Does 75-Year-Old Grease Outperform Brand New Bearing Grease?

I can’t speak on behalf of all of the older generation. However, if you ask somebody like my nearly 70-year-old father or maybe one of his friends, they will tell you that “They just don’t make things the way that they used to.”

While we haven’t necessarily done the research to back that up, sometimes it doesn’t feel like it’s such a far-fetched sentiment. At the end of the day, a lot of the new technology is nice but how does it really compare when face to face with the simplicity of old tech?

Well, if we want to take that feeling and turn it into some sort of usable data, perhaps a good place to turn in somewhere like the YouTube channel that they have over at Project Farm. The whole idea of the channel is to take all sorts of different things and stretch them to the limits to see what’s the best. Normally, these tests compare different brands to see if one can reign supreme over the other.

This time, though, the idea is to take old and new, comparing each to the next. The topic of discussion this time is none other than a little bit of grease. Could grease that has been sitting around for 75 years possibly be a better product than something fresh off of the shelf?

Now, no matter what the result of something like this is, we aren’t sure that anybody is going to be heading to the store and searching for an old can of grease to purchase.

However, maybe it’ll help us to shed a little bit of light on if it’s a good idea to grab that can of grease off of the shelf that has been sitting forever and put it to use. Even better yet, we will have another piece of evidence for or against the idea that “they don’t make them like they used to.”