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I was looking for a new, cheaper gun grease than Tetra Grease, which I like but don't like paying for. I prefer to grease the wear spots on my autos, rather than oil, being careful to keep any grease away from parts which should be completely dry, like the firing pin and the trigger safety plunger. Ya don't want any stiction with those!
I grabbed an 11oz spray can of "Liquid Wrench Chain Lube" ($4.99) from the auto section of Fred Meyer because it contained Moly and claimed to be a penetrating liquid which evaporated into grease, designed for motorcycle chains and other tight parts. Basically, it is a grease that spreads itself out into a very thin, slightly sticky layer. Darned if it did not do exactly that!
I have a fine semi-old auto that had an experimental black finish which unfortunately does wear off to the bare steel in places of friction, inside and outside, not like the modern Tenifer or Melanite finishes used today. This makes it easy to see and understand where the gun rubs itself raw, and why I like to grease it. I squirted a bit of the chain lube into a bottle cap, and spread the liquid thinly with a q-tip exactly where I wanted it, any place that I saw wear. No bad odor or color. It flowed easily and did seem to spread willingly. After ten minutes it shrunk down to a very thin and tenacious layer of slippery grease---perfect! I reassembled the gun and racked the slide twenty times, and there was no excess ooze anywhere.
I liked the inside results so well that I coated the whole exterior, minus the grips, because rust-proofing this gun is a serious issue. Half a dozen paper towels later I had scrubbed off all obvious traces of the evaporated grease, yet the black finish was dulled a bit by an exceedingly thin layer of persistant grease---perfect! It was tempting to treat the barrel bore just to get some Moly embedded in the rifling, but it would have taken fifty patches to get the stuff out of the bore. It would be great for long-term storage however; better than cosmoline I presume. This seems to be a great gun grease, and it is sure inexpensive.........................elsullo
I grabbed an 11oz spray can of "Liquid Wrench Chain Lube" ($4.99) from the auto section of Fred Meyer because it contained Moly and claimed to be a penetrating liquid which evaporated into grease, designed for motorcycle chains and other tight parts. Basically, it is a grease that spreads itself out into a very thin, slightly sticky layer. Darned if it did not do exactly that!
I have a fine semi-old auto that had an experimental black finish which unfortunately does wear off to the bare steel in places of friction, inside and outside, not like the modern Tenifer or Melanite finishes used today. This makes it easy to see and understand where the gun rubs itself raw, and why I like to grease it. I squirted a bit of the chain lube into a bottle cap, and spread the liquid thinly with a q-tip exactly where I wanted it, any place that I saw wear. No bad odor or color. It flowed easily and did seem to spread willingly. After ten minutes it shrunk down to a very thin and tenacious layer of slippery grease---perfect! I reassembled the gun and racked the slide twenty times, and there was no excess ooze anywhere.
I liked the inside results so well that I coated the whole exterior, minus the grips, because rust-proofing this gun is a serious issue. Half a dozen paper towels later I had scrubbed off all obvious traces of the evaporated grease, yet the black finish was dulled a bit by an exceedingly thin layer of persistant grease---perfect! It was tempting to treat the barrel bore just to get some Moly embedded in the rifling, but it would have taken fifty patches to get the stuff out of the bore. It would be great for long-term storage however; better than cosmoline I presume. This seems to be a great gun grease, and it is sure inexpensive.........................elsullo
