WET OR DRY

[frameman]

I'm new to this forum and the same to the P-64.
I found out the hard way that my Glock 23 likes to run "Dry" I have run it with grease and when it's cold outside ,around freezing, it gets mad and the slide doesn't cycle properly so I run it without lube.
Is the P-64 supposed to be lubed and if so where and with what?
Thanks in advance

[Curly1]

I put a little grease on contact parts where the slide and frame interact and oil on any rotating or moving parts like springs.

A very light coating of Remoil on the barrel and frame.

[frameman]

I thought as much. I assume light grease on the slide channels. This pistol was plenty wet when I purchased it.
Thanks for the reply.

[papabear]

Welcome aboard frameman, for all year lubing I use synthetic products for all my guns, and as mentioned the key here is a "light coating" of lube. I use either EEZOX or ROYAL PURPLE both are synthetic and work great all year round.

[frameman]

I hadn't thought of the synthetic lube, it sounds like an excellent idea.
Papabear, I noticed your from Madisonville KY.
I served in Vietnam with a guy named Carneal. I don't know how big your town is but maybe you know someone with that last name.

[papabear]

I know of some Carneal's in my area but none of them that I know served in Vietnam that I'm aware of, I had a HS classmate named John Clayton two years younger than me that served in Nam, but not sure where he is today, haven't heard from him for several years now, I think he was there in late '69 or '70, I was there in '68 & '69.

[frameman]

68 & 69 were the same years for me as well. I served with 2nd battalion 9th Marine regiment. 2/9.
I-Corp area.

[whitelightning777]

I cleaned mine spotless once I got it out of the box. I run just a very light touch of CLP soaked into a bore snake down the barrel + the usual light coating of CLP oil on the slide etc.

The usual rule with semiautomatic guns is that if it slides, oil it. If it rotates, grease it. Obviously, there is no need for grease in a blowback pistol. On my AKs, both my 8mm M76 and my SA-93, I follow this rule. My SA-93 has never jammed. The century built M76 has had some other issues, namely the magazine riding to low and weak magazine springs to be exact.

I have never had any lubrication related failures. My Beretta PX4 full size type C gets grease on the barrel nub, which rotates like a rifle bolt, and oil elsewhere. Also, zero failures.

[Curly1]

The rule I am familiar is if it slides grease it and if it rotates oil it.