Planet EARTH is a busy sort of place with lots of people coming & going all the time .. Our NZ Police Commissioner Costerlot has just resigned. - The PM's Senior Press Secretary has also resigned ..
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Irreplaceable?
Lots of stuff we are sold is presented to seem wonderfully pleasing - when in fact - it is exactly the same stuff we've already got in the kitchen at a quarter of the price.
WE pay for the extra costs of that lying advertising every time we BUY that item.
Now I fully 'get' that referring people to my old copy is a bit of a cheat - but the facts are FACTS ..
- Firing guns does make them Gritty and DIRTY with residues that impede proper function and can be CORROSIVE - so we have to clean and lubricate them.
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Fact 1/- HOT WATER poured over the mechanism and down the barrels CLEANS & REMOVES most of the crap .. it leaves the metal hot and this quickly dries any water.
- if you use some dish washing liquid in that water and scrub it around, that will be even BETTER.
Then - ANY lubricant oils and light grease applied to a clean gun will help prevent corrosion while smoothing the gun's function.
- You don't need high temperature resistance or miracle "advanced" additives. - CANOLA OIL from the grocery department is very good for lubrication ..
GUN LUBE OR CANOLA OIL .. Link:
https://flicense.blogspot.com/2020/03/gun-lube-or-canola-oil.html
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- Next thing is BALLISTOL .. It is a useful, multi-purpose, fluid to use on firearms. - But it smells odd and the containers it comes in, cost more than the product inside. - BALLISTOL is a mix of medical Liquid Paraffin - detergent - alcohol, - and water. Water comes out of pipes FREE.
WHAT IS BALLISTOL? Link:
The "good" stuff you buy can be tested and certainly works - but do you really want to give your hard earned money to Business Corporations who pay psychologists to influence & bend your mind?
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These CORPORATIONS also donate money (that WE have given them) to political leaders to influence the policies and taxes imposed on us as citizen workers.
That's Life eh
Marty K.
MMMM... so true. In fact for guns fired with black powder, oily substances actually trap that very corrosive residue on the gun. All BP fouling is water soluble, so hot soapy water will get it squeaky clean in no time. I did know a guy that used to remove the grips from his BP pistols and pop them in the dishwasher. They came out very clean, although I cannot attest to the state of his marriage afterwards!
ReplyDeleteBack in the days of the old mercury fulminate primers in milsurp 303 ammo it was S.O.P. to pour a kettle of boiling water through the barrel at the end of the day. Once dry and while still warm, an oily patch through the bore and 'Robert's your avuncular relative", all done.
We used Young's '303' oil mostly for lubrication, and it's still sold and is water soluble like the old stuff but it's NOT the same. Smells quite different for one thing, and that's not imagination as I still have one of the old glass bottles of it from the 60s.
Judicious use of grease is worth doing too, especially for black powder arms. Packing the action of a pistol or rifle with a good grease means that you don't have to completely disassemble the gun half so often. The grease sticks to the unseen bits and keep the residue mostly off the metal. A good "clingy' grease is best but any sort of automotive grease will work well. The clingy stuff I use in some applications is a bit weird. If you have experience of chain bar oil for a chainsaw and how it 'strings' when you dip you finger in a take it out quickly, it's similar to that and is actually made to prevent 'galling' in stainless steel firearms, which is where I first used it. It's quite expensive, but a little goes a long way.... it's called "Pro Gold" if anyone is interested.
Having said all that, any old oil will work and grease from the garage is fine. One thing about some vegetable oils though, they do dry out and go sticky after some time as they oxidise in the air a bit. Mineral oils mostly won't do that, so are better for storage really.
So yes, most of the money we spend on special products to make our guns slippery and not covered in rust really are more of a marketing exercise that any notable difference from ordinary cheaper stuff.
Naw the guy that cleaned his BP gun in the dishwasher didn't have to worry about a wife , he was single to start with .
DeleteMwahahahaha! Probably right! It was a Kiwi too..... and I believe he was married at the time. His present marital status is unknown to me; his wife may not have been as understanding as, perhaps I might be for instance... :-)
DeleteOrl Koreck Kathryn
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