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Re: White Lithium vs. "Strawberry Jam" grease

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
Best you learn about Nitrile Gloves. Chemicals on Skin is easily avoided, and should be.

Clean the old grease off with isopropyl alcohol (with good ventilation): The 91% stuff is an excellent degreaser. That and a toothbrush will make short work of it.
WD40 also works as a very good degreaser. I'll second wearing gloves instead, but if that's not an option, most workshops have WD40 lying around.

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I can also speculate that mixing is harmless, but what if I'm wrong?
423 has a tube of white lithium grease that we used to grease all our gearboxes. Some of those gearboxes were AndyMark gearboxes with Strawberry Jam grease still in them (some also had a green grease I can't identify). As far as I know, we never saw any reactions or interactions between the two (or three) greases.
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