I went shopping for Teflon grease with no success.
Bearing grease is listed as water resistant
Is there any good equilvalent to Teflon grease. At the end of the day I may
have to order Teflon grease from one of those Marine Internet stores. With
the price of gasoline looking for grease could cost more than the cost of
shipping.

"Peggie Hall" wrote in message
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Ryk wrote:
When things get a little sticky I just flush a couple of tablespoons
of olive oil and it gets much smoother. No adverse consequences I've
noticed over the years.

Waiting till "things get a little sticky" is tantamount to waiting till
your engine starts to smoke before adding any oil...'cuz toilets don't
GET "a little sticky" till all the lubrication is gone, and every time
you pump a "sticky" manual toilet wears the seals and o-rings.

So yes, what you're doing is...ok, but wears out the rubber parts in
your toilet faster, and is also a never-ending job every few
weeks...whereas an annual shot of thick teflon grease once a year as
PREVENTIVE maintence is only a 10 min. job once a year and extemds the
life of the seals and o-rings by years.

But...it's your boat...and if you don't mind spending twice as much for
olive oil as you need to, and are happy taking your toilet apart at
least once a year to replace rubber parts one at a time instead of just
rebuilding it once every 5-6 years, it's ok with me.

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Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"

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