Oil vs grease

This talk of TW25B is fine and dandy, but where could one buy this in Canada? In my experience, shipping such lubricants across the border is difficult or impossible.

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I'm with USP and use Kluber food grade synthetic grease. I just pinch a little from work occasionly. A little grease goes a long way.
 
If your life is depending on the gun working....don't use grease like products and go easy on the oil! Think surplus guns covered in grease...they don't go click! Grease slows down the spring and firing pin and doesn't hit the primer hard enough when you want it to. Grease and oil are for storage. i was taught to use a "dry" firearm with a little oil....nothing for dirt etc to cling on.
 
Grease!

Oil doesn't stay.

I use the Swiss Weapons grease. I got a tub for $25 a while back. It'll last a lifetime. Never had any problems.
 
can14 said:
If your life is depending on the gun working....don't use grease like products and go easy on the oil! Think surplus guns covered in grease...they don't go click! Grease slows down the spring and firing pin and doesn't hit the primer hard enough when you want it to. Grease and oil are for storage. i was taught to use a "dry" firearm with a little oil....nothing for dirt etc to cling on.
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I would trust my well greased firearms over a dry one anyway.
 
I use a clear Synthetic great. You can find the tube at Cdn Tire under the Ultrex brand now.

I feel grease is better then oil for the bolt lugs.

A smear goes a long way, no drips, no runs, makes my norc happy happy,.

seems to keep fouling suspended really well too.

Jerry
 
I run white lithium grease in my CZ 858 (hope the mention of a Red Rifle is permitted here!!), and I find it works noticeably better than oil. It is worth noting here that the gun is stripped and thoroughly cleaned after each shooting session due to the use of corrosive primed surplus ammo, so the buildup of dirt/crud/fouling is not really an issue.
 
heckler said:
Would you use gun grease on your wheel bearings?All I was saying is there are lubes specifically designed for a specific purpose
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You know I hear people say the same thing about motorcycle oils. Yet AMSOIL's website clearly says that they only made their bike oils because people were conditioned to not use regular engine oil in their bikes. (The non high efficancy stuff) They go on to say both oils are ok to use in bikes with a wet clutch.

How is this relevent?

Well marketing has convinced people there is only one way to do things.

Think about a wheel bearing it gets hot and needs to be protected as the machined surfaces need to stay in good condition. How is this realy differnt from a firearm. Well a firearm may put out some carbon that the wheel bearing grease may not have an addative to deal with. So if a tub of wheel bearing grease is 1/4 the price of gun grease you could grease the gun 4 times as much.

I would be willing to bet that the gun getting fresh grease more often will survive longer, even if its not the "proper" grease.

Me personally I like to use engine assembly lithium grease. It has to deal with pretty much the same service, carbon, high temp, etc and additionally is designed to be exposed to solvents such as gasoline.

Its kinda like the oil company that bought a pump from another company and got told they had to use only the oil provided by the pump company (which was outragously priced). Eventually the purchasing guy at the oil company got on the good side of one of the sales guys at the pump company. They had simply taken an oil produced by that oil company and put it in new jugs and relabled it, they then sold it back to the oil company for several times the price they had bought it for.

This story is definatly true, as I may have been working for one of the companies involved.


Just make sure whatever oil/grease you use is designed for similar service and will not react with the materials of your gun OR anything that will come in contact with the oil.
 
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