What grease for hedge trimmer?

[Stere]

Will  other grease do for a hedge trimmer gearbox instead of the overpriced Stihl Grease £10 for 80g?

 

 

From previous arbtalk threads people mention  a lithium EP2 grease?

 

 

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Being using weldite "cycling grease" on strimmer head for yrs but unsure about just using any lithuim grease  for trimmer gearbox when stihl are selling there special grease....

 

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[doobin]

Yes, we just stick the grease gun nozzle in and pump away. 

[gary112]

7 hours ago, doobin said:

Yes, we just stick the grease gun nozzle in and pump away. 

Same

[doobin]

Best to go heavy on the grease. It tends to emulsify and collect above and below the gears, but not on them. I usually give them a good half dozen pumps every month, it'll only work its way out past the plastic seals, you can't do any damage.

 

On the long reach machines the grease port that does the angle adjustment doesn't need that much.

[spudulike]

The Stihl spec is to re-grease every 25hrs, not sure too many actually do this and the next step is to work out that a set of gears is ££££££££

[swinny]

5 minutes ago, spudulike said:

The Stihl spec is to re-grease every 25hrs, not sure too many actually do this and the next step is to work out that a set of gears is ££££££££

I grease mine before a hard day's trimming... 6-7 pumps of grease in the main body. You can still hear it getting clackety later in the day