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Al Thomason Al Thomason is offline
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Default Grease for seacocks ..


Assuming you are talking about old style Bronze seacocks, ones with a
tapered plug in it. ( Not sure the newer ones with the Ball use
grease).

1st, if they are running ruff, clean them well and use a little 'Valve
Lap' compound (auto store) and work them around a few times. This
will even up any worn areas. Skip this step if they already work
well, no hang ups, and do not leak out the sides.

Then I understand the best is any good water-proof grease, someone
said Trailer bearing grease. Key is that it does not wash out, and
that it will not create odd currents being in salt water.

-al-

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:58:15 GMT, "NE Sailboat"
wrote:

Which one? White lithium? Is there a special boat grease?