Re: [CR]Re: Loose Balls

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From: "Phil Brown" <philcycles@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Loose Balls
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:55:41 -0800
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On Nov 24, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Scott L. Minneman wrote:
>
> Speaking of grease, did I gather that somebody on the list had actually
> packed the barrels of their Campy hubs so full of grease that they
> could use
> the oil port to force contaminated grease out the side seals? There's
> no
> way they should be packed like that, right? The drag of spinning a
> hub body
> around that blob of stationary grease and fixed spindle (yes, I know
> enough
> about fluid dynamics to realize it'd be more complex than that, but
> would
> still have massive drag) would be really nasty.
>
> I hope, at least, that whomever even considers that style of
> lubrication is
> using *really* light consistency grease (NLGI 0). If not, unpack
> those hubs
> and your pedaling will get a lot easier.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott Minneman
> San Francisco, CA, USA
>

The oil port on a Campy hub is just that-an oil port. In days of yore racers used oil, not grease and it could be renewed every day though the port. The only hub I know of that used a port to force grease through the hub is the slightly OT WildernessTrail/Suntour Grease Guard hub. Remember that grease is simply oil held in a soap so that is doesn't run out of the bearing. Phil Brown Has a grease Guard BB in Berkeley, Calif.