Lubricants

One product I’ve heard about lately is Clenzoil. I’ve never tried it but have heard it is a pretty good CLP. At this point I’ve got so many different lubricants they require their own shelf! Lol!!
 
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Is it my eyes, or do both of those bottles say 1 oz?
 
I use low viscosity synthetic oil. It gets 30 and 40 below around here.

#1 I am not spending anytime outside hunting or much else at that temperature
#2 I am not going target shooting at that temperature
#3 Criminals are not out wandering around at -20
#4 If I go out in it and carry a gun will be in a pocket, my truck or side by side with the heater on. I no longer walk around in it
#5 I will not leave my guns outside at minus temps.
#6 I hunt with bolt actions, no oil on firing pin touch mech bolt assy and rails with oily fingers about the same with revolver internals
#7 when a young idiot that wandered around on foot hunting in the cold my rifle always functioned fine
 
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chief38 said:
One product I’ve heard about lately is Clenzoil. I’ve never tried it but have heard it is a pretty good CLP. At this point I’ve got so many different lubricants they require their own shelf! Lol!!
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Warning ... before you buy a great big bottle (like I did) ...

Smell it ... give it a good sniff test ( which I didn't do)...

To my nose it has a strange ... off-putting ( Wonkey) smell !

It doesn't bother some people but to me ... it's a strange smell I don't like ... I've cleaned one revolver with it and my wife wouldn't let us in the bedroom ( she has a nose a Bloodhound would be envious of ... I had to shower first ) the revolver stayed in the reloading / gun cleaning room for two weeks ...untill the wonkey smell had faded from the revolver .

My Advice ... Smell it ... before you buy that Big Bottle .
Gary
 
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Some years ago I tested various oils for their rust prevention properties. Breakfree CLP came out on top. I left a plain soft steel nail that will start to show rust in a couple of hours in a bottle of water for two years that I had wiped with CLP. No rust in two years under water.
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Insufficient dissolved oxygen in the water will do that. No O2 ... no rust.
 
I’ve used lubit8 on the internals of my firearms. Mostly because I could commandeer it from work. It’s a synthetic light machine oil rated from -60 to +500f.in a copier it will cause a one way clutch bearing to spin both ways.
 

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gwpercle said:
Warning ... before you buy a great big bottle (like I did) ...

Smell it ... give it a good sniff test ( which I didn't do)...

To my nose it has a strange ... off-putting ( Wonkey) smell !

It doesn't bother some people but to me ... it's a strange smell I don't like ... I've cleaned one revolver with it and my wife wouldn't let us in the bedroom ( she has a nose a Bloodhound would be envious of ... I had to shower first ) the revolver stayed in the reloading / gun cleaning room for two weeks ...untill the wonkey smell had faded from the revolver .

My Advice ... Smell it ... before you buy that Big Bottle .
Gary
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Gary,
THANK YOU for the heads up!!!

I for one, am VERY VERY sensitive to smells! I can tell which one of my Wife's friends was in the house even after they leave. I can smell what my Wife is making for dinner as soon as I open the front door. I will NOT let her cook fish inside the house, I will cook it on the BBQ outdoors where at least it is vented with a huge hood and vent motor.

When I was a kid, I could smell my Dad cleaning his guns with Hoppes 9 before I landed on our property! Sometimes my olfactory sense is a blessing and other times a curse.

One product I actually bought and never actually tried (gave it away ten minutes after opening the can) was Balistol! I am not disputing it works well, BUT NOT IN MY HOUSE! :D It absolutely reeks and I can't understand how anyone can be in the same room with it. :confused:

Smell is important to me as I use gun products every few days. A stinky one (no mater how well it works) gets pitched or gifted. The ONLY exception is Kroil. I absolutely hate the smell and on the rare occasion I use it, it has to be outdoors. Seems to work OK though. Wish it smelled better!
 
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Gary,
THANK YOU for the heads up!!!

I for one, am VERY VERY sensitive to smells! I can tell which one of my Wife's friends was in the house even after they leave. I can smell what my Wife is making for dinner as soon as I open the front door. I will NOT let her cook fish inside the house, I will cook it on the BBQ outdoors where at least it is vented with a huge hood and vent motor.

When I was a kid, I could smell my Dad cleaning his guns with Hoppes 9 before I landed on our property! Sometimes my olfactory sense is a blessing and other times a curse.

One product I actually bought and never actually tried (gave it away ten minutes after opening the can) was Balistol! I am not disputing it works well, BUT NOT IN MY HOUSE! :D It absolutely reeks and I can't understand how anyone can be in the same room with it. :confused:

Smell is important to me as I use gun products every few days. A stinky one (no mater how well it works) gets pitched or gifted. The ONLY exception is Kroil. I absolutely hate the smell and on the rare occasion I use it, it has to be outdoors. Seems to work OK though. Wish it smelled better!
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I like Ballistol. I’ve used it on wood floors in my house, leather interior on my cars, and on all my guns.
 

