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Re: Best grease for gears?
1519 also uses an automative-purpose White Lithium Grease (comes in a tube) for our gearboxes. It's worked quite well in the past!
Our typical procedure for brand new gearboxes (particularly for the drive train) are to build and grease them, then run them under no load to break them in. We stick an ammeter to them every few minutes and stop running them when the current seems to have stopped declining. I'd recommend alternating the direction of the gearboxes while breaking them in. Then we take them apart, wipe out the grease (which normally has steel dust in it), and re-grease them. We typically have no reason to take them apart ever again. This works well and helps the gearbox wear better over the season - I'm not sure what other teams do! :-)
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