Yep, I went back and studied your posts on the E-yellow and purple a couple of days ago. We'll see what it does in a few days/weeks, but one thing about the Mobil 1 grease and waxes I've played with over the course of this thread, they are what they're going to be after about 24 hrs unless you add some other soap thickeners. That Al stearate isn't compatible with any of the lithium thickeners technically, so it definetely modifies the lithium's ability to hold oil, and also how the whole concoction behaves under pressure, could be bad or good depending on the other ingredients. What you have seem to be working after a fashion, but I think you'll be able to skip a whole lot of the heat/cool/add/boil-off/mix/heat/cool mumbo-jumbo if you can simply add more of the right thickener to your grease.
I just hope that adding thickener has the same effect as removing oil from the grease through osmosis has, should be the same thing except the percentage of "additive package" to the original grease will be reduced.
Gear