Open Gear Lube

For awhile I just used oil from the oil can like South Bend recommended, but it would kick-off the gears pretty quickly and the gears would start hummin'. Next I tried 90WT gear oil, which worked pretty well, was easily to apply straight from the applicator on the bottle and stuck-on for awhile.

Right now I'm using CRC Extreme Duty Open Gear & Chain Lube which works awesome and seems to last forever. The only problem with CRC is that they don't give you an application straw and since this lube is incredible messy the straw is a nice feature.

The Lubriplate mentioned above is what we used at work by the box-load. It's great stuff and you also get an application straw.
 
Napa has an open gear lube that I have come to like. It's about $7.00. Dave
 
The stuff I had came in a spray can, went on fairly wet and took about 2 minutes to set. Once it set, it was like black tar. I know if you got some on your hands it was @#$%^ to get off.
 
derf said:
The stuff I had came in a spray can, went on fairly wet and took about 2 minutes to set. Once it set, it was like black tar. I know if you got some on your hands it was @#$%^ to get off.
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Yup, the most evil goo I can remember. We used it for cables on winches.
 
I wonder if regular old, relatively cheap, bar and chain oil would work? It's crazy sticky, designed to cling to the bar and chain of chainsaws...
 
As I mentioned above, just use motorcycle chain lube, works great and its cheap.
 
Most high quality open gear and chain lubes contain an EP additive, which improves the lubricants performance under extreme pressure situations. Whatever you end up using, it would be wise to check the ingredients for the EP additive.


Scott
 
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