake" Phil Wood grease? Did they stop making it? I have a whole tub of it. Maybe some day it'll be like Campy caviar! :)

I use this stuff...Looks/feels a lot like Phil's if you ask me:http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=182342

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/acc...ntifier=945653

I use Ford spec grease. Comes in a tub, is graphite black, and is waterproof. It works better than the red stuff, and is a good protectant.

I still have a tub of Campy grease for the really good stuff, but yes, marine goop for the rest, Phil or Park for the tweeners.

Phil Wood has been my main squeeze for awhile now.

old campy grease kinda dries out...