gonzobluefuzz
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Hey all,
Looking to pick your collective brains/experience. Sorry for the intrusion.....here goes.
I have a Manfrotto ballhead that had accumulated (what I felt to be) a large amount of sand, crud and other assorted good stuff. Part way into disassembly I discovered that these are lubricated with some sort of heavy almost dry grease. Since It was already most of the way apart I continued with the disassembly and cleaning.
I now have a clean disassembled ballhead. (BTW upon inspecting components wear appeared negligible to nil so I probably did this for nothing ).
Prior to reassembly I want to re-lubricate.... my question is what type of grease is usually used. I'm sure that my friendly local cam. shop would be more than happy to sell me a tube of "miracle ballhead lube" at $20 a nano blister pack. in all honesty thats not quite what I'm looking for! I'm looking for an equivalent/similar less specialized product that I could pick up at an auto supply or hardware store at a fraction of the cost.
I realize the amount of money involved is a pittance in the grand scheme of things but on the other hand I hate getting hosed at the register on this type of stuff.
Hope this makes sense,
Cheerz,
G
Looking to pick your collective brains/experience. Sorry for the intrusion.....here goes.
I have a Manfrotto ballhead that had accumulated (what I felt to be) a large amount of sand, crud and other assorted good stuff. Part way into disassembly I discovered that these are lubricated with some sort of heavy almost dry grease. Since It was already most of the way apart I continued with the disassembly and cleaning.
I now have a clean disassembled ballhead. (BTW upon inspecting components wear appeared negligible to nil so I probably did this for nothing ).
Prior to reassembly I want to re-lubricate.... my question is what type of grease is usually used. I'm sure that my friendly local cam. shop would be more than happy to sell me a tube of "miracle ballhead lube" at $20 a nano blister pack. in all honesty thats not quite what I'm looking for! I'm looking for an equivalent/similar less specialized product that I could pick up at an auto supply or hardware store at a fraction of the cost.
I realize the amount of money involved is a pittance in the grand scheme of things but on the other hand I hate getting hosed at the register on this type of stuff.
Hope this makes sense,
Cheerz,
G
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