Drag Grease

[Bulldawg]

 

    I recently upgraded my Saltiga 20 and 30T drags to Smoothies.

    I used shimano drag grease. Is the cals grease better and why.

   

[alantani]

i hope you mean carbontex, not the original smoothies. 

cal's grease melts at 500 degrees and costs $25 per pound.  shimano grease melts at 300 degrees and costs $50 per pound.  as far as i know, those are the only differences.  alan

[Bulldawg]

Thanks Alan they were carbontex washers.


Where can I obtain Cal's grease, don't really need A pound though.


   Thanks

[alantani]

call dawn.  she's the lady that own's http://smoothdrag.com/price.html

[George6308]

Mystic has Cal's.

[RamseyReelRepair]

call dawn.  she's the lady that own's http://smoothdrag.com/price.html

Dawn will fix you up good. She has great service! Just got like 4 sets of drags from her.

West

[Tiddlerbasher]

I've tried many greases over the years. I still like Cals - but it's very pricey in the UK. I wanted to settle on a single grease to be used on bearings and drags and everything - removing the fear of contamination from one grease to another. Over the last year or so I've been using just this one:

https://www.smithandallan.com/products/industrial-grease/4640-smith-and-allan-teflube-plus-2-grease/

It's the right consistency, stays put but cleans up ok. Drags are nice and smooth. I used to use Mercury Quicksilver 2-4-C with teflon on everything - but the price shot up - also it tended to split quite quickly - dripping oil from the grease gun. This Teflube plus does the same job but is more affordable and available locally and doesn't split so quickly.

For drags a grease containing Teflon (PTFE) is preferable. For general use a marine grade grease is required. At the end of the day something is better than nothing.
I prefer to keep things simple and predictable - 1 grease (Teflube Plus) and 1 oil (TSI321) but that's at the moment - who knows what's in the future

[Glos]

. I wanted to settle on a single grease to be used on bearings and drags and everything - removing the fear of contamination from one grease to another.



and what are the dangers of contaminating one with another ( drag grease with gearing grease )?

[Tiddlerbasher]

Some oils and greases don't 'play nicely together' it doesn't seem to be a predictable thing - chemists feel free to chime in.
For me I like to keep it simple.

[Glos]

yeah, thats my concern now that Ive put lithium based grease filing up the casing of my surf 8k-s
and all be it the drag washers are greased with cals drag grease from okuma factory, non carbon drag

[alantani]

I honestly don't worry about it too much.  If a little gets mixed up,  it's generally no big deal.

[Glos]

o, ok then
( I`ve recomended that yamaha marine grease to people here, now just the fact that it is available only online gets in our way for having it in bigger numbers )
and some other news for them, like better bearings and such, all from reading here

[alantani]

I still use cal's grease just for drag washers and yamaha marine grease for everything else.

[foakes]

Same as Alan — I just use Yamalube Marine & Cal's.

For me, on repeat jobs after a couple of years — I appreciate the way Yamaha Marine and Cal's stay in place doing their job — then wash out clean and easy with solvents.

Go through maybe 4 or 5 pounds of Cal's in a year, and about 8 or 9 (14 oz.) tubes of Yamaha Marine that I apply with a grease gun — or a flux brush with the bristles cut short.

Any grease used is likely going to be finer than nothing — the exceptions being greases that sets up hard, or greases that stick to everything — and will not wash out except with an hour of scrubbing and $5 worth of chemicals.

Just keeping it simple, effective, and with good protective performance...

Best,

Fred

[RamseyReelRepair]

How have yall found that Penn grease cleans out? Pretty hard? Or do solvents work pretty good on it? And just curious Fred, what is black magic?

West