Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:48 AM 3/6/97 -0500, you wrote: >The old stand-by is automotive axle grease, the 99-cents-a-can stuff we use >to repack our LBC front hubs every six months. John Van Stelten will >probably cringe when he reads this, though: there ARE specialty greases >available which are better for the job. > >German lenses from roughly 1937 or so through the War suffered from poor >lubricants, as the German POL supplies were being diverted to 'other' uses. > East German lenses continued to have lousy lubricants until the late >1950's before the Soviets started giving them some good stuff. > >Marc > I design optical instruments. In lens housing, which are the subject of the above note, we use Synthetic Air Tool Oil by the Break-Free Company in bearings and Extreme Pressure Lub #3 by CMD to lubricate threads and sliding parts. These lubricants work well for this application. Glen Robinson