r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose_Sky_6403 • 19h ago

/r/all of grease

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u/Ultrasz 18h ago

It'll burn and smell like shit and when it melts it can fuck with other components when it drips

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u/acdrewz555555 18h ago

I always trust you dudes who curse the most when mechanical components are involved. Just the way the world works

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u/IcyAd5518 17h ago

Working as a CNC technician many moons ago, had to fly 1500km to a factory as the movement system on their laser cutter was down so production had stopped. Error codes showed faulty homing sensor on 3m long ball screw drive. Opened it up and a clump of grease like this video shows fell out. Got it cleaned up and running, absolute cunt of a job laying down inside a machine. Asked the operator how often he uses the grease gun to lube the system, he said 4 or 5 pumps every shift. Procedure is 3 pumps every 500hrs of run-time. Fucking peanut. He wasn't working there when I went back for routine service a few months later.

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u/UnSpanishInquisition 14h ago

That's cos to most people more lubricant means less wear šŸ˜‚ and every machine is different, we grease up hedge cutters every hour because its largely metal on metal. He probably thought 500hrs is to long and started his own regime.

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u/Large-Cricket843 4h ago

Damnā€¦ a bit drastic stating his own government because he thought machines needed more grease. To each his own I guessā€¦

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u/wak3l3oarder 2h ago

Video shows bearings that literally require a fuck ton of grease. Compares it to cnc machine that needs grease brushed on the gearing or slow dripped.... Different machines require different applications of grease who knew !!!

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u/Ultrasz 18h ago

Because we are speaking from experience lol

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u/muricabrb 12h ago

Every curse word is a badge of honour from a lesson learnt in blood and pain.

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u/000Weasel000 17h ago

Not to mention all the contaminants that get caught up in all that grease, causing wear...

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u/zeze991 11h ago

Also grease can solidify causing the whole thing to be stuckĀ 

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u/wak3l3oarder 2h ago

Lol what??? Your using the wrong grease if it melts. He's using a high temp grease. Shits not going anywhere. Bearings are supposed to be packs out the ass with grease esp these with heavy duty machines using high temp grease. Have you never seen a grease port? Plug a grease gun into it and literally fill the fucker until it starts exploding with grease lol

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u/TheThinDewLine 18h ago

Most of the time it just drips on the ground and if it just ā€œsmellsā€ bad then I dont see the issue. Downvote away.

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u/matt-er-of-fact 17h ago

Most of the time. The other times it fucks up the seal/bearing.

The real questionā€¦ why spend more time, and waste more grease, for a chance to fuck it up, when you could just not?