What consumables? (Grease, damper oil, diff oil etc?)

[Mr_M]

First post so a brief intro is in order I think....

Returning to rc cars after a very long layoff (let's put it this way - I remember the orignal Cat coming out ) and trying to find my way around again - a lot has changed! I've been lurking on here for quite a while and finally took the plunge and registered just before xmas.

Great site Jimmy (and all of you) - with heavy use of the search function I've been able to answer most of my questions but now I'm starting to get a couple of cars together (1/10th 4wd off road) I've got a few points where I'd appreciate some advice.... (please)

To kick things off, is there a general consensus as to which consumables are "best" ? I'm thinking here of things like ball diff grease, bearing grease, shock oil, diff oil (410R ) etc etc.

One I'm particularly interested in is threadlock - back in the day the Tamiya stuff used to be the dog's dangly's - it was about the only threadlock that was safe on plastic. Now I discover that you can't get it over here any more - is there a plastic safe alternative? For metal/metal threadlocking duty what stuff are you all using?

Thanks in advance