Re-greasing my gears

[Supershot]

This might be a silly question but how do I go about re-greasing my gears.I will use Tamiya ceramic grease!Can you give me any special tips apart from using a tissue and wiping the former grease off!

[Stefan(2)]

get the old grease of with some hot H20 with dishwash soap.

Not to hot ofcourse

( asuming u want to de-grease plastic gears.

I use personaly ball bearing grease for automotive use,

that stuff is made to withstand about all u can trow at it

and, from personal experince, it's reduces gear-noise.

And, its a lot cheaper than something with the tamiya sticker on it

Bye, Stefan

[Shodog]

I use Mineral spirits (aka paint hinner) to remove the grease and grime from the gears and gear box housings. For grease I use Bicycle bearing grease. I feel that automotive wheel bearing grease is too thick and would cause more friction than a lighter bicycle grease.

Jim

[ideal2k]

Don't ever use thinner or similar on plastic, it may harm it.

I'd just use paper tissue and wipe the gears clean.

[Shodog]

quote:Originally posted by ideal2k

Don't ever use thinner or similar on plastic, it may harm it.

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It depends on what thinner your talking about. I have used Paint Thinner many times. I have even left parts in to soak for a few days with no dfamage to the plastic. Now Laquer thinner on the other hand will start to dissolve the plastic in a heartbeat.

Of course with anything, your mileage may vary. You should always test any method on a piece that you wouldn't mind losing. I found this out the hard way by trying to strip lexan with easy off oven cleaner. I ended up with a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle

Jim

Jim

[WillyChang]

quote:Originally posted by Supershot

This might be a silly question but how do I go about re-greasing my gears.I will use Tamiya ceramic grease!Can you give me any special tips apart from using a tissue and wiping the former grease off!

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Try sprayon+hoseoff automotive degreaser... works great for A$2/can.

I prefer Tamiya Molybdenum grease over Ceramic; Ceramic is nice and white/neat but seems to fling off easier. Tamiya AW grease is a bit sticky for gears, and Tamiya Titanium grease sounds very high-tech but Moly still seems to hang on better.

Expensive?? Not quite... Moly in the big tube is pretty cheap compared to the AW and Ti newcomers in the 3g tubes. My last tube of Moly lasted nearly 10 yrs... "less is more". [8D]

[DJTheo]

I preffer ceramic grease, the also exists a bigger tube from Robbe? which aint expensive, njoy us 2 old guys from Muppet show having the disagreement again http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/topic.asp?...erms=Molybdenum, LOL [][]

[Supershot]

Just cleaned the gears and applied some ceramic grease!Wow,what a difference-the car is so "silent",compared to before!!A definate improvement!Thanks for the advice guys!