Re: Lubricant for Ball & Trunnion uni

Posted by Larry51 On 2013/10/15 6:03:44

Thanks O-D, Tim. Sounds like you're saying that grease technology has come a very long way since 1951! I was concerned that Packard had said use only heavy fiber lubricant and not your ordinary grease.

Just to satisfy my curiosity - there are two schools of thought: one is that actual fibers such as cotton were added to lubricants back then (to help 'draw' the lubricant around working surfaces); and the other was that the 'fiber' aspect was simply the characteristic of the lubricant when stretched between surfaces (- it formed 'strings'). I wonder which was correct?