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Rear wiper gearbox lubricant type?

Paul 290T

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Hi,

I'm in the process of cleaning out the old lubricant as part of an overhaul. I don't know what lubricant to use. The gearbox has a steel worm and brass worm wheel. The old lubricant is to my mind a grease.

A search of the internet tells me worm drives need a 680 grade gearbox oil. But I've idea how viscous that is or if its what was originally put into the gearbox.

Can anyone tell me what I should be using?

Thanks
Paul
 
Normal industrial wormgear boxes with steel worm & phosphor bronze wheel usually use a good quality gear oil filled to centreline of the steel worm-this also lubricates the bearings-most of these boxes are running continuously.

A windscreen wiper box has very intermittent use with light load & a good quality non-moly bearing grease should be quite suitable provided it encompasses the gear set.

 
Normally,the combination of a hardened steel ground worm running with a brass or preferably bronze wheel, given the sliding action of the gear contact, doesn't require the help of of a low friction additive such as Molyslip as the brass/bronze is to some extent self lubricating -.

Molybdenum Disulphide basically aids high pressure ,low speed gear contact as in a spur gear set where oil lubrication can be difficult unless pump fed.

Any automotive mechanism I've ever opened including things like window lift motors ,boot locking motors & windscreen motors have always had a simple yellow medium thick grease in them but am happy to be proved wrong.

I don't think you would go far wrong if a grease containing MoS2 were used but technically it is not necessary-one small advantage it has is the contact areas get a coating which aids starting in cold ,high load conditions.

Any grease in the right quantity is better than none as long as it coats the gear contact area.

By contrast,I have recently replaced the electric motor in my 18v Bosch Lithium Ion hedgetrimmer-the driving gear set is a high spur gear reduction driving an eccentric cam which gives the blade reciprocating motion.This hedgetrimmer goes into "sawing" phase if you cut a large item say 12mm dia & then reverts to trimming once cut.

I repacked the the whole drive area with a Moly type grease which is what appeared to be used when manufactured.The thing can run for over 30 mins or so almost continuously(we have a lot of hedges) plus the sawing occasions so a mix of slow,heavy & high speed duties coiupled with a spur gear set.

The original motor (made in China ,of course ) is a sealed unit of the type also used in model boats for example,& appears to have used up its brushes ,which aren't renewable.


 
Eldavo said:
Paul 290T said:
Vitesse,
out of interest why not moly grease?


Because of the holes - you end up with holy moly grease!

(I'll get my own coat, taxi)
And there was me thinking my sense of humour was oblique!of course I buy my grease wholysale[:D]
 
Vitesse,

Thanks for explaining the ins and outs of moly grease. I knew there would be a good reason.

I feel properly reassured to use standard grease.

Many thanks
Paul
 

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