Then there was John Forester's (of Effective Cycling fame) recipe for a napalm-like mixture of gasoline (white gas?) and gear oil which was thin enough to squirt into an oil port and was supposed to evaporate and leave a deposit of gear oil goodness behind. I suppose a few quick wipes with an oily rag should follow the injection. I was never brave enough to try it on my hubs, or to drill out my bottom bracket and install an oiler cap, but did buy the ingredients. It's one of those ideas that sounded good, but might be more complicated in practice. Was this ever popular somewhere; England? Trackies? Bill Gibson Tempe, Arizona, USA
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Phil Brown <philcycles@sbcglobal.net>wrote:
>
> 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.