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Hey guys, how many of you have ever seen a gun oil refinery? Me neither, because there are no such things. When you are spending big$$$ for a 4 oz bottle of oil you are falling for the infamous "snake oil con" all over again!
Mobile One is the best you can buy and is a synthetic formulation to not pick up and hold carbon. That's why it works so well in automobile engines which is a very high carbon environment. Oil never wears out it only get dirty!
Grease is just oil with wax or paraffin added it to it to make it thicker so it stay put.
When you clean a gun barrel you are just putting a very thin oil in it, letting stay in there a while and then wiping it out with a patch after the oil has soaked up the loose carbon in the barrel. That's that black stuff you see on a dirty patch. Soap and water will do the same thing and that was how firearms were cleaned in the old days and even up to the use of corrosive primer for cartridge ammunition used in early 1911 pistols during WWI.
It is a proven fact that oil reduces friction and that's all it does, but it collects dirt in the process. In Vietnam we used diesel fuel and gasoline to clean our weapons and motor oil on the 1911 junk and wheel bearing grease on the bolt carrier groups of the M-16 rifles.
Gaston Glock discovered that nickel and polymer have a natural lubricity when rubbed against each other. The only problem was that nickel can not adhere to steel. Smith & Wesson discovered that if you coated steel with copper that nickel will adhere to the copper. That's why Glock internals are copper and then nickel plated. This makes the internal self lubricating. S&W even got sued when they copied this process with the Sigma Series.
I am sure just about everybody has smelled Hopps # 9. That distinctive smell is to cover up and mask the smell of kerosene and ammonia in the formulation. Here's the kicker, ammonia eats and destroys copper! So you never want to use Hopps on a Glock or a nickel plated gun! Just a little experience I have learned in my 70 plus years on this planet!
Mobile One is the best you can buy and is a synthetic formulation to not pick up and hold carbon. That's why it works so well in automobile engines which is a very high carbon environment. Oil never wears out it only get dirty!
Grease is just oil with wax or paraffin added it to it to make it thicker so it stay put.
When you clean a gun barrel you are just putting a very thin oil in it, letting stay in there a while and then wiping it out with a patch after the oil has soaked up the loose carbon in the barrel. That's that black stuff you see on a dirty patch. Soap and water will do the same thing and that was how firearms were cleaned in the old days and even up to the use of corrosive primer for cartridge ammunition used in early 1911 pistols during WWI.
It is a proven fact that oil reduces friction and that's all it does, but it collects dirt in the process. In Vietnam we used diesel fuel and gasoline to clean our weapons and motor oil on the 1911 junk and wheel bearing grease on the bolt carrier groups of the M-16 rifles.
Gaston Glock discovered that nickel and polymer have a natural lubricity when rubbed against each other. The only problem was that nickel can not adhere to steel. Smith & Wesson discovered that if you coated steel with copper that nickel will adhere to the copper. That's why Glock internals are copper and then nickel plated. This makes the internal self lubricating. S&W even got sued when they copied this process with the Sigma Series.
I am sure just about everybody has smelled Hopps # 9. That distinctive smell is to cover up and mask the smell of kerosene and ammonia in the formulation. Here's the kicker, ammonia eats and destroys copper! So you never want to use Hopps on a Glock or a nickel plated gun! Just a little experience I have learned in my 70 plus years on this planet!
Try Marvel Mystery Oil, my wife loves the smell of it 
