{"id":29,"date":"2004-07-27T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2004-07-27T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T01:12:00","slug":"degreasegrease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/degreasegrease\/","title":{"rendered":"Degrease\/grease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to get a call from Jane today. She wanted to know what solvent to use to clean her RollerBlade bearings. Justin told her I&#8217;ve done this before which I have. I&#8217;m sure there are better things to use &#8211; like a real degreaser. But I&#8217;ve used mineral spirits (AKA paint thinner) in the past. I have probably tried to use acetone, but it&#8217;s not as good. I hope this helps her. <\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the issue of what sort of grease to use after they&#8217;re clean. I have some heavy duty automotive bearing grease in a big tub, and I also have some lighter SLX (Synthetic\/Lithium Complex) oil in a tiny bottle. The former is cheap, and easy, and the latter I picked up at an inline skate shop, and was probably expensive (I can&#8217;t remember). My plan is to send her a small (1 tablespoon) packet of the cheap stuff.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/images\/BearingGrease.JPG\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve gotta convince my wife that the postal service won&#8217;t confiscate it in shipment. She&#8217;s worried that this packet of dark brown goop is a national security risk. Geez, what has the world come to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to get a call from Jane today. She wanted to know what solvent to use to clean her RollerBlade bearings. Justin told her I&#8217;ve done this before which I have. I&#8217;m sure there are better things to use &#8211; like a real degreaser. But I&#8217;ve used mineral spirits (AKA paint thinner) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}