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Re: Trunnion re-assembly grease

To: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
Subject: Re: Trunnion re-assembly grease
From: "Dr T. Dafforn" <td214@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:36:00 +0100 (BST)
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Atwell Haines wrote:

> At 09:39 AM 8/17/98 +0000, James wrote:
> >Went through the same question, coulden't find any zink based greese.  I
> >think it's designed to corrode instead of your bolt, so what I descided
> >was to re-grease it every year with lithium greese. 
> 
> Same as James, I couldn't find a Zinc grease, apparently it's not a common
> lubricant anymore.   So I used my favorite synthetic grease (Tribolube brand).
> 
> I'll let you know how it holds up, in twenty or thirty years.  :)

What about using copper grease!
That should stop any of that nasty corrosion!

Tim


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