great lube for z's / i wavers (or anything really)

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great lube for z's / i wavers (or anything really)

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i made a great discovery. i used some fancy bike chain lube on my diff and shocks and it's the shit! stuff's called krytech by finish line. there are other brands of this type like white lightning. the big deal with this muck is it's a parafin type wax suspended in a fluid. squirt it on and the fluid evaporates to leave a nice waxy coating. what this translates to is dust/hair repellant! with normal grease the shocks and diff would fill up with hair and dirt almost straight away. but after using this stuff i've had a few runs and all parts are clean and working smoooooov! it's not expensive, maybe $10 tops, but you get 4 fl oz in a bottle and if you're just using it on rc's it will last for ages. head down to your local bike shop and check it out, i'm not gonna use anything else. :cool:
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Good call, betty! I've got some White Lightning down in my bike tools, I'll have to give it a try. I've also used lock fluid, which is a similar suspension of graphite instead of parafin.
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ya i used to rock the white lightning for a while. tho actually teflon works better on a bike chain imnsho. i always thought of tryin white lightning on a bit but i dont have any.
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