**urgent** best grease for heq5 pinions

[iwols]

hi just half dismantled my heq5 and just wondered what the best grease would be for the ra and dec  pinions cheers what about this

https://www.screwfix.com/p/wd-40-specialist-white-lithium-grease-400ml/46103

Edited February 11, 2021 by iwols

[malc-c]

When I stripped my HEQ5 I used white lithium grease so yeah that should do - Mine cam in a tube and resembled the consistency of toothpaste 

[bottletopburly]

Dave at rowan recommend https://transair.co.uk/aeroshell/aeroshell-grease/aeroshell-grease-64/aeroshell-grease-64-400gm-cartridge-mil-g-21164d-def-stan-91-57 in a post once.

[Budgie1]

I used THIS grease when I stripped down my EQ5.

[billhinge]

define best grease, everyone has a favourite, there are more holy war threads about grease on the internet than anything 😂

Personally I used WS2 grease, developed by nasa, slippiest substance known to  man, you can  make teflon slippier, its hard, thin, overtime it  binds into  the metal and  you can actually powder coat metal to  dry lubricate without grease, they use it in space and high performance engineering

http://ws2.co.uk/engineering-ws2-applications.php

seems to be hard to get the grease/powder in this country, I had to order it from US several years ago

but many  people seem to recommend superlube, I also tried lubriplate plus various  teflon bike greases all seem to work but not sure how to pick the best (wasn't keen on bike grease I seem to recall)