Making fluid grease Filling burman CP gearbox

After recently fitting new layshaft bushes and a new final drive sleeve gear to my Burman CP gearbox, I need to top up the lubricant after its settled in just nicely. These type of boxes use a Fluid Grease, and being a complete skinflint, I learned how to make my own many years ago.

[@jdudb]

Interesting, never had to use fluidised grease. If you want to use those old grease niples without mess, but a piece of clean cloth between them and the grease gun and you find the grease goes through the cloth but does not spill.

[@HappyHands.]

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[@Gandalf4137]

Doesn't that interfere with the grease's properties, though? The vast majority of semi-liquid greases NLGI 0, NLGI 00, etc tend to be sold by the bucket, so that fact alone makes them very cost ineffective for people like me. Would a home-liquidized grease be usable for power tools like drills and angle grinders?
Thank you

[@thra5herxb12s]

The grease will still have the same properties but a bit thinner. Yes there are a few different brands of fluidised grease out there if you want to use a ready mixed one.

[@Gandalf4137]

Thank you for your reply. That sounds good as I need very small amounts of semi-fluid grease. (for some of my power tools) It's probably important to use compatible oils, though. I don't think I'd try to thin down a fully synthetic grease with anything other than a synthetic oil.@@thra5herxb12s

[@nitroboy2]

this would be good for a ariel VB600 ? (1950)

[@thra5herxb12s]

Perfect, but I make it a little thinner for winter use.

[@dennisyoung4631]

Gear oil? (Mixed Mobil 1 grease and 75-90 gear oil of the same brand for the 4x6 bandsaw.)

[@thra5herxb12s]

Yes it needs to be sticky enough to stay on the inside of these old unsealed gearboxes. There are various fluidised greases pre mixed out there.