Lubricants....

[Dennis]

WD-40: WD-40 was never meant to be a lubricant - it was designed as a moisture displacer. It's far too light for any load protection, has incredibly poor corrosion resistance, contains zero boundary lubricants, and rapidly oxidizes to form a sickly yellow varnish (hint: this is not good for delicate internal lockwork.) There are those who will defend this stuff vehemently, but then again you can still find people who think smokeless powder is a passing fad. Just. Don't.

Read the above two suggested articles, interesting, just one part listed above!

I love my guns and want the best for them!

[243LPR]

When I was in the USAF, every year after qualifying all we used to clean the M-16 was Break Free CLP. Don't know if that was a local decision or service wide. They had to be spotless before they would let you leave!

[RHM]

When I was in the USAF, every year after qualifying all we used to clean the M-16 was Break Free CLP. Don't know if that was a local decision or service wide. They had to be spotless before they would let you leave!


Same in the Marines. CLP cleans and lubes, but there are much better lubricants out there.

[243LPR]

I agree. I don't use it on my own stuff. :D

[1jonzmith]

I highly recommend reading this article: http://www.grantcunningham.com/lubricants101.html It changed my perspective on what I have used over the past 20+ years.

I bought Lubriplate 105 from Brownell's (http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=6524/Product/LUBRIPLATE). It's not "SFL" NLGI#0, but it is the same brand's NLGI#0 in another line.


RHM for the WIN

This is the most authoritative work on GUN LUBES I have ever read and I am 70. And, it verifies a lot of what I had concluded and even some things I have verified myself through experimentation. Lubriplate is simply a phenomenal product. Their "chain and cable lube" protected my winch cable for 3 years with one application and that winch sat on my front bumper of a "daily driver" In Oregon's central valley...Eugene. At the third year mark I noted tiny rust spots and re-lubed the 5 year old cable.Any product made by those guys should give you pause.

[groaner71]

I highly recommend reading this article: http://www.grantcunningham.com/lubricants101.html It changed my perspective on what I have used over the past 20+ years.

I bought Lubriplate 105 from Brownell's (http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=6524/Product/LUBRIPLATE). It's not "SFL" NLGI#0, but it is the same brand's NLGI#0 in another line.


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Great article. Takes lots of the voodoo out of gun maintenance.