Silicone-Spray for lubricating without oil and fat

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• • 200 ml
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    Silicone-Spray for lubricating without oil and fat 200 ml
  • Product No.: 25300 / EAN: 4017777253009
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• • 400 ml
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    Silicone-Spray for lubricating without oil and fat 400 ml
  • Product No.: 25307 / EAN: 4017777253078
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Silicone spray

What is silicone spray used for?

Silicone spray is a lubricant and slip agent, but also a release agent, insulating agent and care product. It is suitable for mineral oil free lubrication of all materials and is a clean, odourless alternative to other lubricants based on oils and greases. It has low surface tension and therefore wets all surfaces very well. Silicone itself, on the other hand, can hardly be wetted, which is why it repels water and dirt so well. This makes it very popular as a release agent and lubricant.

Silicone spray replaces other unwanted or unsuitable lubricants and protects all parts made of rubber, plastic, wood and leather (especially faux leather) as well as metal, glass, textiles etc. that need material-friendly care. The silicone layer protects the material against the weather while remaining invisible and non-sticky. The protective film is also extremely stable in a temperature range from -50 °C to +200 °C. Silicone spray also prevents materials from sticking together that either lie against each other for a long time (e.g. door seals) or are processed under high pressure (e.g. in presses).

Silicone spray applications

Thanks to its outstanding properties, the product is used in a great many areas. Any list can therefore never be complete.

Lubricating doors and windows

• It is ideal for caring for plastic roller shutters. If the shutter squeaks, simply lubricate the guide rails on the left and right. The shutter curtain itself can also be protected from becoming brittle with silicone spray.
• The spray keeps door seals and window seals supple, so they seal better than neglected, dirty or brittle rubber seals.
• For lubricating window fittings, a lock spray – which you can also use to oil a door lock – is the right choice. In principle, silicone spray is also suitable for a door lock, but a lock spray lubricates better.
• Silicone spray is all you need to lubricate a garage door. Almost all rollers on up-and-over and sectional doors are made of plastic. You can also perfectly care for all other plastic parts, metal joints and bearings on the garage door with it.

Car care with silicone spray

There are many recommendations for using silicone spray to care for cars and other vehicles. Some of them are wrong and lead to problems.

What silicone spray is suitable for on your car

• Door seals:
  Silicone spray prevents freezing and brittleness. Because silicone is water-repellent, any ice that forms is also insulated and does not stick to the door seals. This helps prevent frozen car doors. At the same time, the rubber seals around doors, boot lids and sunroofs stay supple and do not become brittle. If the car door is frozen shut, only heat will help at first – e.g. with a hairdryer.
• Plastic parts:
  Older cars, youngtimers and classic cars in particular often have black plastic parts on the outside. These fade due to UV radiation and become brittle over time. If you treat such parts with silicone spray, the black plastic looks like new again. Regularly caring for plastic parts exposed to the weather greatly increases their service life.
• Tyres:
  If you want your tyres to look good, you can also use silicone spray. But be careful: it is a lubricant and must never be applied to the treads or brakes. If you want to apply a care product to your tyres, only apply it to the sidewalls. But do not spray the sidewalls directly either. It's best to spray a cloth and rub it in very sparingly from the rim towards the tread.
• The perfect solution for windscreen wipers that smear is to clean and care for them with a little silicone spray. Even the tiniest bit of dirt on the wiper blade causes smearing. But don't spray the silicone directly onto the wiper – that would be far too much. Simply spray it onto a clean cloth and use it to treat the wiper rubber. That stops the smearing.
• The second cause of smeared windows is dirt on the glass. While driving, you can quickly improve visibility with the washer system. However, this won't fully solve the problem. The windscreen needs to be cleaned. You can do this with glass cleaner or a trip to the car wash.
  By the way: silicone spray also helps if your windscreen wipers judder.
• Silicone spray for car windows:
  You can also care for the rubber seals of the side windows with silicone. As with the wiper blades, don't spray the window seals directly but spray a clean cloth and use it to treat the seals.
• Some cars have a squeaking problem with the rubber window surrounds. This problem can also be solved quickly and easily with silicone spray. The spray is applied under the sealing lip, and the movement while driving – especially when cornering – distributes the silicone evenly. In some cases the process needs to be repeated if the squeaking windows haven't completely stopped.
• Silicone spray as a dashboard spray:
  Plastic dashboards can be treated beautifully with silicone spray as a dashboard spray. Many dashboard sprays are silicone-based anyway. There are also other dashboard sprays that clean with alcohol and apply a protective layer with waxes or other agents. As there are many different plastics today, we generally recommend testing all sprays on an inconspicuous area first. If you are happy with the result, treat the whole dashboard.
• Silicone spray fixes seat belt retractors:
  If the seat belt no longer retracts by itself, the retractor mechanism is usually sluggish. In this case, silicone spray is the best remedy. Mineral oil based oils are completely unsuitable for the mechanism and the belt itself and also soil clothing.
• How to fix the seat belt retractor:
  
  1. Pull the belt out completely. Place a large cloth over the seat.
  2. Lightly spray the belt from a distance of 25 to 30 cm and let it retract. It is enough to spray just the end of the belt (the last 50 cm to 1 metre).
  3. Repeat the process on the back of the belt.
  4. Then let the belt extend and retract several times.
  5. If the effect is not yet sufficient, you can repeat the process.
  6. Finally, wipe the belt with a clean cloth.

