Which grease?

[partingclouds]

What is the best grease to use on the gears in my Lewmar Pro Series windlass?

Thanks!

[GordMay]

I’d recommend using the same grease, as is in the windlass, now.
Gears that have been greased before, may have remnants of the old grease still in place. If an incompatible grease is introduced, there will be an interaction, that results in the soap and oil separating, and the oil leaking out. Bad things often result.

The most popular grease choices are lithium, lithium complex, and calcium sulfonate* grease.
Fortunately, lithium complex and calcium sulfonate greases generally have the advantage of being compatible with, both, each other, and many types of other common greases. However, calcium sulfonate greases are incompatible with bentonite clay grease, polyurea-based grease, and calcium complex grease.

* Calcium sulfonate greases tend to exhibit superior performance, in dropping point, shear stability, and oxidative resistance.

Lewmar Gear Grease [calcium-sulfonate] ➥ https://www.lewmar.com/content/lewmar-gear-grease

Lewmar Pro-Series /Fish Windlasses Product manual
➥ https://www.lewmar.com/Lewmar-Files/...414%20iss1.pdf

Page 13: “... • Clean thoroughly without solvent or wire brush and dry.
• Clean and lubricate Pro-Fish plunger.
• Re-Assemble, use grease to hold the drive pins (43) in place and small amount on the mating faces. ...”

Anchor Windlass Maintenance: 7 Tips to Know
➥ https://www.imtra.com/learning-cente...intenance-tips

Lewmar PRO-Fish 700 Windlass Maintenance
Video ➥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUeTb0A_RfY

[partingclouds]

Thanks, Gord! I appreciate your help very much. I got lucky and used what Lewmar recommended completely by accident.

[GordMay]

... you don’t reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings … serendipitously.
~ John Barth, 'The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor'