Slick Honey?

[buck91]

Has anybody heard of Buzzy's Slick Honey? Its a thin grease primarily marketed towards bicycle suspension seals and bearing surfaces, though I've found it works great in cable housings also. Anyways, I was curious if anybody has any tech info on this as I would be curious how effective and reliable it would be as a ball bearing grease as well as for other general purposes.

 

[miro]

It is fantastic stuff. Must have for any MTB'rs
I've never tried to used it in such application /Roll bearing/
This grease is intended to use by sliding friction applications.
many people use it also for seatposts, brake levers/derailleurs etc. All have sliding friction.

Slick Honey is repackaged Englunds Slickoleum, More info here http://www.slickoleum.com/

 

[buck91]

Been having ceremony seatpost issues no matter what and have been thinking of getting something like a thicker nlgi marine grease. Can anybody confirm the performance of SH in this app?

 

[miro]

Hi buck,
My little experience with this forum is that there not so many bicycle riders/mechanics.

Back to the question.
In general the rule is not what you use but.
1. How do you clean the surface?
2.How much do you apply lube/grease/locktite?
3.Clean carefully the excess.

here is one thread - http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Tech-Tuesday-Finding-and-Fixing-that-Creak-2011.html

In general, every bicycle mechanics have own recept to fight against such noises .
I still use the old proven way - apply line seed oil.
It is the well known trick used by wheel builders.
The line seed oil get sticky

 

[buck91]

Well I'm trying a thicker grease first with Triflow synthetic then if it returns I'll go thinner. Might have to break down I pick up a tub of polylube sooner or latter as it always seemed to work well in the shop.

 

[camelCase]

Slick honey is the GO TO grease for a lot of pneumatic paintball guns as well. It was a big hit with the matrix guys (spool valve style operation) because of it's incredibly low "break away force". I remember I could run my gun ~5psi or so lower when I used it. Plus it doesn't swell o-rings. When applications did require a little swelling - like a weird leak or some poppet&hammer style guns - we used Dow33 grease. When you didn't have any slick honey and didn't need any swell, Dow55 was the one to go with.