[AT] Grease

[charlie hill]

Never thought about slick 50 in a gear box Farmer.  I bet STP or Motor Honey 
would work too!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson46176 at hotmail.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 9:07 PM
Subject: [AT] Grease


>     A lot of combine gear boxes run on straight chassis grease. I seem to 
> recall the old New Idea 2 row mounted picker (or maybe it was combine) 
> having one mounting bolt that you removed and stuck a grease gun in the 
> hole and pumped it full of grease and replaced the bolt. I never had a 
> failure on any gearbox on a picker or combine in all of the years I ran 
> them. Now the old open bevel gears on ear corn pickers were another 
> story... Very soft stuff. We used to use an old paint brush mounted to a 
> 4' handle to brush grease on them while the tractor ran the picker at an 
> idle. An old garden sprayer was used with used motor oil through a drilled 
> out nozzle to lube chains.
>    I don't use Slick 50 in engines but I have used the grease in gear 
> boxes.
>
> farmer
>
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