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gwpercle said:
Warning ... before you buy a great big bottle (like I did) ...

Smell it ... give it a good sniff test ( which I didn't do)...

To my nose it has a strange ... off-putting ( Wonkey) smell !

It doesn't bother some people but to me ... it's a strange smell I don't like ... I've cleaned one revolver with it and my wife wouldn't let us in the bedroom ( she has a nose a Bloodhound would be envious of ... I had to shower first ) the revolver stayed in the reloading / gun cleaning room for two weeks ...untill the wonkey smell had faded from the revolver .

My Advice ... Smell it ... before you buy that Big Bottle .
Gary
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^^^ I agree 100%. Stinks worse than Balistol . Actually smells exactly like turpentine.
 
I generally use whatever I find on sale, but have been thinking about trying Radcolube CLP the next time I buy in bulk. Has anyone tried it? I'm thinking it should be on par with Breakfree CLP, but it's slightly cheaper.
 
Although I have never used it on guns, the one oil I have used for 53 years is Marvel Mystery Oil. Everything I have used it on has performed quite well and the bonus is I LOVE the smell! Why I never tried it in guns - I don't know. I'll have to look into that.
 
I think MMO is a lot like ATF but with a lot of solvents and detergent. Wouldn't hurt a revolver, wouldn't gum it up. I bet it would make some killer Eds red. I don't think it would be the best for semi auto rails.

I will stick with my synthetic motor oil. If it can handle 6000 miles or about 100 hours at close to 3000rpm for 100x60x3000=18,000,000 revolutions, I am pretty sure it will handle 1000 rounds or so of my cylinder, hammer and trigger.

When Jerry Miculek fired 12 rounds in 3 seconds his hammer and trigger were going 240 cycles per minute and his cylinder 40RPM.

I am usually more of a 6 cycles and 1 rpm guy

How many of you have seen a revolver where the yoke tube, the hammer, trigger, rebound slide or their pins were worn out?

Not what happens, cylinder notches and lock can get battered, ratchet teeth can get worn. Takes a whole lot of cycles to get the hole in the recoil shield for the center pin to be worn, because the hand working the ratchet puts a little side pressure on it. I couldn't afford that much lead, let alone powder and primers.
 
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chief38 said:
Gary,
THANK YOU for the heads up!!!

I for one, am VERY VERY sensitive to smells! I can tell which one of my Wife's friends was in the house even after they leave. I can smell what my Wife is making for dinner as soon as I open the front door. I will NOT let her cook fish inside the house, I will cook it on the BBQ outdoors where at least it is vented with a huge hood and vent motor.

When I was a kid, I could smell my Dad cleaning his guns with Hoppes 9 before I landed on our property! Sometimes my olfactory sense is a blessing and other times a curse.

One product I actually bought and never actually tried (gave it away ten minutes after opening the can) was Balistol! I am not disputing it works well, BUT NOT IN MY HOUSE! :D It absolutely reeks and I can't understand how anyone can be in the same room with it. :confused:

Smell is important to me as I use gun products every few days. A stinky one (no mater how well it works) gets pitched or gifted. The ONLY exception is Kroil. I absolutely hate the smell and on the rare occasion I use it, it has to be outdoors. Seems to work OK though. Wish it smelled better!
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You are very Welcome ... !

Two products that I have found have little or no smell
are the :
1.) Hoppe's Elite Gun Cleaner ... and
2.) Hoppe's Elite Gun Oil !

These two are marked ... Elite ... and are honestly low / no odor, it even says "scent free" on the Elite gun cleaner bottle .

I found these at wally-mart and my wife has voiced no objections ... that's saying a lot ... You need to give these two items a smell ... they might be just the ticket !

And as added bonus ... they work really well ... downside is they is expensive as all get-out , but what isn't these days .
They don't "stink" !

When I need a lot of cleaner...that doesn't smell bad to me ...
I mix up a gallon of Ed's Red Gun Cleaner ...$22.00 will get you a good solvent and it doesn't smell bad to me ...
Gary
 
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I live in E Texas, rarely gets very cold. I think we have seen sub zero two times in the 45 years we have lived here, -6 about 3 years ago was the record. I use Mobil 1 10w-30 in mine, works well and stays put.
 
A low viscosity oil isn't going to freeze your gun up at -30. My cars start without being plugged in at that temp. Just this winter I started mine in the morning at about -34 after it was -38 at 2am.

I know that at serious minus temps wheel bearing grease and gear oil turns to putty, and oil gets stiffer but if you gun doesn't operate at -30 it is far and away more apt to be frozen moisture than lube. You gun will act exactly like a bathroom mirror by the way. Humidity turns to frost when its cold, on your car window, your hood or your gun.
 
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