I cleaned the old Lionel grease from the drive gears on my Lionel 282 magnetic crane that i have had from 1957. I read all of the comments on the Lukas Oil Company Red-n-Tacky Grease and applied this grease to the crane gears and the gear systems on all my locomotives. You should be able to but a tube of this grease at any auto store, I purchased a tube of this grease at Advance Auto. I started removing the grease from the tube by removing the plastic cap from the grease tube, grease was applied with a small bristle head Testor's paint brush, this brush works very well in applying the grease to the gear teeth. When done greasing, replace the plastic cap on the grease tube. As a general comment the 5 wire flat conductor cable on my crane was dry rotted and I replaced in kind, electrical contacts were sprayed with CRC electrical contact cleaner. My crane was not run since probably since 1960 the wire replacement, electrical contact cleaning and greasing of the gears was done in 2017, the electro magnet energizes and holds until released. Your crane and mine is probably on of the best accessory items that Lionel made in the post war era, cannot top the performance of this crane that was not operated in 57 years.
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