BALLISTOL - What Is It? ..

 You want to control and maintain your guns?

C&Rsenal have an extensive collection of great firearms related videos on YouTube - When you watch these, Othais plugs sponsors  BALLISTOL "miracle oil" and their range of lubricants & cleaners -  because it IS useful stuff. - THIS made me curious as I already discovered than many expensive CLP 'Gun Oils' are just fancy cans of perfumed ordinary kitchen Canola VEGETABLE OIL.

'Canola' is vegetable RAPE SEED OIL that was used as a lubricant for steam driven marine engines. They wanted to keep on selling it profitably after the war so they made it into "food" for the peasants.

So, what is 'BALLISTOL' ? - They started making it back in 1904 in Germany as a general purpose oil that could be used BOTH for treating skin wounds in the trenches and for oiling guns.

"A little Dab will do ya" or "Splash it all over" ?

- There is a manufactured petroleum distillate product LIQUID PARAFFIN that used to be widely downed by the spoonful as a laxative - sold to mums with young children having hard poo stools from being fed a crap modern western diet. - EAT YOUR GREENS.

- Don't confuse LIQUID PARAFFIN with KEROSENE that we British call "paraffin".

BALLISTOL is Liquid Paraffin with some added detergents* Potasium Oleate and Ammonium Oleate plus a little alcohol to help blend it all in. Full Stop. 

The containers cost more than the contents.

Those detergents are great because as well as helping to CLEAN ... they are Alkaline which means that they help neutralise ACIDS resulting from firing gunpowder antique propellant.

BRILLIANT STUFF that works - 

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* Some folk use Ballistol as a patch lubricant ... What also "tickled my fancy" here is some wise persons use diluted Dish Washing Detergent as a Black Powder PATCH lubricant - THIS ALSO WORKS.  50:50 with Water. - Link to a great Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnpUtxsIYb8

- The secret to riches ... find something that does something and Market It - make it your own pathway to paradise. - Ideally mix it with WATER then sell it.

So what would happen if you bought a wee bottle of liquid paraffin from the chemists - added a big squirt of washing-up liquid and a splash of the alcohol of your choice?? - Shake it up with a bit of tap water if you fancy and what have you got? (BALLISTOOL?) - Just saying eh.

GUN OIL or Canola Oil??? ... Link:

https://flicense.blogspot.com/2020/03/gun-lube-or-canola-oil.html

Marty K.