Harken McLube Sail Kote

[catalac08]

Dry PTFE lubricant & protective coating. Supposed to be good for furling gear and on sails to help in-mast reefing slipping in and out easily. Bit expensive at £20 a spray can (if it does not work!). Anyone used this and have any views?

 

[aluijten]

Using it all the time. Great stuff for torlon/delrin ball bearings, mast grooves, genua-cars etc, etc.

 

[charles_reed]

I've used it for about 5 years - superb for freeing up batten cars on fully battened mains.

The McLube is expensive - you can buy 750ml cans of dry PTFE spray in any decent engineers' merchant for about £8 - but the industry all know that yotties are rich fools waiting to be parted from their money with the maximum of boorish courtesy.

 

[vyv_cox]

£2.88 for 400 ml at Screwfix. Well worth having aboard for many purposes but not for £20 a tin.

 

[Adamastor]

@aluijten: Be careful with Sailkote on ballbearings. They do a product called OneDrop specifically for bearings: normal Sailkote is so slippery that ballbearings don't rotate, so it eventually damages the balls. For normal luffgrooves and things it's unbelievable, and I use it on telltales to stop them sticking against the sail in heavy weather, and you should also try it on a spinaker-snuffer ring- the difference it makes is like magic.

 

[Martin_J]

As the others have said.. perfect for use on sail slides.. Also used on a sticky sliding hatch.

Be careful though the hatch will suddenly feel like it's on ball bearings!