Part of my IBM career was field engineering service. Many of the machines used very high speed cams. Some were 6″ long and 1″ in diameter. In some cases they had 12 followers riding on the cam.
Were talking about machine run time of nearly 24-7. All of these cams were wicked. All of these cams ran with grease impregnated wicks. For me, I cut a wick, then I take a medium grease and work it
into the felt for several minutes followed by lightly wiping any surface grease off.
just my experience and my way of doing it.
