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Grease & Oil
Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 11:54 pm
by La Mesan
What brands of oil or grease do you prefer to lubricate your reels with?
(drag washers. spool bearings. worm gear. star drag. pinion gear etc.) Thanks
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 5:08 am
by Gotfish?
Penn reel grease
3 in 1 oil
Both inexpensive and seem to work very well.
Skeptical that paying a lot more gets any better product. A reel is not like a car engine, there are no high temperatures to break down the lube and the temperature range the lube needs to operate over is narrow.
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 5:42 am
by William Ritchie
Cals or Shimano drag grease . Blue marine grade grease on gears and for coating parts . Bearings get 0-20 oil which the blue bottle 3 in one is . . Clean and lube often is the key , particularly after a salt water dunk . Note , Cals is good stuff and I know people that use it for all grease needs . Tight lines
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 4:47 pm
by Gotfish?
William Ritchie wrote: Sun May 07, 2023 5:42 am
Cals or Shimano drag grease . Blue marine grade grease on gears and for coating parts . Bearings get 0-20 oil which the blue bottle 3 in one is . . Clean and lube often is the key , particularly after a salt water dunk . Note , Cals is good stuff and I know people that use it for all grease needs . Tight lines
I'll second that frequency of lubrication is way more important that what brand of lube is used.
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 5:11 pm
by inthedeep2
i use cals for washers and gears. 1 drop of 3n1 oil to bearings. i mainly fish saltwater and tear my reels down every three months. little to no corrosion.
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 5:48 pm
by Slater
What WR said...
Cals drag grease turns my Avets into a different animal, its a must for Avet drags....
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 12:37 am
by Just_Bass
I use bantam oil or Daiwa that come with the reels purchase. For all gears and drag stack get Shimano drag grease.
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Thu May 18, 2023 1:38 am
by Biggiez
Many
First I use to 321 to lube/flush my bearings
Then Penn reel grease (the blue stuff) as general purpose lube
On my drags it’s only cals drag grease the yellow stuff
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2023 6:37 am
by La Mesan
oil or grease on your worm gear? saltwater or freshwater?
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2023 2:09 pm
by camobass
Cals grease 100%. Cals grease on the worm gear salt and fresh. Any quality synthetic low viscosity bearing oil.
Oil quality definitely makes a difference on the spool bearings. You can tell if you use too thick of viscosity once you cast.
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2023 10:51 am
by Jenx
La Mesan wrote: Sun Aug 06, 2023 6:37 am
oil or grease on your worm gear? saltwater or freshwater?
I don't like to use grease on my worm gears. I don't want sand sticking to it, but I guess if you don't surf fish that's not an issue.
I use CorrosionX.
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2023 2:59 pm
by camobass
Sand has a will…if there’s a will, there’s a way. Just ask the undercarriage
Re: Grease & Oil
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2023 7:06 pm
by OOlicon
If it's freshwater only, or light saltwater I use lighter weight grease, while using either quantum red or t321for the spool bearings, dry carbon drags.
For kayak or heavy salt I use what ritchie recommends. Alan Tani has a nice forum where you can learn to service your gear.