NHT3
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Same here
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Grease the slide?
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After experimenting with many things for lubrication and talking with avid shooters I use synthetic motor oil on all my guns including my AR. I don't use grease anymore. I do clean my firearms after each use and give my hunting firearms a thorough deep cleaning at seasons end. Sometimes Remoil is good for the quick lube.
I haven't read through all of the posts here but for a couple of pages, personally I wouldn't use grease. With oil if I were to pick up some grit I would hope that it could be expelled during use, with grease experience on other things shows that it is a magnet for grit and will become a wonderful slurry for grinding things down. I typically look back to my military experience too, where we never used grease that I recall, and in some cases were advised to run fairly dry because of dust contamination.
Semi autos are over 100 years old, if grease was a good thing to use don't you think somebody would have already thought of it and we'd all be using it without question????
Semi autos are over 100 years old, if grease was a good thing to use don't you think somebody would have already thought of it and we'd all be using it without question????
Wild Deuce
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I don't follow the logic in this comparison. I don't necessarily agree or disagree ... I just don't follow/see what you are trying to say.
So is arrogance.
I'm sorry but I have to agree with this one. A blanket assessment usually comes across pretty arrogant and rarely wins anyone over to your viewpoint. Assuming that everyone who uses grease is doing so because of laziness falls into that category. Before making a blanket assessment, we should all remember that "we don't know what we don't know." There might be reasons to use grease over oil that go beyond the lubrication properties of either.
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grease, depending on one's definition, will typically "stay put", vs. oil which "runs". while both have pros and cons, i prefer oil because it is (in my opinion) easier to remove excess. as Lancem commented, the excess of either is all the more that will attract lint, dust, dirt, and what have you.
NHT3
Grandmaster
No IMHO but as one of the previous posts stated, I don't know what I don't know
I think the above post is under the impression that someone that uses grease seldom cleans their guns thus the "lazy" remark.
As for not using grease until after 200 rds, Brian Enos's Slide Guide Lite is sold as a "break-in" lubricant for new semi-autos as well as any gun out there. I know many semi-auto (pistols and rifles) owners that swear by the stuff.
My semi-auto M1A insists (in the manual and from owners) that you use grease instead of oil on the slides, op rod and bolt rollers.
40calPUNISHER
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- Apr 23, 2008
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I use mud on my AKs and Glocks and oil on my revolvers.
Today is the first day I've been on since the night I posted that and WOW! I thank you all for the great amounts of feedback. Obviously this is one of the positions where there is a semblance of "to each there own," and while I do see the merits of running oil, and dry in conditions that have airborne particulate, I will probably stick to my light greasing the slides on my metal frames. I have discovered a plethora of recommended lubes, and have written many of them down. I will probably be conducting experiments over the next couple months... Perhaps even with a followup!
The new sig i bought a few years ago came with a small tube of TW25B in the case. I liked the stuff so much I now use it on every gun (yes even rifles, my 1187 seems to love it by the smoothness of the way it cycles) BUT not in every location. Sometimes oil is to thin. Sometimes grease is to thick. For Gods sake just keep it lubricated!
This! My Sig 1911-22 came with the TW25B, Good stuff!!
Jay
Gotta watch us old guys.....cause if you don't....
Interesting read, relative to this topic by a pretty well known gun shop.
Proper Lubrication of Your Auto Pistol and Revolver
Proper Lubrication of Your Auto Pistol and Revolver
I still use CLP but one of my favorites is STP oil treatment ,it doesnt run ,not too thick,never evaporates like most other 'gun' oils. For storage i apply on all surfaces, never to worry about rust [for years] ,i found its the only 'oil' I can use for no worries. When dirt sticking might be a problem in the field on internal/slide parts I use 'Gunszilla'dry lube,Its used much in the military sandboxes with nothing but praise.
I have used Hoppe's #9 followed by RIG for 50 years on all my firearms, inside and out, except for the bore (no grease there). Anything the last dry patch doesn't get out burns out with the first round. This continues to work for me from Alaska's cold to the jungles of S. America and S.E. Asia. Most of my guns look close to new, and if RIG ever "impeded function" I couldn't see it.
I put just a little gun oil on the head of a flat toothpick then run it in the slide grooves of my Glocks. Then I use a couple clean toothpicks and get as much as I can out. A micro-coat of oil is all the metal needs. This way it is lubed and doesn't have enough gunk in it to dirty up too fast.
