I apologize for not reading the entire thread before posting my opinion, but, what the heck. My experience in an instrument shop when I was in school taught me about "White Lubriplate". The color was more important than the texture or lubricating properties. In my opinion, anything works on a hinge pin as long as it's slippery, but the whiteness or lack of whiteness tells us when it's time to blow it all out and start over, and I don't mean wiping with a finger on a rag. I mean blowing it all out with brake cleaner and relubricating. Particles show up in white lubriplate and almost as well, but not quite as well, in STOS. However, these thick concoctions do not respond well to a cleaning rag in hidden crevices, so I have given up on them and now use only oil. Oil is much easier to clean out with rags and Q-tips and doesn't build up in corners and crevices. However, as Capt Curl suggests, I still have a jar of grease in each of my trunk cases, just in case. They just look kind of neat. Full oil bottles in trunk cases is a big no no once you have seen one leak.
