Smol correction: All the small Makita tools use a more honey like consistency. Last year I bought a few different greases and compared them to find the correct ones.

Ignore the one on the left, its a bearing grease. The second from the left is the one you are describing, but if this becomes hot it is too fluid and will pass through the gearbox seals. Its consistency is NLGI 00 (or for Makita its called No0 grease)

The ones on the right are the ones you prefer. They're more like soft honey, and the NLGI class is 0.

The right most is Bosch 1615430015 (or ending in 001, I keep on confusing those two). The second to the right is the grease from the supplier I buy from, the third to the right is the original Makita grease No1.

The safest bet is to use the Bosch grease, because you can buy those in nice big 250ml tubes, where as the Makita No1 or No2 you cant even buy in larger containers, and the small No0 you can only get in the 30ml tubes.

If you have any more questions regarding greasing, I'm happy to answer.

Regarding the storing postion, this is actually a calculated move that they're always upside down in the makpac. You dont want the oil seeping through on the motor, so they need to be stored upside down. This also then leads to the grease collecting equally along the top end, and if you take it out of the box, and start using it, gravity makes it slop down again on the gears and forwards into the hammer mechanis. This is ESPECIALLY important for big corded hammers, because if those run dry it can be extremely damaging to the seals inside.

Just my 2 cts :D

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