A good stainless steel grease I can buy at Canadian Tire

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I just bought a stainless steel AMT Backup. They need good lube on their rails to prevent galling. Can anyone please recommend a good grease for this that I could buy at Canadian Tire?

Thanks.

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I would use white lithium grease for stainless. It's what we use in industrial Control valve seats that are made of sst. They screw into 316 stainless valve bodies and are torqued to spec. Never galled. It would if you forgot the lithium grease though.
 
I would use white lithium grease for stainless. It's what we use in industrial Control valve seats that are made of sst. They screw into 316 stainless valve bodies and are torqued to spec. Never galled. It would if you forgot the lithium grease though.
 
Lucas "Red N tacky" #2, for around 10$ you'll have a lifetime supply.

A lot of people say (and it probably is true) it's the same as "Slide glide" sold on brian enos. I use it on the rails of my SIG, 1911, AR15 BCG, etc.. It stays in place, even at high temp. I just fill the rail with it, put the slide on it, remove the excess, rack the slide 10-20 times, wipe the excess again and you're good to go!
 
Very neat little gun. I remember seeing these in the 80s. Would be interested in hearing how it performs.
 
I use the Mystik tube. Again, enough for a lifetime. They seemed to only have the white lithium in a spray, too hard to control and get a small amount.
 
I use Molyslip grease on anything metal (steel, stainless steel, aluminum, etc.) that slides against metal. Never had a problem - and you can get it a Canadian Tire, or just about any hardware store.
 
X2 for red and tacky.Ive used it on my ruger 1911 and it works great.In colder weather I mix in some conventional gun oil to cut the viscosity a bit.One tube will last a life time.
 
geologist said:
I just bought a stainless steel AMT Backup. They need good lube on their rails to prevent galling. Can anyone please recommend a good grease for this that I could buy at Canadian Tire?

Thanks.
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TBH, I don't think it matters much what you use. Grease/lubes are near religious topics among shooters, car/motorcycle gearheads, bicyclists and probably other groups as well. And the truth is that most of them are more than adequate under anything less than incredibly extreme conditions. I am a mechanical engineer and have looked at lots of machinery failures over the years. I have never seen any lubricant fail in service. Things break because they get super hot from something going wrong or because there was no lubricant present, not because of an actual breakdown in the lubricant itself. When I say super hot I don't mean gun temps, I mean hot enough to show color in the parts and/or burn out heat treatment conditions.

I use a basic white grease from CT that I bought a small tub of for $5-$6 years ago. It will be several lifetimes worth of grease for me and my children. The keys are that the grease will take the temps you are seeing, doesn't wash away/melt/run under your operating conditions and that you use enough. The grease I use has never failed to stay stuck in place on any firearm I have used it, even when things are smoking hot. Unless you are in combat I can't imagine ever running a gun hard enough to cause a lube failure unless there simply wasn't any on the wear points. The only possible exception to this is the AR-15 platform. Grease doesn't work that well on them due to the nature of the wear points and how the bolt moves in the carrier, they like to run really wet and it is possible to get them very hot when shooting a long stage in 3 gun or other action shooting sports. Not full auto hot, but still scorching nonetheless. There I would be a bit more picky on the lube used. On my AR's I use grease to soak the phosphate coating on the carrier and CLP for the front of the carrier and bolt. So far no issues, but I also don't run them really hard for the most part.

If the basic white grease isn't high speed enough for you go to the lithium greases and you will never, ever have an issue.


Mark
 
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Rivalen said:
Lucas "Red N tacky" #2, for around 10$ you'll have a lifetime supply.


A lot of people say (and it probably is true) it's the same as "Slide glide" sold on brian enos. I use it on the rails of my SIG, 1911, AR15 BCG, etc.. It stays in place, even at high temp. I just fill the rail with it, put the slide on it, remove the excess, rack the slide 10-20 times, wipe the excess again and you're good to go!
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+1.
 
Red n' Tacky is pretty good for a whole bunch of things. I think I got mine at CT here in Mission. What about a judicious application of Permatex Anti-Seize?
 
+1. When I got my SR1911 Govt last year, I was using gun oil and still saw some wear I didn't like, so I found an tube of grease, which I bought from CT 10 years ago @ around $4, in my toolbox and I got great results and it has been 10 months now. The grease is rated for heavy duty machine use. I think as long as you bought a grease that is rated for high temperature and high pressure, you will be fine. Guns are just machines.


mmattockx said:
TBH, I don't think it matters much what you use. Grease/lubes are near religious topics among shooters, car/motorcycle gearheads, bicyclists and probably other groups as well. And the truth is that most of them are more than adequate under anything less than incredibly extreme conditions. I am a mechanical engineer and have looked at lots of machinery failures over the years. I have never seen any lubricant fail in service. Things break because they get super hot from something going wrong or because there was no lubricant present, not because of an actual breakdown in the lubricant itself. When I say super hot I don't mean gun temps, I mean hot enough to show color in the parts and/or burn out heat treatment conditions.

I use a basic white grease from CT that I bought a small tub of for $5-$6 years ago. It will be several lifetimes worth of grease for me and my children. The keys are that the grease will take the temps you are seeing, doesn't wash away/melt/run under your operating conditions and that you use enough. The grease I use has never failed to stay stuck in place on any firearm I have used it, even when things are smoking hot. Unless you are in combat I can't imagine ever running a gun hard enough to cause a lube failure unless there simply wasn't any on the wear points. The only possible exception to this is the AR-15 platform. Grease doesn't work that well on them due to the nature of the wear points and how the bolt moves in the carrier, they like to run really wet and it is possible to get them very hot when shooting a long stage in 3 gun or other action shooting sports. Not full auto hot, but still scorching nonetheless. There I would be a bit more picky on the lube used. On my AR's I use grease to soak the phosphate coating on the carrier and CLP for the front of the carrier and bolt. So far no issues, but I also don't run them really hard for the most part.

If the basic white grease isn't high speed enough for you go to the lithium greases and you will never, ever have an issue.


Mark
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