I have a Gavin (India) 4" rotary table which I have disassembled. It has been factory lube'd with some sort of heavy, sticky oil on the shafts and some rather nasty looking/smelling grease on the worm gear on the table. Would like to clean this all up and put some better stuff on.

Is that 'sticky' oil a Good Thing' - I'd like to just clean it all with mineral spirits and put Lithium White grease on the gears and use synthetic gear oil to lube the rest of it.

Ideas?

=A.