[AT] Cub - Update

[Jim Becker]

Looks like I may have sent that link only to Steve.  Here it is for anyone else that is interested.
https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/30884/replace-oil-grease

The article leads me to wonder if corn head or cotton picker spindle grease should be used in a Cub throwout bearing.

By the way, be sure to read the last two sentences!

Jim Becker

From: Stephen Offiler 
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2020 3:48 AM
To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group 
Subject: Re: [AT] Cub - Update

I might need to re-read the machinery lubrication article Jim posted.  Is it saying an NLGI 2 is actually a *better* choice than thinner NLGI 0/00 ("corn head grease").  I took the article to be simply affirmation that the old grease trick in place of gear oil is can be a good solution in some circumstances, like steering gearboxes. 

SO

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:58 PM John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:

  I'm with you on this one Jim. I would think plain old grease would be 
  just fine in a steering box on a 70 year old tractor that will run 10 
  hours a year in 30 minute intervals. The only person to cuss you will be 
  the mechanic that ever opens it up to fix it!!!! At the end of the day, 
  anything that will stay in the box is better than nothing!!!

  John Hall



  On 7/7/2020 11:31 AM, Jim Becker wrote:
  > So all you have to do is spin the steering wheel at a couple thousand 
  > RPM for a few minutes and you'll be ready to go? :)
  >
  > Jim Becker
  >
  > -----Original Message----- From: Cecil Bearden
  > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 9:48 AM
  > To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
  > Subject: Re: [AT] Cub - Update
  >
  > It is used on Hesston Rotary mower conditioners with some pretty high
  > dollar bearings in them, so I would think that it lubricates when hot.
  > I have put it in a RT913 Roadranger that leaked at the PTO and it
  > stopped leaking.  It has to run a few minutes when cold to shift easily,
  > but otherwise I have had no problems...
  > Cecil
  >
  > On 7/6/2020 10:52 PM, Steve W. wrote:
  >> Stephen Offiler wrote:
  >>> Hi Cecil:  I've been warned that the grease trick is a little 
  >>> sketchy; it gets pushed aside over time and ends up doing not much 
  >>> good.  And it has next to zero chance of working itself down to the 
  >>> pivot.  Those are the downsides of the grease trick.  I will still 
  >>> give it serious consideration. Curious, what is special about this 
  >>> corn picker grease?
  >>>
  >>> SO
  >>
  >> 00 or Corn head "grease" is somewhat of a misnomer. It goes in like a 
  >> grease but as soon as things move in it the viscosity becomes more 
  >> like a very thick oil. It's what a lot of snowblower gearboxes have 
  >> in them.
  >>
  >> Video on the stuff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zNhli-J0Gk
  >>
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