Not suitable: what you shouldn't do with silicone spray on your car

• Squeaking V-belt:
  Squeaking V-belts must not be treated with silicone spray. V-belts work through friction. The spray reduces friction and the V-belt slips. It will stop squeaking – but it will also stop working.
  
  In almost all cases, the squeaking noise indicates that the wear limit will soon be reached. The V-belt slips and can no longer immediately follow the movement of the drive pulley. This usually starts in cold, damp conditions. Sometimes slight re-tensioning can help. In almost all cases, however, a new V-belt will be needed sooner or later. Special V-belt sprays only get rid of the squeaking briefly, if at all.
• How to stop your V-belt squeaking:
  Take care when re-tensioning: an over-tensioned V-belt can even destroy the bearings of the units it is supposed to drive – above all the alternator, which is what the V-belt is there for. So if your V-belt squeaks, you should think about replacing it.
• Silicone spray on tyres:
  It must not be used on tyre treads. Silicone is a lubricant. As described, you can care for the tyre sidewalls with it if you follow the instructions above.
• Pedal rubbers on the accelerator, clutch and brake are stepped on thousands of times and look it. But you must not use silicone spray to improve their appearance. The risk of your foot slipping off the pedal is too great. If their appearance bothers you, replace the pedal rubbers with new ones.

Other applications

It is not suitable for:

• Creaking stairs, creaking laminate and creaking floorboards – silicone spray helps only briefly, if at all. Unfortunately, silicone spray cannot provide a permanent fix for creaking floors. These problems can only ever be solved structurally, because the creaking comes from movement and friction, which wears the silicone away after a while.
• If your slatted bed base squeaks, silicone spray also only helps briefly. It is always small points of friction that cause the squeaking. Sometimes it's the bed frame that squeaks. In these cases, tightening the connecting screws usually helps. If the cause is two slatted frames rubbing against each other, a piece of felt between them can help.

It is suitable for:

• Silicone spray is ideal for fridge door seals. Silicone is even the care product of choice for freezers, as it remains effective at very low temperatures. This keeps the seals supple and ensures they close tightly for good.
• Silicone spray is often used when a zip is stuck. Cover the fabric if necessary or spray onto a cloth to get the zip moving again. However, the dropper bottle with liquid silicone oil is easier to use for stuck zips.
• In sport, the mineral oil free lubricant is used, for example, on treadmills. Regular care of the treadmill not only prevents squeaking but also keeps the belt supple and reduces wear and strain on the motor.
• Hedge trimmers need lubrication and are used outdoors in nature. We therefore recommend avoiding mineral oils for lubrication and using silicone spray or Ballistol Universal Oil for hedge trimmers instead.
• Prams and pushchairs are lubricated and cared for with silicone spray. Firstly, this keeps mineral oils away from the pram, and secondly it is suitable for all applications on the pram.
• Even slides are treated with it. If the sliding surface is no longer slippery, simply spray it on and wipe it off.
• Silicone spray can also be used for waterproofing textiles, e.g. for outdoor use. Faux leather, tents, tarpaulins, latex, convertible roofs etc. become water-repellent and are protected against the weather. If you only want to waterproof, you can also use our waterproofing spray for all natural and synthetic fibres.
• In industry, the mineral oil free lubricant is widely used as a release agent, e.g. in casting, or as an assembly spray, e.g. for hoses, pipes, O-rings, fittings etc., as well as to prevent sticking and improve slip. In paper and wood processing, the lubricant is used to prevent residues of paper, wood or adhesives from sticking to presses and machines. Cutting tools and cutting edges are also treated with silicone spray to allow easy cutting and a clean result.
• In logistics, it is used to improve the slip of conveyor belts and thus prevent goods from sticking.
• Silicone spray has an insulating effect and resists electrical currents. It is used, for example, for insulating or sealing ignition systems.
• Silicone spray is also used as a slip agent or aid for pulling covers and tubular jersey over foam. The best way is to lightly spray the long sides of the foam. The silicone considerably reduces the high sliding friction between cover and foam, making it much easier to fit the cover.
• Silicone spray is also widely used on bicycles and motorcycles. It is not ideal as a chain oil. Professionals often use it as a second layer after chain oil because it is very good at preventing new dirt from building up. Otherwise it is very versatile on bikes and is also available as a bike silicone spray specially optimised for bicycles.

How to use it correctly

Before using silicone spray, make sure the surface is dry, clean and free of grease. For dirty and oily parts, it's best to use our degreaser for pre-treatment. Shake the can well shortly before use so that the silicone is evenly distributed in the carrier solution. Then spray Ballistol silicone spray evenly from a distance of approx. 25 cm and leave to dry. If necessary, polish with a soft, clean cloth. To increase the effect, the process can be repeated.

