Skip (cousin of Frank but distant), I've had luck with dribbling a little WD40 into the gap (after cleaning exterior around axle/bearing interface with Q-tip). The WD40 acts as a solvent to make the dried out grease greasy again (rejuvenates). Tri-Flow® works too.
Chuck "very distant cousin of everyone" Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
skip sinatra wrote:
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> these are sealed bearing, ti axle....
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> >From: Byron Morton
>
> >To: skip sinatra
>
> >Subject: Re: [CR]Big Sticky...OMAS HUB Question
>
> >Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:37:25 -0800 (PST)
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> >
>
> >Skip,
>
> >i had a nos zeus hubset get into the same sticky
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> >situation. it's no big deal - dissasemble & degrease.
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> >repack with fresh grease and hit the road. the cones
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> >and balls should be just fine - i reused the ones in
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> >the zeus. of course check for pitting or rust just
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> >incase moisture made it's way inside the hub.
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> >
>
> >cat urine may help unstick the bearings, but it smells
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> >terrible - try some of that orange-based degreaser -
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> >it smells better.
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> >cheerio,
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> >byron
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> >
>
> >
>
> >--- skip sinatra
> wrote:
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> > > I've got a pair of NOS OMAS Big Sliding/Big Smoothy
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> > > hubs....problem is , in sitting for nearly 30 years,
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> > > they have become sticky, gummy....any good solutions
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> > > that don't involve machine shops and bearing
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> > > replacement?
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > > Thanks eternally,
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > > Skip Sinatra, a distant cousin
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> > >
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> > > Frog Level VA
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > > Disclaimer PS: if applying cat urine to to exposed
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> > > bearing is the solution....let me know. The bike is
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> > > neither a masi, a hairy masi or a colnago. I am not
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> > > doing this for art or profit. I don't live in
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> > > California, have never seen Carlsbad and am not
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> > > installing these on a Hyster, Mitsubishi or any
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> > > other name brand forklift
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> > >
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> > >
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