HOTAS Grease

[chriswheatland]

If anyone is looking for really good grease for their HOTAS setup, I found NyoGel 767A on eBay being sold in very small quantities.

http://ebay.us/AGVcmC?cmpnId=5338273189

[Disarray]

Common household vaseline works well for this too.

[kalnaren]

Originally posted by Disarray:

Common household vaseline works well for this too.

I'd rather use a silicon grease for anything that has plastic or rubber components.

[chriswheatland]

Update to the listing. It's now here:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164266114166

[startrekmike]

Originally posted by Disarray:

Common household vaseline works well for this too.

No, it really, really doesn't. Vaseline is a petroleum based lubricant and it is well established that it will eat away and degrade plastics, it might not happen right away but it will happen none the less.

When greasing a HOTAS, it is smarter to use some sort of silicone or hydrocarbon grease since they don't negatively react to plastics and are cleaner and more reliable. If you really are using Vaseline, stop. At the very least, switch to something like plumbers grease (a silicone grease) as a alternative.

[198xAD]

Originally posted by startrekmike:

Originally posted by Disarray:

Common household vaseline works well for this too.

No, it really, really doesn't. Vaseline is a petroleum based lubricant and it is well established that it will eat away and degrade plastics, it might not happen right away but it will happen none the less.

When greasing a HOTAS, it is smarter to use some sort of silicone or hydrocarbon grease since they don't negatively react to plastics and are cleaner and more reliable. If you really are using Vaseline, stop. At the very least, switch to something like plumbers grease (a silicone grease) as a alternative.

Another good choice is dielectric grease from the auto parts store. Safe to use on rubber and non-conductive.

[unknown]

It depends on your joystick, but when i was running a warthog i liked naval boat greece as it was designed for high tension situations and its electronic and plastic safe. but with cam designs you want something thats thinner and more slippy and if your using a mechanical base you don't need plastic safe since its all metal and barrings.

You can get a big tube for 10 bucks as harbor freight and it works extremely well. Look for an NGLI rating of 3 for the warthog (i tried 2 and 4 and found that 4 was a bit too stiff and 2 was too liquidy for long term use) and a 1 for a mechanical base (you are just lubing the area that the barring sets on so you want it as thin as possible. WD40 actually works very well here)