Frequently asked questions

What is dry silicone spray?

This is a piece of misinformation that apparently persists on the internet. Silicone spray is not a dry lubricant. Dry lubricants are usually powdered solid lubricants such as graphite, PTFE (best known under the Teflon brand) or ceramics. There is no such thing as dry silicone spray. So if you are looking for a dry lubricant, the question is not silicone spray or Teflon spray, but: what needs to be lubricated?

Is silicone spray food-safe?

Silicone is taste-neutral, chemical-resistant and temperature-resistant. Chemically and physiologically it is inert to the human body, i.e. particularly unreactive. The human body has no way of metabolising the synthetic product silicone. According to current knowledge, silicone in its pure form is therefore not toxic to living beings. Whether silicone spray is also food-safe, however, is a legal question, because an approval is required for such a designation. Such an approval is very complex and expensive. That's why sprays for the "food" application area are specially formulated and put through the approval process. Ballistol silicone oil does not have this approval because the special product Ballistol H1 food-grade oil already covers this area.

Silicone spray as a contact spray?

Silicone spray is not suitable as a contact spray. Here too, misinformation persists on the internet. It insulates and is water-repellent. Contact spray is primarily a cleaner and ensures that there is no insulation between two components so that current can flow freely. Silicone does the opposite. The misinformation is probably based on the fact that the spray is good for insulating electrical components and protecting them from moisture.

Why do products so often highlight the property "silicone-free"?

As described above, silicone is an excellent release agent and prevents things from sticking to a surface. However, this is exactly the property that is undesirable in various coating jobs. Especially when painting, e.g. car bodies in a spray booth, there must be no silicone residues on the surface. That's why paint shops, for example, avoid using silicone-containing products for certain jobs. Even a silicone-containing hand cream used by a painter before work can cause the paint job to fail. For this reason, silicone removers are among the most important products for work preparation in paint shops. Ballistol silicone spray is very easy and effective to use and delivers the desired effects quickly and for a long time. This makes it a universal care product that can be used in many ways, from polishing to protecting surfaces. However, if you want to coat surfaces with other products such as paints, a release agent like silicone must be removed first.

Silicone spray 400 ml or 200 ml, or silicone oil?

When do you use the dropper bottle with liquid silicone oil, and when is the spray the better choice? The answer is quite simple: whenever you need to oil precisely or pinpoint a spot, liquid silicone oil is the best choice. If you want to apply the silicone evenly over a larger area, use the spray.

Where can I buy silicone spray?

Ballistol silicone spray is known as a high-quality product made in Germany and can be bought fresh every day here in the brand shop or in the

factory outlet. Try it for yourself.

The most important properties at a glance:

Silicone spray:

• is a slip agent, lubricant, release agent, insulating agent and care product
• provides mineral oil free, clean lubrication
• prevents rubber seals on car doors, chest freezers etc. from freezing
• keeps rubber flexible
• prevents rubber and plastics from drying out and becoming brittle
• reduces wear and dampens noise, e.g. on treadmills
• is suitable for sealing and waterproofing ignition systems
• is suitable for lubricating ski bindings, Bowden cables and much more
• makes wooden drawers glide perfectly
• lubricates cylinder locks with a thin lubricating film that never gums up
• waterproofs faux leather, tarpaulins, tents, latex etc.
• lubricates, cares for and protects all materials
• leaves no greasy film and does not stick
• protects against moisture, corrosion, rust and oxidation
• is suitable for indoor and outdoor use
• eliminates squeaks and creaks
• acts as an insulating spray and prevents leakage currents
• is water-repellent, dust-repellent and antistatic
• creates a stable lubricating film from -50 °C to +200 °C
• restores the look of weathered plastics and rubber

Disadvantages of silicone spray

Silicone is difficult to remove. Silicones are resistant to almost all solvents. To remove silicones completely from surfaces for technical purposes, you absolutely need a proper silicone remover. None of the home remedies recommended on the internet are suitable for professional purposes. Problems arise, for example, when surfaces coated with silicone need to be painted, coated or glued.

Silicone spreads in the spray mist. A spray cannot be controlled precisely. If you want to apply the silicone to a specific spot or a limited area rather than a larger surface, liquid silicone oil is the better choice.

Silicone spray alternatives

Silicone spray actually is the alternative – namely to all lubricants based on mineral oils. If you are still looking for other alternatives that are based neither on mineral oil nor on silicone, that leaves dry lubricants based on PTFE, graphite or ceramic particles. Combinations of liquid lubricants with dry lubricants are also an option.

Here you will find suitable alternatives to silicone spray:

• PTFE spray
• Copper graphite spray
• GunCer ceramic oil
• Multi workshop oil

Conclusion

Thanks to its properties, silicone spray is an almost universally applicable alternative to mineral oil based lubricants and care products. As silicone attacks neither plastic nor rubber, it is widely used for these materials. It is also taste-neutral, odourless, chemical-resistant and temperature-resistant, which makes it incredibly versatile.

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