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| Cable lubrication
I recently found a great lubrication for cables and all moving parts. It is called ZEP 45. It is a diesel lubricant. A friend that is a diesel mechanic told me about it and I have noticed that it seems to work better than anything else I have tried.
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Jun 4th, 2009, 06:42 PM
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| thanks for the tip!!!!!!
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Jun 4th, 2009, 08:02 PM
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| Zep works real good. It doesn't trap dirt and dust like WD 40 does. I use it at work all the time and have good results.
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| where can you get it from ?
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| From a Zep Products catalog on the internet | |
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Jun 6th, 2009, 11:22 AM
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| I'd like to try it against Tri Flow Spray !
I've never found a lubricant as good as Tri Flow. 
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Jun 6th, 2009, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by cardboard  I'd like to try it against Tri Flow Spray !
I've never found a lubricant as good as Tri Flow. | nice picture cardboard
I myself use zep 45 and bardal, would like to try tri flow against them is it common, as I don't recall seeing it anywhere.
also zep 45 works very well when servicing your garage door recoil springs. FYI
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| thanks I will get some
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Jun 10th, 2009, 09:47 AM
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| I have had preety good luck with 3&1 oil, just a light machine oil. I hang my cables up and make a funnel with paper or kitchen foil around the upper end, keep the funnel full of oil until oil cokes out the lower end. works very well and lasts a good long time.
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Jun 10th, 2009, 11:43 AM
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| If you ever want to lub it good git a cable oiler and some Tri Flow Spray and do it right. It makes the job much easier. Cable Oiler
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Jun 10th, 2009, 05:13 PM
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| cardboard, i have one of those.....in my opinion they are a P.O.S.!!! i have tried using their instructions, my instructions, hell i stopped a goober and asked for his instructions. the lube still went everywhere except down the cable.....
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| Got a buddy in Cape Royal with one, we pulled the cable and put it around the cable and tighten it up on the cable , it has a place for a plastic nossel to go in. We sprayed the lube down in the cable , the one he has worked great. It forced the lube down into the cable.
I will have to ask Bud where he got his.
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Jun 10th, 2009, 06:56 PM
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| i used the tube, without the tube, hell i tried to shovel it in.......pos
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Jun 10th, 2009, 11:04 PM
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#16 | | More than 100 posts!
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| I've had a couple of those clamp on cable luber things. Thats why I do it the way I do. I guess I could do the same funnel, thing then squirt the tri-flow or zep45 in the funnel.
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