Your preferred general purpose assembly grease please..

[DaveReading]

Weldtite seems an odd name for a grease.

 

[Sillyoldman]

I use marine grease which doesn’t go hard and works well.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I use marine grease which doesn’t go hard and works well.

I must be mixing my grease with viagra

 

[MontyVeda]

Bog standard car grease. Mahoosive tub bought decades ago for about a fiver. I have tried tiny tubs of bike specific greases for about a tenner, but the only real difference i can see is they empty quicker and cost more.

 

[slowmotion]

This stuff from Screwfix......

https://www.screwfix.com/p/granville-multipurpose-grease-400ml/8436p

 

[T4tomo]

.. primarily for use on areas like the seatpost tube, crankset into BB etc.

Ta

lithium grease on any threads, carbon paste for seatpost assuming its carbon or anything else carbon to carbon. general grease in a BB, that's just to keep moisture away from any metal bits assuming its a modern-ish sealed bearing type, lithium on the threads..

 

[presta]

my dad had a tin of grease that had a circle of metal resting on the top with a hole in it, as did the bike shop

That's for filling the grease gun: unscrew the cylinder, place the end over the whole, and push. I'm not sure what the metal on top of the bike shop was for.

 

[midlife]

Ah, now I remember my dad filling his grease gun

 

[Chris S]

I always used to use Vaseleine. It starts to melt at 30 degrees but we never used to get those sorts of temperatures in the UK.