Yamaha Grease

Started by GuyA, January 05, 2011, 10:00:28 PM

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Gfish

To bad Cal's is so expensive. Accurate uses it everywhere in their reels. This's what I'd do if it weren't about $8+/oz.
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nelz

Quote from: Gfish on July 29, 2018, 04:10:42 PMTo bad Cal's is so expensive. Accurate uses it everywhere in their reels. This's what I'd do if it weren't about $8+/oz.

Really? Good to know 'cause I'm doing that on a couple of my best reels, but wasn't sure it was a good idea.


davidshelton

I live down in Nicaragua, Central America, and work on my own reels but there aren't too many grease options but there is a Yamaha outboard dealer! However, I found some generic "made in USA" blue "hi temp" marine/bearing grease but it does seem super thick and on gears makes my Daiwa spinners noticeably tighter than original. It also goes green with time from the ice blue colour. I see people on here mentioning mixing the grease with something else to make it lighter. What could I use to do that, that will be available here? (ie something automotive).
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alantani

david, you should be good as is. 
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davidshelton

Thank you for the replies. There aren't exactly many tackleshops/reel repair around nor really many fishermen! I have to ship literally almost everything down pretty much. I use Cal's Universal for my drags. Can't seem to find the Daiwa 555 on ebay. Also that Blue Penn grease seems to wash/run really easily and doesn't seem to hold up very long in a drag in this heat here.

orsteelheader

Keeping this thread slowly moving along...

Is there a specific reason why Yamaha Marine Grease couldn't be used for a Carbontex-based drag stack? I'm onboard with protecting the metal surfaces and gears with it but I've been using Cal's on the drag stack. Reading through lots and lots of posts, I haven't seen this addressed before. For the price and convenience, using just one product would simplify maintenance a little.

Thanks,
Jay
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RowdyW

For one thing Cal's contains teflon. It's what Cal developed for carbon fiber drags.        Rudy

Tiddlerbasher

Quote from: orsteelheader on February 14, 2019, 03:34:19 AM
Keeping this thread slowly moving along...

Is there a specific reason why Yamaha Marine Grease couldn't be used for a Carbontex-based drag stack? I'm onboard with protecting the metal surfaces and gears with it but I've been using Cal's on the drag stack. Reading through lots and lots of posts, I haven't seen this addressed before. For the price and convenience, using just one product would simplify maintenance a little.

Thanks,
Jay

'Using just one product would simplify maintenance'
Yup I totally agrree - that's exactly why I only use one teflon based marine grease for everything. The one I use is a British made product - no shipping problems :)
https://www.smithandallan.com/products/industrial-grease/4640-smith-and-allan-teflube-plus-2-grease/

RowdyW

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Dupont also makes a Teflon based Marine grease. It's almost identical in color to Cal's. I bought a one pound can for $7.00 & it's available here in the USA.           

Darin Crofton

Quote from: RowdyW on February 14, 2019, 11:46:00 AM
Dupont also makes a Teflon based Marine grease. It's almost identical in color to Cal's. I bought a one pound can for $7.00 & it's available here in the USA.           
Rudy,
What part of the reel are you using the Dupont grease? Good results so far? Thanks!
Darin
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RowdyW

Darin, I just use it for the drags the same way I use Cal's. I find no difference in preformance compared to Cal's. I use Penn Blue or Yamaha Marine on the rest of the reel. I just bought a 1 lb can of Super lube to try out on my reels but not for the drags. It seems to be a little thicker then the Penn or Yamaha. For the drags I'll stick with Cal's or Dupont Marine w/ teflon.              Rudy

Reel 224

Rudy: Were is it available, could let us know?

Joe
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