NH575E
Senior Member
Anybody ever substituted anti-seize in place of grease?
A while back I packed a small grease gun with anti-seize and tried in on my stabilizer feet. They seem most prone to the grease drying up and causing me to have to work on them to get new grease in.
I was greasing my hoe yesterday and when I plugged onto the stabilizer foot and started to shoot grease in I was reminded I had packed it with anti-seize. The anti-seize started to ooze out the sides and was still fluid.
I wonder if it would be worth the expense to grease the whole thing with this stuff. What I use is the nickle base that is the highest temperature rated. I have tried the regular silver stuff on boiler element bolts and it solidified but the high temp nickle did not. Seems like it would stay put longer and increase the greasing interval times.
I can't seem to find any in a 14 ounce tube though. I have found copper base but I see warnings against using that for certain stuff. Mainly warning not to use it for outboard motors. I have used copper base on exhaust bolts before.
https://industrial.bostik.com/grease-anti-seize-know-difference/
I usually use a good 5% moly and don't grease as often as I should but so far my pins seem to be holding up well.
A while back I packed a small grease gun with anti-seize and tried in on my stabilizer feet. They seem most prone to the grease drying up and causing me to have to work on them to get new grease in.
I was greasing my hoe yesterday and when I plugged onto the stabilizer foot and started to shoot grease in I was reminded I had packed it with anti-seize. The anti-seize started to ooze out the sides and was still fluid.
I wonder if it would be worth the expense to grease the whole thing with this stuff. What I use is the nickle base that is the highest temperature rated. I have tried the regular silver stuff on boiler element bolts and it solidified but the high temp nickle did not. Seems like it would stay put longer and increase the greasing interval times.
I can't seem to find any in a 14 ounce tube though. I have found copper base but I see warnings against using that for certain stuff. Mainly warning not to use it for outboard motors. I have used copper base on exhaust bolts before.
https://industrial.bostik.com/grease-anti-seize-know-difference/
I usually use a good 5% moly and don't grease as often as I should but so far my pins seem to be holding up well.