I have used thick and thin lube on indoor and what I found is that on
some events thick lube can be bad as when winds get low and the rubber
is thin the rubber can "stick" to itself and not unwind completely or
tends to bunch rubber in the back and cause stalling. The bunching would
be on models like Bostonian or similar with high RPM and long motors or
on something with thin rubber like ministick. This was with Dow 33
grease. On the flip side too thin and I think it wrings itself out
during winding. I carry both a "thick" and "thin" in my model box,
sometimes dual coat with thick first then thin after I do a break in
wind. Lately I have been using what I call my "thin" lube which is a
UCON product that Fred Tellier use to get from where he works. It is
around 1000 cSt at room temp. Anything thinner like son of a gun or
glycerin green soap mixtures tended to squeeze out when winding in my
opinion. Some of it I think comes down to personal preference. I have
never found a lube that seemed to be the holy grail. My dad and I have
used green soap, boiled tincture of green, glycerin, lanolin, Liquid
Shine hair product, castor oil for many years, son of a gun, various
brands of personal lubricants, powdered teflon, Honda grease, Dow 33,
and UCON, and a product we boiled up once called "Laughing Gravy" after
we mixed in a bunch of stuff in one pot. In general I found that as long
as it did not wring out when winding they all pretty much worked the
same with the exception of too thick causing the issue I mentioned above
on certain models/situations.
Don S
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