Can anyone recommend a good brand of grease and lubricants for reels that can be obtained locally ? I presently use Singer Oil (borrowed from wife’s sewing machine) to lubricate reels after a trip [:I] but have not come across any grease yet.
i know of alot of anglers that use marine wheel bearing grease for their reels. they r basically the same as normal automotive grease, except most have ptfe (teflon) chemicals. castrol, valvoline brands like them should stock the above stated grease. as with reel oil, the thicker the oil u use, the less often u will have to lube reel, the thinner the viscoscity of the oil the more often u will have to lube it. i remember seeing some daiwa reel oil in s. kepong when i was there last. but there r alot of alternative oils that u can use. just don’t use engine oil, way too thick for reel bearings.
Simple guide… 
Gear = grease
bearing = oil
The thicker the oil is to bearing then the bearing will be overloaded with the oil thus the bearing will stop quickly after a spin. The positive part is that you dont have to service your reel regularly.
The thinner the oil is to bearing, the bearing will spin longer but bear in mind, with less oil in the bearing, it causes friction..
This is quite crucial to anglers who uses baitcaster to do finesse fishing and also those surf guys who does surfcasting for distance..
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Thanks for the info guys, what are your comments about the clear oil you get free when you buy a reel..I have a couple of Shimano clear oil and a tube of Penn lubbricant. Am in Oz at the moment and picked up a tube of Force Ten reel lube which is saltwater resistant. Dont know how good it is. Any comments.Will be here till Sunday cost about AD6 … anybody want me to pick up some?
get urself some erskine’s (cals) drag and reel grease. about A$10 per tub, or the penn grease for slightly cheaper. u should be able to find alot of other brands of oil & grease in the bigger tackle shops around Oz. use the clear oil that is provided from shimano with the reels, or the red oil provided by daiwa for their reels. as it is original/genuine oil, i guess u cannot really say it is no good..
Some of the oil lubricant that i have used turned into greased after 1 round of game. Any idea why, or it’s meant to be like that? i wonder.
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oil should not turn into stick grease, the only way that it can turn sticky is if there is contamination of the oil. has it happened with spinning reels or BC or both??
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Both i would say…
Btw,
How to eliminate the gear meshing sound?
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haha.. when u grease the gears on your reels u might me putting too much grease on the gears, causing the grease to fling out under centrifugal force onto the bearings. also if the reel has been washed (eg run under a tap, accidentally dropped into water etc) it will cause the grease in the bearings to go all sticky as well. the main cause is placing too much oil into the bearings.
when u do grease the main gear and pinion gear (spinning reel) try to run the to gears together by hand (rotate them in ur hand, while they r meshed together). u will find a bit or alot of excess grease being squeezed out inbetween the gear teeth. wipe that grease away and reassemble. the only reason u do this is because the gears don’t need all that excess grease and the grease will cause excess friction and make the gears feel sticky. therefore the reel will feel like it need a bit or alot more inertia to start rotating. ermm… hope that helps, if u can follow it.
regarding elimanination of gear meshing sound, i dont think it can ever be done. the better the quality reel, the better(harder) the alloys/steel used to make the gear for durability. u cannot get a really smooth reel with hard alloys/steel. for example, spin a normal daiwa certate in ur hand, smooth & silent, spin a hyper custom certate in ur hand.. gear noise, its because of better/harder gearing internally. the softer the gear, the smoother and less noise it will produce. my daiwa exist is showing gear meshing noise and feel only after 5 months.. i know of alot of other exist and steez reels that r doing the same thing. have pulled the reels apart to inspect, but cannot fault anything.
I get what you mean on the gear meshing sound. Could it be over greased at the gear? Or it could be due to too much grease…?
I was hoping earlier that over-greasing it can absorb the sound, but unfortunately not. Same here, nothing is wrong on the gear, nothing is being installed wrongly, but i dont understand why it causes such sound… 
Heard the same with Stella, SAltiga and quite a number of high end reels…
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overgreasing it will only cause the reel to feel not as smooth.. err.. u will have to wind harder to turn the rotor/spool. only time u should be over greasing is if u have a main gear, pinion or oscillating gear that has one or a few tooth slightly worn (when u r waiting for parts to arrive). this is to stop the slap with the gears due to the excess freeplay. too much grease will also cause problems with contamination of bearings.
I think the gear meshing sound, which i had in my revo also could be caused by a backlash in the gears. It can be a little annoying but i dont think there is any impact on the performance. im currently using teflon grease bought from Uncle Bob and have no problems with it so far. I think lithium greases are also ok. But for reels which have rather light gearing, the viscosity of the grease should not be too high, or you will have the gears too sticky, or worse still, the gear will run dry, becuase the thicker grease will be too viscous to fill in the gaps of the gears and will be pushed out. just my two cents.
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em, me use NSK grease for my mechanical part gear and bearing. this grese realy hard to find and the price not so high… me recommended this grease because it’s not too thick but smooth, this grease usually used for linear motion parts… that mean, it’s suite for reels mech part… or try to find grease with code EP-3.. MOBIL.. hehehe
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Recently I have tried using chain lube (the one with aerosol can for lubricating motorcycle chain such as Castrol Chain Spray).
so far so good especially if you need quick lubrication without disassembling the whole reel. just poke the nozzle into reel opening and short burst of spray is enough to keep the reel into silky smoothness (for newer Shimano reels, there a lubrication port provided at the reel’s body)
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greeting to all sifu’s, does anyone here know where i could get some drag grease such as cal’s or shimano drag grease locally ?
Nicotine bro, try looking at sabre tackle at Jalan maharajalela, KL.
I’ve seen they had both before.
thank for the info bro, will pay that shop a visit soon =)
tq
My work need me to stay in the jungle most of the time so its hard for me to get my hand on rocket fuel, cal, erskine, reel x so & so. I use singer sewing machine oil for bearings in my abu, daiwa and dam bc reel, put 2 drop max, cast a mile. Catepilar dozer grease for gears. Been few yrs, so far so good.
buy a set of shimano aerosol spray oil and grease combo… one set can last your for years… i use this for all my reels
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