Best Lubricant for Kennedy Friction Slides

[MrPink]

Ok so i have a 40+yr old Kennedy tool box that i will be removing the drawers on to clean it up and lube the slides, what is the best way to lube the friction slides? And what brand of lubricant do you recommend?

 

[RTM]

Kennedy used to recommend plain old boring paraffin wax. The canning kind. Don't use beeswax.

 

[Buckgnarly]

I use a dry graphite spray lube in my SO friction slides.

 

[PCustoms]

Does Kennedy need a unique lubricant?

Best Cleaner/Lubricant for Vidmar Toolbox Drawer Slides?

I recently bought a nice 15 drawer Vidmar cabinet at an auction. All the drawers work, but they're a bit gummy/sticky from years of industrial grime. Anyone have the secret sauce for cleaning and re-lubing these bearing wheel drawer slide units? If you are un-familiar, Vidmar cabinets...

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There's also a thread about matco too...

 

[AEAdam]

Does Kennedy need a unique lubricant?

Best Cleaner/Lubricant for Vidmar Toolbox Drawer Slides?

I recently bought a nice 15 drawer Vidmar cabinet at an auction. All the drawers work, but they're a bit gummy/sticky from years of industrial grime. Anyone have the secret sauce for cleaning and re-lubing these bearing wheel drawer slide units? If you are un-familiar, Vidmar cabinets...

www.garagejournal.com

There's also a thread about matco too...

Maybe. Are those ball bearing slides in those threads, or friction slides like Kennedy?

 

[Buckgnarly]

Does Kennedy need a unique lubricant?

Best Cleaner/Lubricant for Vidmar Toolbox Drawer Slides?

I recently bought a nice 15 drawer Vidmar cabinet at an auction. All the drawers work, but they're a bit gummy/sticky from years of industrial grime. Anyone have the secret sauce for cleaning and re-lubing these bearing wheel drawer slide units? If you are un-familiar, Vidmar cabinets...

www.garagejournal.com

There's also a thread about matco too...

He's talking friction slides, not ball bearing or rollers.

 

[RTM]

More old history

The Right Slide Lubricant?

This is probably a dumb question but I have been cleaning my Kennedy roller cabinet and getting it ready to take to work. I originally cleaned and lubed the ball bearing slides with the dry film lubricant that was recommended in a lot of threads. Anyways the stuff dried up, turned white and...

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Best lube for toolbox drawer slides

I have an old Snap On Taco wagon tool box The slides are not the ballbearing type They are old style plain slides. I've cleaned them but they sure slide hard Any suggestions on lube? Don't use the box everyday

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[PCustoms]

He's talking friction slides, not ball bearing or rollers.

Ok.

Didn't answer my question. Do they need different lubrication?

 

[Buckgnarly]

Ok.

Didn't answer my question. Do they need different lubrication?

Yes.

 

[tool_scrounge]

Kennedy used to recommend plain old boring paraffin wax. The canning kind. Don't use beeswax.

+1 on this . It works amazing well. Just clean off all the old lubricant before applying the wax. Just take a block of wax and rub it on all the slide , drawer and toolbox slide surfaces.

 

[AEAdam]

I feel like you should separate lubricity from corrosion prevention. I’ve tried a couple things on mine. Not sure which is best. I used candle wax on one of them (52611). Wd40 on a few and the wd40 dry film lube with teflon on others.

in my case, the finish wears and I get rust

 

[Schurkey]

Anything that traps and holds dust/dirt/garf/garfelderfarb especially via static electricity is a non-starter. Wax sounds good to me. MAYBE there's some mild issue with dirt embedding in the wax, but that's still better than an oily mess with an attraction to whatever **** is floating around in the air.

 

[jayemm]

 

[alinc100]

A former co-worker cleaned up a Beach toolbox to almost showroom new. We had access to several different lubrications, wax,parrafin,etc. What he found he liked the best was Edge Cutting wax. Of course he/we were not buying it. But a tube should last a very long time. Applied with a cloth as it is crumbly /flaky. https://www.zoro.com/lps-tapmatic-e...9C3DVsmY2efKJbvqBoGZ1bJZSaTXafYIaAg7_EALw_wcB

 

[Ohio Andy]

I have no good answers, but someone mention paraffin. I am reminded of a bicycle spray chain lube that I think when the fluid evaporated off left it a waxy film on them. Have not seen or used it in years but it might be worth looking at

 

[Firebrick43]

Years ago when I had a Kennedy taco cart that I rolled around the plant I used synthetic grease. It worked as well as lithium white grease but didn’t get hard after a while as white grease did.

I think it was SCH 100 but that was just because we had it. Super lube would work as well and a lot easier to obtain.

 

[tool_scrounge]

I have no good answers, but subscribe mention paraffin. I am reminded of a bicycle spray chain lube that I think when the fluid evaporated off left it a waxy film on them. Have not seen or used it in years but it might be worth looking at

White Lightning Clean Ride Self-Cleaning Wax Bicycle Chain Lubricant​

works quite well on roller slides. I like paraffin better for friction slides