Lubrication

[normsutton]

RB

I use powdered graphite mix with oil to make into a grease works good on certain parts of guns
works real well on SKS's trigger groups , I also use it on the P-64 safety's , you can get it in a spay can it call lock -ease graphite lock fluid
I think there use to be a product called gun slick it came in a small tube that looks like black grease it was made the same way



NORM

[himmel]

wow--learn something new every day around here!

[himmel]

I dumped mine in a #3 washtub of coal oil fer a week then warshed it out n the crick, greased the rails w/Butch wax n sprayed 'er down w/Marvel Mystery Oil...........................

Marvel mystery Oil--now there's an idea... BTW, where do you still get Butch Wax???

[bzinggg]

My comment against using graphite was in reference to dry graphite alone, which is inadequate for a high speed application like slide rails. It gets your hands and clothes dirty and black to boot. Don't know about the custom mix because I haven't needed to use one.
I would defer to Norm there.

As far as nickster's reccommendation to wash it out in the crick, I would not be able to bring myself to do that. If I accidentally dropped one of my pistols into water, I'd remove the grips and heat it in the oven at 180 degrees for an hour before relubing properly. Even though Marvel Mystery oil displaces moisture, and the fact that it had been soaking in coal oil for a while would make it less likely to allow water to affect any surface, moisture could hide in a number of places and eventually rust would form. Oil tanks that have contained oil for years, nearly always fail at the bottom where water in small amounts collects from temperature change induced condensation and separation of water from oil that is stored there, and eats away the ferrous metal causing the tank to fail. So oil soaking does not prevent corrosion if water is present on iron or steel.

[nicksterdemus]

"where do you still get Butch Wax??? " I still have half a can from the 50's-60's era. When ya run w/flattop ya know people that know people. When things get tight I just drop by Floyd's barbershop n pick up a new tin..................................

[papabear]

+1 nick...... ;D.....I get mine at Sandy's