Timeline for Automotive brake grease
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:32 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 5, 2015 at 11:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackBicycles/status/606787155407601664 | ||
| Jun 3, 2015 at 0:07 | answer | added | super | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 2, 2015 at 15:09 | comment | added | Batman | The standard stuff for people who are too cheap to buy bicycle branded stuff is Automotive mutipurpose grease or Marine wheelbearing grease for bearings, White grease for things like seatposts and 3 in 1 for the chain and pivots and stuff. (cue people saying this is inappropriate for a bike) | |
| Jun 2, 2015 at 14:16 | answer | added | ObeyTheDiode | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 2, 2015 at 14:09 | comment | added | ObeyTheDiode | As a kid me and my cousin used Vaseline (petroleum jelly) as grease in our headsets and hubs (that we just discovered how to take apart). It was probably not ideal, but it served the purpose :) | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 11:24 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | A few ounces of bike grease will last you several years, on a single bike. A tub of automotive grease (if you open it at all) will collect crud and become unusable in 2-3 years. And "disk brake" grease is not a good choice, since giving it temperature resistance messes up its other characteristics. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 5:19 | comment | added | andy256 | Welcome to Bicycles @Huckle! What a pleasure to see a well-researched question :-) | |
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| Jun 1, 2015 at 5:04 | history | asked | Huckle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |