What grease (also includes anti-seize, vaseline, loctite, spoke prep, honey, etc etc) are you guys using on various parts of your bicycles? I know what I use, i’m just not sure if i have a good reason.
What are you guys using for:
Headset
Bottom Bracket
Seatpost clamp
Stem - steerer
Stem - bars
Seatpost
Hubs
QR skewers
Mostly phil for everything. I use some white lithium for some plastic parts and other threaded pieces. Then its the above statement of whatever is in front of me, or near my tool bag at the time.
Phil ain’t any better than Park, it’s all the same marine wheel bearing grease — just buy tubs for $2 at the auto parts store
Sometimes I use white lithium to see the filth intrusion even though it’s not quite as long lasting. Really it doesn’t matter much, these days you’ll have a hard time finding any grease too shitty to use on a bike in consumer quantities. Maybe some of em turn to resin in 15 years instead of 30, who gives a fuck.
Teflon plumbers tape is great on BB threads, anti-seize on spoke threads and nipple beds.
I’m with Fred for the most part. All the grease that we use is way above spec for bicycles. I still bought a tube of Phil’s to see what it was like. This was before I found the MSDS and realized it was just marine wheel bearing grease. Have a tube of Park as well. It’s fine. I use zinc anti-seize for threads when I’m not feeling lazy, especially pedal threads. Otherwise, I just grease 'em. Tri-flow if I need oil.
MSDS only has hazardous chemicals that are required to be reported. The Phil MSDS doesnt even include CAS numbers, just a general description. I can guarantee you there’s more in it. Compare it to the EU MSDS for examples (couldn’t find one for Phil, but it exists if they sell it there.) They’re required to report a lot more there, but still not everything. FWIW ATMPO