03-29-2008, 08:58 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New York
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| My Grab & Go bag contains a .22 caliber Boresnake for the AR-7 that lives in it. It won't wear out any time soon.I also have a small tube of grease for it. I think almost any kind of rendered grease would work as an exterior metal preservative. For a lubricant, though, I'm not sure how well animal fats would work. Has anyone tried using rendered fat as a gun lube (as opposed to greasing patches in blackpowder firearms) on a modern gun? If so, what kind of fat did you use and how did you prepare it? |
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04-17-2008, 02:02 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Kotzebue, Alaska
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| coatings and lube's I have used header paint and also Linseed oil as a lacquer finish that can be re-touched, 3 in one machine oil still works after all these years, |
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04-17-2008, 02:47 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Edmonds, WA
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| So, you want worst case scenario, huh? Well, let's say you have no cleaning supplies and it's the dead of winter in an area where everything is either underground or hibernating, so no animal fat. How do you keep your firearm from rusting?... It's been answered in this forum once before: Nose Grease. Yes, that's right, the grease from your nose (most easily found on the sides of your nostrils next to your cheekbone) works as a good lubricant for moving parts, if it's all ya got. The good Lord provides in mysterious ways, He does. To clean the barrel, boil water over a fire (if you can't make a fire, you're as good as dead anyways) and pour it down the barrel. Allow it to dry, which it will do rather quickly, as it was boiling water, and use a straight stick to push a piece of cloth (one you had with you or a small piece you tore from your clothing) with your nose grease on it down the bore. Then, do the same with any other necessary parts, such as the bolt and rails. Don't throw away that little piece of cloth, keep using it until it's pretty much useless and then tear off another small piece; should last you quite a while.
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04-17-2008, 09:49 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kansas City, MO
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| Just a car, Your posts are most interesting.... |
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04-17-2008, 11:28 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Little town in ARKANSAW!
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| If you shoot your gun every day it won't ever rust in the bore anyways.
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04-17-2008, 11:33 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Arkansas
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| I can't beleive no one here has thought about automobiles as a source for oil and grease to lube your guns. |
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04-17-2008, 11:40 AM
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04-17-2008, 12:07 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Arkansas
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| Wouldn't you think there would be plenty of them parked and abandon. I wonder if old stale gas would clean up a barrel ? |
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04-17-2008, 12:10 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Little town in ARKANSAW!
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04-17-2008, 04:19 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Colorado
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| Synthetic motor oil works well. For that matter, in your scenario, any motor oil would work just fine & you should always be able to find a dipstick somewhere, even if it's frm an abandoned vehicle. |
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05-07-2008, 02:51 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: FLORIDA
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| I got a couple gallons of WD-40, |
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