SDS drill grease

[AJB]

... is it 'special'? Or will something more standard (+cheaper +easier to find) do, like the multipurpose gunk I might use on the car..

[Chris Bacon]

Castrol molybdenum grease, 1/2 a kilo for a fiver.

[sPoNiX]

I use general purpose grease in mine with no problems.

It tastes the same so suspect SDS grease=gen purpose grease.

sponix

[John Schmitt]

Far better than graphite grease, it really cuts down wear. For the full story,

Schmitt

[PeTe33]

I used some C.V. joint grease from local autoparts shop in my old cheap as chips SDS beast. It's high pressure, high heat and rubber friendly.

Only down side is it's as black as black, so a little more obvious should you get some on the carpet.

:¬)

[PeteZahut]

ROFLMAO.

[Dave Fawthrop]

| ... is it 'special'? Or will something more standard (+cheaper +easier | to find) do, like the multipurpose gunk I might use on the car..

Having got a small pot of grease with my new SDS drill, I have been wondering what it is for.

[--s-p-o-n-i-x--]

There'll be a cap on the top of the drill which unscrews (Sometimes with a special spanner supplied with the drill).

The mechanism inside should be regularly greased (After every couple of hours use iirc)

sponix

[Dave Fawthrop]

| On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:59:46 +0000, Dave Fawthrop | wrote: | | >On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:18:35 -0000, AJB wrote: | >

| >| ... is it 'special'? Or will something more standard (+cheaper +easier | >| to find) do, like the multipurpose gunk I might use on the car.. | >

| >Having got a small pot of grease with my new SDS drill, I have been | >wondering what it is for. | | There'll be a cap on the top of the drill which unscrews (Sometimes | with a special spanner supplied with the drill). | | The mechanism inside should be regularly greased (After every couple | of hours use iirc)

Thanks, I haven't reached 2 hours running yet.

[AJB]

Isn't it to grease the splines of the bit before you insert it into the chuck?

[Lurch]

On or around Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:38:17 +0000, --s-p-o-n-i-x-- mused:

Don't know where you got that from, the grease is to apply to the drill bit before insertion into the chuck.

[Andrew Gabriel]

So did I. It destroyed the rubber nose on the SDS chuck, making it difficult to get the bits in and out. Metabo gave me a new chuck (I was very impressed with that response), but told me to use the right grease in the future.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Normally it's for greasing the back of the bit, to prevent excessive wear of the chuck (and bit).

[John Rumm]

Depends on your drill. The budget ones often have a grease filling port as described - and they can use significant amounts of it in time. Much of it ending up all over the tool, its user, and anything close by! The posher SDS drills have no such requirement but do suggest the occational lubrication of the drill bit shank.

[Kaiser]

Get a tube of silicon grease, it doesn't perish the rubber dust protector on the front of the SDS chuck, and it's what DeWalt supply with their SDS drills.

[Chris Bacon]

No, the bits aren't splined.

[Chris Bacon]

There is a cap on my cheapie - can't remember about the DW I'm "saving up" - it's unscrewed with a peg spanner, and the bumf says change every X time, whether or not the drill's been used.

[PeTe33]

Grease & masonary dust are two things you want to keep well away from eachother esp. where there is a mechanical fit between 2 important objects.

[PeTe33]

Remembering it's silicon not silicone.

:¬)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember AJB saying something like:

I just give the orifice (ooh err) a squirt of forktruck chainlube every so often. It's surprising the difference it makes.