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Lots of farmers, contractors and truck drivers out there.
Lots of homeowners with some property that might have a backhoe or a skidloader, or just a tractor.
Lots of people who old trucks that can be greased. Or have replaced parts with ones that take grease.
All "every day Joe" people.
Lucas red and tacky has too light of a base oil. Only lives up to 1/2 it's name, it's red. That's about it.
like I said, I'll bite on the science. Tell me something that available everywhere I can switch to. I don't really care as long as it's not stupid expensive and adds some value.
but in all the trailers I own(ed), all the buggies I have built, driven hard, and wrecked, all the everything. I can't say cheap ass Lucas grease ever let something fail.
Mystik JT6 HT is probably the best, widely distributed, moderately priced grease on the market.
Here’s the thing about grease and failures...
People rarely recognize premature wear from the wrong grease / wrong amount of grease. Why not? Because they chalk it up to something they did and because getting down to it, actually finding what failed, why, is hard.
Let’s take one of the most basic farm implements, that a lot of people have. The disk It’s nothing more than cutting wheels on an axle that spin in bearings. Yet people have to replace these bearings all the time. They just chalk it up to a disk being a disk.
Using the right grease, with a proper maintenance program, you’d probably never have to replace the bearings.
Mower deck spindles. We’ve seen arfcom posts about this. Just peoples mower deck spindle going out... why? Well two reasons. Either you hit something and snapped it. Or the bearing ran out of lubricant. Didn’t grease enough? Well either grease more (clearly not happening) or get a better greased.
Excavator pins are probably the big one. Along with PTO shafts in trucks.
People who buy a used mini excavator or backhoe probably aren’t going to keep track of the hours they have on it before they need to replace a pin on their front end loaded or bucket. Why? Homeowner usage. People rarely take that much care in their maintenance tracking.
PTO shafts on trucks. Carrier bearings and U joints just need replaced right? Well... after how long?
It’s not that using the wrong grease will hard stop things from working... Using the wrong grease just shortens the life span.
Now given, sometimes it will hard stop. Put an aluminum complex grease in an electric motor. That’s... a great way to spend money.
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To continue. Using the right grease in an electric motor will save you energy. Using the right grease in an excavator or truck can make it swing faster, smoother. Or gain fuel economy. Along with extending life of what your lubricating.
Greasing is where the majority of lubrication failures happen. Which is why industries have been trying to move away from it.