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Grex Cars Item 52: Looking for source of grease-like "stuff".
Entered by gregc on Wed Apr 5 14:23:11 UTC 1995:

I've spent a fair amount of time under/inside/around my various cars
doing work on them. I've been looking for an answer to a fairly trivial
question but have never found it. This came up again because I was
recently rebuilding the window and lock mechanisms inside the door of my
Subaru. I have found that the factory puts a "substance" that I will call
"grease" fro now on many of the cars slow moving, non-high-speed surfaces.
I found this grease on the sliders inside the window mechanism, and I've
also seen it on the gears of the windshield wiper mechanism, seat rails,
locks, etc. It is NOT while grease or Lubriplate. White grease is opaque
and relatively soft, Lubriplate is even softer. The substance in question
is translucent, yellowish, fairly stiff, and *sticky*. When I've had to
clean it off of something I'm working on, I've always wished I had more to
put back on later becuase it is ideal for these things. White grease is
a poor substitute because it falls off to easily, this other stuff stays
put because of it's stiffness and stickyness.

I've asked around over the years at several garages and part places. Either
they don't know what I'm talking about, or they've seen it too, and don't
know what it is. Anybody know? My best guess at this point is that it may
not be grease at all but a very soft blend of beeswax.

2 responses total.

#1 of 2 by mdw on Mon Apr 17 03:27:32 1995:

There is a kind of door hinge grease which you want to look for.
The kind I bought comes in a spray can; you spray it on, and
it then hardens.  I'm not real impressed with the quality of
the stuff I bought; it doesn't seem to last too long; but
I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, I think I bought it
at Meijers.  I have heard that the *best* kind of door
hinge grease comes from Mercedes Benz.

#2 of 2 by gregc on Wed Apr 26 06:35:55 1995:

Nope, that's not the stuff I'm looking for. The stuff I'm looking for
is ussually seen apllied in thick globs, not the thin layer that a spray
can would produce. This substance is also not for peretrating into
tight places, but is meant to be spread on big open areas, like a seat rail.

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