thanks... I'm leaning towards oil as well...I've open up several rotors over
the years... bearing all rusted with grease packed inbetween. The grease
just doesn't protect them at all as best I can tell. Maybe 3&1 is too light
of an oil but 10W50 might work fine...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy Coker" <n6win73@gmail.com>
To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tailtwister Rotor Rehab Question
>I am sort of an oil guy... I guessed the blue grease was a lithium based
> marine grease. Looked and felt a lot like what I used for my marine
> trailer's bearings. I could of course be wrong... not exactly like I sent
> it
> off to be tested.
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Roger (K8RI)
> <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> WA3GIN wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > Rebuilding the old Tailtwister. Ballbearing look good but the grease
>> > is
>> hard and useless, not protecting the bearing much. I used 3&1 oil to
>> clean
>> the bearings and races but wonder if I should just leave the 3&1 or
>> slather
>> the bearing with white lithium grease.
>> >
>> That's what I'd use. Others say different, but I'll bet you find the
>> blue grease Norn's uses is similar.
>> Also, there's something wrong if a rotator is picking up particles out
>> of the air.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Roger
>> > Recommendations welcome. Please respond direct.
>> >
>> > 73,
>> > dave
>> > wa3gin
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