Please help identify this grease.

[Sirgu]

Hey.
I hope this community has some people experienced on lubricants and greases of electronics industry.

-Check this picture and tell if you can determine this yellowish grease in right side.
It is widely used by quality brands in their products, where you meet plastic-against-plastic friction and/or bunch of plastic ratchets etc.



If anyone got interested there`s a gallery below with further explanations. Overall it might help leading to solution if someone has a hunch.
Thanks!

[diif]

Re: Please help identify this grease.

What about some of this ?
http://www.electrolube.com/products/...ricants_other/

No personal experience, but it's what i'd buy if i was in need of some plastic grease it's fully synthetic.

[ComputerGuy1]

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Not sure

[stj]

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the mint-green stuff is the best.
but i dont know what it's called or where you buy it.

as it's for small plastic gears, maybe try the radio-controlled car/model comunity.

[Sirgu]

Re: Please help identify this grease.

EDIT:
Misspelled name of white grease on main picture. Yea, it's Smar TF as repeatedly written in later context.

http://www.electrolube.com/products/...ricants_other/

Thanks for very useful link!
Looks like I am about to start further searches towards Electrolube SPG (the one you linked) and Electrolube CG60 (even more similar) as these seem to match the most.

the mint-green stuff is the best.

Haven`t heard of such thing before. Let me know if there`s smth more that would come to your mind about it. Seems complicated to google it.

[stj]

Re: Please help identify this grease.

the mint green stuff used to be found in a lot of VCR gears.

[keeney123]

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I used Dupont Teflon Dry Film lubricant on a 12" fan who's bearing have worn off the oil impregnated surface. I ran the fan every day for 3 months before I gave it away. Just have to use a generous portion to start with. I suppose any Teflon silicon mix grease will work on gears. I have even used heat sink compound when I had no other lubricant.

[stj]

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your missing the point, the stuff he's talking about is super slippy unlike silicone grease,
but it wont be thrown off the gears at high speed or get thinner if it gets warm.

[Sirgu]

Re: Please help identify this grease.

...used to be found in a lot of VCR gears.

Tnx for addition. I'll look into that.

Meanwhile made this little reminder for myself:

[U]Electrolube SPG[/U] (Special Plastics Grease)

- the most [COLOR="SeaGreen"]promising info[/COLOR] from Datasheet:
...
* Tacky characteristic; high tenacity to stay in contact zone.
* Stays where placed even on vertical surfaces; ideal for plastic lubrication
...
Oil bleed / Separation (IP121): 5%
...

- the most [COLOR="Red"]dubious info[/COLOR] from Datasheet:
...
Colour: Light Brown
Thickener: Clay
...


[U]Electrolube CG60[/U] (Contact Grease 60)

- the most [COLOR="SeaGreen"]promising info[/COLOR] from Datasheet:
...
* Excellent plastics compatibility; suitable with sensitive plastics (ABS/PC)...
* Enhances quality of switch; provides smooth operation and extends switch lifetime.
* Provides optimal mechanical resistance and reduces electrical background noise.
...
Colour: Cream
Oil bleed / Separation (IP121): 5%
Thickener: Lithium Complex Soap
...

- the most [COLOR="Red"]dubious info[/COLOR] from Datasheet:
(none so far)

[keeney123]

Re: Please help identify this grease.

your missing the point, the stuff he's talking about is super slippy unlike silicone grease,
but it wont be thrown off the gears at high speed or get thinner if it gets warm.

Teflon bonds to the gears when it drys it has a curing agent in it when exposed to air.

[keeney123]

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Or you can call or email the people at Dow Corning and tell them what you are looking for and I am sure they will help you find it. They are nice people who are very helpful and that is their business.

[stj]

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it's actually listed in old vcr service manuals.

[keeney123]

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So you like the color green. How about this https://cdn.badcaps-static.com/pdfs/...c96bbda31b.pdf

Or if you like blue green how about this
http://www.belray.com/bel-ray-alumin...orse-lubricant

Or you can use what they use to use moly grease.

[keeney123]

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Or this one http://www.aaaindustrialsupply.com/s...ubricants.aspx

[ben7]

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Maybe it is similar stuff, but it has been exposed to the air longer, and so it has gelled up a little, and changed color.

[stj]

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no, the light green colour was a way to identify if the right grease had been used.
i really wish i could remember what make it was - then i could just download a service manual to id the grease.
maybe it was aiwa or panasonic - i saw a lot of those.

it's the same stuff you often see on cd/dvd players lubing the rails for the laser assembly.

[ron350]

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STJ it would be nice to have some of that green VCR grease. I never saw that green grease cake up or separate.

[keeney123]

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How about this one it is light green. http://www.dowcorning.com/applicatio...0739&type=PROD

[ron350]

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Thanks Keeney123 Dow Molykote G-3407 is new to me and seams to be another unobtainable product from Dow.

So far the closest grease to the VCR grease (in the US) is Dow Molykote EM-30L.

That Special Plastic Grease sounds good but I can’t find any in the US.

[budm]

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http://machinedesign.com/mechanical-...gears-and-more

PAO based: EM-30L, PG-30L
http://www.amazon.com/Corning-Molyko.../dp/B00B51C76I

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DOW-MOLYKOTE...item3f0be845ad