On the 027 forum there is a question about lubing freight car wheels. Do any HO modelers do the same to their freight cars? If so what are you using ? How about loco's, do you lube them as well and with what. Thanks
Bruce
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671/681 posted:On the 027 forum there is a question about lubing freight car wheels. Do any HO modelers do the same to their freight cars? If so what are you using ? How about loco's, do you lube them as well and with what. Thanks
Bruce
Way back when I was modeling in HO, I always LaBelle lubricants. I now use nothing but ExEll products since I went 3-Rail SCALE, in about 1992.
The only time I've oiled freight car axles in HO would be if I had one that was squeaking, which doesn't happen all that often.
I'll second the vote for LaBelle products, they've always worked well for me. As far as lubing a locomotive, I generally use oil such as LaBelle 107 or 108 on axle, motor and worm-gear bearings (just a drop is plenty), and a drop of gear oil on the drive gears in the trucks. The worm gear itself gets a bit of grease. With the slippery plastic used in most HO locomotive gears, oil works just fine and won't harden over time.
For HO freight cars, I've never found it necessary to oil typical Athearn and MDC wheelsets with steel needlepoint axles in plastic truck sideframes. They roll well with low friction, vastly better than postwar Lionel wheelsets with wheels rotating on axles.
