Super Lube: Oil or Grease?

I did a search for "lube" on DX and was sorry.

Any recommendations for stuff I can get in Germany? kreisler, wanna jump in? :P

@Chicago: 5.7% of worlds population use flouridated water. You have any data on dentition in several countries?

I never used tooth paste with flour and my dentist always tells me how great my teeth are. Their might be a positive aspect (bacteria produces less acid) but experts still argue about whether thats really important or not.

IMO thats a greatly exaggerated topic. Flour isnt essential to the human body, so maybe we need some or it just gets "passed through".

i am not satisfied with any lube i've tried so far. superlube is meh and i have the feeling that for our purposes you could equally use nivea or any other hemorrhoidal creme

:)

gvmeliberty, thank you for those leads, I've never heard of most of them. Would love any feedback anyone gets.

I actually tried Militec-1 and still have a bit left. I did not have enough "A/B" experience to really give a critical rundown, so here's my limited experience. My biggest issue with the stuff is it turns brown when it gets old, old=maybe, a year or so? (Can't remember.) Starts out as a light yellow color. To me, this suggests oxidation, something a good lube should be resistant of. Also, it's quite thin. For guns, that didn't seem ideal to me. Grease IMO is better for slides and stuff, though thinner oil is needed elsewhere. For cars, it's just too expensive for realistic use unless there is a special application, like your ambulance example. I did pour some in my crankcase (2/3 the bottle? can't remember--a little less than the recommended amount; I wanted to have some left over) and didn't hear or feel a difference, and found it wasteful. Now, when I add a quart of Red Line synthetic motor oil to my crankcase, wow now that is the quietest I've ever heard my engine (still too expensive for me to justify using it 100%). If you took gear lube and made it thin, that's how I'd describe Militec-1. I also don't know where the heck Militec-2 and Militec-3 have been all these years <sarc>. (Stupid name, in other words.) One odd thing about Militec-1, and IMO its biggest testament, is it was difficult to keep in its container. It would seep through the plastic container threads if it wasn't kept perfectly upright after opening. I even tried using some plastic wrap under the cap to no avail. So, while that may be cool, it's annoying esp when you open your toolbox and have a coating of Militec-1 over most of what's in there.

ChicagoX, you're baiting me to go way off topic... resisting... resisting. You offer little even in terms of disclosing how much you've studied the subject. I havent studied it as much as circumcision, but it is something I have done some work on. I'd encourage anyone at all curious to websearch "water fluoridation" or equivalent terms. Much of the world spends lots of money to get fluorine OUT of their water. Do you know why? Because it ruins peoples' teeth and bones (makes them weak and brittle). And i KNOW you weren't suggesting that fluoride isn't toxic. Yeah, they used to use fluoride as the active ingredient in rat/mice poison. Know why they stopped using it? Because it was too DANGEROUS. I mean, to people. Too easy to poison others or yourself with. Worked too well. True fact. Look it up. It's hard to find anything more toxic than this stuff, per actual microgram. There are things, but we don't intentionally add things like Plutonium to water. My issue isn't even the poisonousness, or how it swaps out Fluorine for Calcium inside nerves and the brain and I believe contributes to depression and other subtle ailments and not-so-subtle ailments like Thyroid disease which will jack up your world, and many have thyroid/adrenal problems and don't know it. My issue is that it is NOT a nutrient. It is not "needed" nor is it wanted by our bodies, but it does mimic real, needed nutrients and supplants them. Municipal water fluoridation is literally, quite literally, forced medication. At best. At worst, it is even more. I personally believe that the Founding of our country, and our Constitution, enshrine a right of We The People to not be forcibly medicated. It also sets a horrible, extremely frightening precedent, which some people are not capable of imagining without chortling, scoffing, or mocking. For instance, if you are pro water fluoridation, you cannot logically oppose forced vaccinations (with no exceptions nor waivers). Some do, and don't realize the cognitive dissonance. Even if they were adding a "vitamin" to the water, "for our own good", I'd be against it. But fluoride which is a waste product of the aluminum and uranium industry, and illegal to dump into streams because it's too toxic to put into nature? So the industries get it put it in our drinking water instead?? WTF?? And yes, getting Teflon on your fingers can obviously end up with you having fluorine in your body (especially if you eat and lick your fingers). And, most people know nowadays that mere fumes from heated teflon pans will kill pet birds, who are more sensitive to the stuff than we are (which is why they used to be used in mineshafts, too). But, have you ever noticed that Teflon pans eventually "wear out", IOW the coating is gone after awhile. Ever wonder where that coating goes? Yeah some of it goes down your sink. But much of it ends up down your piehole.

I've studied "the Media" (how thought is controlled and disseminated) closely over the years. The more I learn, the more I realize, the more I see how much of what is told to us, and accepted without a second thought by most, is not just BS, but actually intentional lying. Call it propoganda: a lie which is repeated often enough, becoming truth. Through experience, I've concluded that so-called "alternative" media is the only way to even start uncovering a lot of this. Forums are actually so-called "alternative" media too, actually. It's difficult to control what's said on forums, though CPF does a pretty good job of that. Since the late 1990's, there has been an explosion in consciousness for people who actually spend time online looking into deeper matters. I've found that what on the surface appears to be true, is more often an illusion. To find out the real truth, it's necessary to look deeper. But that needs proactivity and requires time and attention, which amount to sacrifice. To find the illusion, requires no effort no sacrifice.

That's funny dihydrogen (H2) Monoxide (0) poisoning so she over dosed on H2O or drowned to be more specific, smart ass.

There is a thing called water intoxication actually, you drink too much water and the electrolyte concentration in your body drops and nerve signals no longer work, it’s deadly and it’s what killed that woman, not drowning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

That's what killed her.

Can we PLEASE move on from the conspiracy nonsense, and go back to the lube nonsense?

Wait, wha...???

I thought we were talking about men's semen.

dammit, where's kreisler when you need him.

This is one of the things I love about BLF.

I've got some grease here that Stihl recommends for most moving parts on their tools.. is it safe to use on aluminium or can grease corrode aluminium? I'm asking because one of my flashlights had grease and when I wiped it off, it was all grey..

NightCrawl there is no cure to the abrasive friction of soft bare aluminum threads rubbing against each other. it is true that silicone grease is the very worst on bare aluminum threads e.g. Quarks because it is a sticky substance (in comparison: water doesnt stick! sugary water does!) almost like glue! but even if you immersed your body and tail (all men got a tail, aint it?) fully in a bath of oil (massage oil, superlube oil, XXX oil, .. ) and did some twisting operation "under water (here: oil)" the threads would produce the grey gunk nonetheless.

Bare aluminum threads?? -- You Cant Fix Stupid.

Personally i use nano oil on aluminum threads .. but i am bound not to comment further on its performance other than the above general observation which holds true for all sub-20$ lubes ;)

Maybe I should anodize all threads.. :D

Haha, oh come on jack.. we know you're secretly taking notes on this thread.

:D

Who wants some fresh grease?

what you hands doin' unde table, hmm? twisting the tail?

It’s what I hate about BLF.

to each their own