{"id":6928,"date":"2025-05-25T20:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T20:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2025-05-25T20:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T20:35:57","slug":"real-motor-oil-on-rc-car-gears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=6928","title":{"rendered":"Real motor oil on RC car gears?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real motor oil is designed for fluid film lubrication in car engines at high temperatures. RC gears, especially in electric models, often require thicker, clingy lubrication like grease. Motor oil will sling off quickly due to centrifugal force, leaving gears unprotected.<\/p>\n<p>So the answer is NO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real motor oil is designed for fluid film lubrication in car engines at high temperatures. RC gears, especially in electric models, often require thicker, clingy lubrication like grease. Motor oil will sling off quickly due to centrifugal force, leaving gears unprotected. So the answer is NO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6929,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions\/6929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}