Non-toxic or Food-Safe Grease for Speedsafe?

[Cosmodragoon]

I switched to food-safe lubrication for my EDC items. Lubriplate FMO 350-AW has worked pretty well as oil so far. I have a couple of Kershaw knives with the Speedsafe mechanism. They specifically need a little grease. Does anyone have a favorite non-toxic or food-safe grease for this?

 

[Sosa]

Unless you’re gunna drive the knife past past the pivot through a slab of meat for a while don’t think it matters. Even then it won’t kill you.

 

[Cosmodragoon]

I've had properly lubricated guns, knives, or multi-tools in my pockets or up close to my body for most of the day, every day, for decades. I'd like as long a future as possible doing the same. No need to lean into the punch by having even slightly toxic lubrication soaking into my clothes or skin, a little bit, for all that time.

 

[Sosa]

Mineral oil based lubes lol. Vaseline. Some old farts drink mineral oil when they’re constipated. So maybe you should think about time on the toilet too

 

[bikerector]

food grade mineral oil is cheap and easy to find. Works well too. I think I bought a gallon for under $10 and will never run out of it at this rate. It's also common for treating wood food surfaces like cutting boards.

 

[Cosmodragoon]

I generally wipe down blade and tool surfaces with mineral oil after cleaning. Lubriplate gets used in the pivot. The question here is about grease. The Kershaw Speedsafe needs grease in the pocket around the torsion bar.

 

[21bangbang]

With all these lubes and such being magnets for dust and such, has anyone tried powdered graphite. The stuff the put in locks to help with sticky keys. As far as I'm aware it's not toxic, and seemed to work great on one of my autos. I know it's not food grade like OP wants, but perhaps a option.

 

[3fifty7]

Loctite makes a food grade grease in a 14oz tube that we used to lube all the saws and equipment in the fish market I used to work at.

 

[MittenStateMashers]

I use frog lube on all my knives and guns. Everything must be completely cleaned when making the transition from petroleums to frog lube and you need a hair dryer. That said frog lube is awesome for my applications and is %100 FDA approved. I even use it on my Les Baer custom 1911, that’s how much I trust it.

Once on the froglube program clean up is always easy and reapplication takes only seconds.

 

[bikerector]

Loctite makes a food grade grease in a 14oz tube that we used to lube all the saws and equipment in the fish market I used to work at.

This is what we've used in industrial food manufacturing as well. Or food grade petro jell.

The question here is about grease. The Kershaw Speedsafe needs grease in the pocket around the torsion bar.

Sorry I missed that before, normally light duty lubes are desired to keep from gumming the pivots up. Since the torsion bars aren't much of a moving component, I would do the petro jell myself.

 

[Mo2]

I switched to food-safe lubrication for my EDC items. Lubriplate FMO 350-AW has worked pretty well as oil so far. I have a couple of Kershaw knives with the Speedsafe mechanism. They specifically need a little grease. Does anyone have a favorite non-toxic or food-safe grease for this?

Lubriplate makes a food safe grease for your torsion bar. It will help it from rattling. I use finish line grease or the Chris reeves grease too. This grease normally stays in the pivot so it's not a huge deal to be food safe... I mean mostly.

 

[razorburn]

I use a SuperLube grease for all my zt assisted knives.It's a synthetic grease that is FDA approved