A few years back, with the help of the knowledgeable folks here, I purchased 6 tubes of Schaeffer 274 grease to use for lubing my outboard and the wheel bearings on my boat trailer. It gets dunked in salt water once or twice a week over the season here in NY.
A tube lasts me a couple of years as the total distance the trailer travels is probably less than 500 miles/year and I have a gun just for the Schaeffer 274.
My gun had a tube left in it from last April when I pumped the bearings full for the season. This year I started to pump and got a bit of grease out and then nothing. I took the tube out, it was still about 1/4 full but the grease had become much denser, almost like a clay, and wouldn't pump. I used it for manually lubing some exposed parts and loaded a new tube to use on my fittings.
Is it normal for this type of grease to get denser over the course of a year? Is there any way to prevent this?
thanks, Rob
A tube lasts me a couple of years as the total distance the trailer travels is probably less than 500 miles/year and I have a gun just for the Schaeffer 274.
My gun had a tube left in it from last April when I pumped the bearings full for the season. This year I started to pump and got a bit of grease out and then nothing. I took the tube out, it was still about 1/4 full but the grease had become much denser, almost like a clay, and wouldn't pump. I used it for manually lubing some exposed parts and loaded a new tube to use on my fittings.
Is it normal for this type of grease to get denser over the course of a year? Is there any way to prevent this?
thanks, Rob