I just received a cartridge of yamaha marine grease (ACC-GREAS-14-CT) and it's ruby red in color. Is this same as the blue I've been using?
Does it say Marine Grease on the packaging? Any mention of salt protection? Rudy
I am not familiar with a red color Yamaha grease — but that doesn't mean anything...
Lots of new things to learn for this child...
The big thing, regardless of color — it must be labeled Marine Grease — that means it is not only a decent grease, but salt water repellent also.
I get mine from a local boat dealer, over the counter — around $8 - $9 for 14 oz..
Best,
Fred
yup, just like the pic and red inside, wonder if Lucas is their new oem manufacturer.
It's going to be difficult in the future when you open someones reel with red grease in it to guess what it might be. Almost all main grease producers have a type of red grease. At least the Yamaha blue was a unique shade of blue. I love my Penn Blue!
You could make your own color Rudy
https://novaspecialties.com/dyeproducts/novalube-dyes/
All grease have color added to them, well except the natural grease.
Sal, how do you make red grease blue? ;D When I worked in heavy equipment we used to dye our hydralic oil with a red dye so everybody knew which oil was in the smaller containers that were stored for use in the field.
Quote from: RowdyW on June 21, 2019, 09:45:38 PM
Sal, how do you make red grease blue? ;D When I worked in heavy equipment we used to dye our hydralic oil with a red dye so everybody knew which oil was in the smaller containers that were stored for use in the field.
:)...the point I was tying to make is no to judge a book by its cover, dye is just a dye.
Sal
Regardless of its color is there a standard SAE class for grease? I know the Muscle grease I have is a type II.
I believe type ll, & NO. 2 is the spec for chassis grease.
Grease is so mysterious.
Does it have calcium soap or lithium soap?
See what I mean? I don't know what calcium and lithium soap are either but read that somewhere.
-steve
Soap has a high percentage of rendered fat in it. ;D
They may have changed the dye colour not manufacturer (?). Generally theses dyes are just oil-soluble azo dyes.
Yamalube is a lithium complex soap based grease with a hydrocarbon based lubricant (mineral oil). It contains the usual corrosion inhibitors, tackifiers and anti-wear additives.
Pretty generic stuff really, but it works
Quote from: RowdyW on June 21, 2019, 11:46:45 PM
Soap has a high percentage of rendered fat in it. ;D
When they come out with a reel grease that smells like bacon I'll be all over it.
-steve
Quote from: foakes on June 21, 2019, 07:08:37 PM
I am not familiar with a red color Yamaha grease — but that doesn't mean anything...
Lots of new things to learn for this child...
The big thing, regardless of color — it must be labeled Marine Grease — that means it is not only a decent grease, but salt water repellent also.
I get mine from a local boat dealer, over the counter — around $8 - $9 for 14 oz..
Best,
Fred
Fred you get your grease from here?
According to Yamaha, there's only one yamalube marine grease and it's still blue. They've asked me to sent it to them for an exchange and told me to not use it.
Let us know what Yamaha has to say.
Has anyone tried the Corrosion X marine Grease ? I sent for a tube, but haven't received it yet.
Quote from: pauly1010 on June 26, 2019, 08:49:35 PM
According to Yamaha, there's only one yamalube marine grease and it's still blue. They've asked me to sent it to them for an exchange and told me to not use it.
Yamaha has changed their color from dark blue to light blue once before :-\
I liked the darker blue much better, but the light blue is still good
Sal
Quote from: Crow on June 26, 2019, 09:59:31 PM
Has anyone tried the Corrosion X marine Grease ? I sent for a tube, but haven't received it yet.
I've tried it and it seems to be slightly thicker than the Penn Blue that I like. It's marine grease so it will work.
I went through this a bit with my Yamaha F150s. Not sure about the chemical makeup, and I can't find the MSDS for either product...but these are two different products.
Yamalube Marine Grease is the blue grease that's been discussed numerous times on this forum. Yamaha outboard service manuals refer to this as "type a"
Yamalube Multipurpose Grease is red. The same service manuals refer to this as "type b"
https://shopyamaha.com/product/details/multi-purpose-grease?b=Search&d=31|31&ls=yamaha-motor-company&dealernumber=
I ordered the Yamaha marine grease in the large tube. Last time I did this I got the blue grease. This time I got the red grease. Tube information is exactly the same as with the blue grease and tube is same size. Has anyone run into this lately?
Read the comments above. Yamaha Marine is BLUE & Yamaha Multi Purpose is RED. Send it back & tell them you want the BLUE MARINE Grease.