Spindle Grease

Posted on by kattouchthis

My angular contact bearings cost me well over $500.  Since it wont be easy to lubricate them, I will be using some kind of grease.

Well, like every oil thread out there, lots of opinions abound.  Here is the most popular:

  • Kluber Isoflex NBU-15
  • DOW Molykote G-2001
  • DOW BG-20 and BG-555 Synthetic
  • Mobil SHC 32

Here are the Mobil and DOW product manuals.

https://www.dowcorning.com/content/publishedlit/80-3256.pdf
http://www.mobilindustrial.com/ind/english/files/sc_grease.pdf

The winner?  Kluber.  Why?  Most everyone either loves it or will argue against it because it is too expensive. But really, I am only lubricating two bearings, perhaps once every year or two.