Favorite lube for the arbor?

Ballistol all around and bore butter on the arbor for me.

45 Dragoon said it all! The Mobile 1 grease I use; from talking with him, is just as he describes. You fill the frame with Mobile 1 and nothing can go where the grease is, simple physics. I only have to clean the cylinder and the bore after a full afternoon of shooting-many many rounds and no fouling whatsoever. Everything in this world comes down to Math & Physics
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!!!!!

troy fairweather said:

This is why I hope to shoot a bear this year.

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After all I went through chasing this bear through the brush, (yeah...I gut shot it) skinning, working the hide (still working it) and rendering the fat, and everything else involved, I'd not sell my grease for any price. However, Mike is right, it's more of a oil than a grease.

Ugly Sauce said:

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After all I went through chasing this bear through the brush, (yeah...I gut shot it) skinning, working the hide (still working it) and rendering the fat, and everything else involved, I'd not sell my grease for any price. However, Mike is right, it's more of a oil than a grease.

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I got a few old lamps I'd like to try and see if the bear grease would work, most seem to mix bees wax to make the grease as hard as they want.

Oh yeah...never thunk about mixing it with bee's wax. There's an idea.

Lubriplate engine assembly lube, tried Mobile 1 synthetic and all sorts of things but I keep coming back to this. It's more of an NLGI #0 or #1 as opposed to a thicker #2 grease.

That's all I've used for years. I keep it in the shop for other things....so it was something I already had. It's worked well enough that I see no need to change.

I use my home made bore butter

2.5 lbs raw organic beeswax from local bee hive.
3/4 cup Olive oil.
3/4 cup coconut oil "cold pressed"
Heaping tablespoon of solid crisco.
Squirt of spearmint scent/flavoring.

I cook everything in a pot till it's liquid then let solidify. If it's too oily and soft I add more beeswax...if it's to hard I add more olive oil.

Each time you recook it and let it solidify it takes on a new consistency as it's ingredients mix better and better with each cook.

I try and make a decent amount as I use this for sealing chambers, coating the arbor and for my 45 LC BP cartridges.

I also throw some of my home made bore butter into a pot and add a block of canning wax "Parrifin wax" and a crayon or two and cook it down for a excellent colored Smokeless Lube.
This smokeless lube is pretty stiff compared to it's black powder counterpart and is excellent lube for home made wads.

I just use beeswax and olive oil.

I use a custom mix consisting of lanolin, coconut oil (the hard version that melts easily, not the liquid), and a little bit of ballistol. Some of yall who sent me guns might have noticed I send their guns arbor lubed up with it. I also have a custom mix i make with Mobil1 red grease. I dont use it straight on the arbor as its not "lubey" enough for my tastes so a thin it just a little bit with other stuff. It works just fine by itself as others can attest but I make my custom mix just to make it allow the cylinder to keep spinning just a little bit longer. Inside the guns I pack with straight Mobil 1 red grease...but I cant find it on the island right now so im using valvoline full synthetic grease...its gray in color. Dunno if i like it just yet.

TheOutlawKid said:

I use a custom mix consisting of lanolin, coconut oil (the hard version that melts easily, not the liquid), and a little bit of ballistol. Some of yall who sent me guns might have noticed I send their guns arbor lubed up with it. I also have a custom mix i make with Mobil1 red grease. I dont use it straight on the arbor as its not "lubey" enough for my tastes so a thin it just a little bit with other stuff. It works just fine by itself as others can attest but I make my custom mix just to make it allow the cylinder to keep spinning just a little bit longer. Inside the guns I pack with straight Mobil 1 red grease...but I cant find it on the island right now so im using valvoline full synthetic grease...its gray in color. Dunno if i like it just yet.

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I used valvoline at first because I had it on the shelf. It works as well as Mobil but it’s not that sexy Italian Motorcycle red so there’s that consideration Kid… ;-)

I prefer the red color so that I can tell how dirty the lube gets with fouling. The valvoline is gray and it doesnt really help like the red does. Ive taken for granted how easy it was for me to drive down the road to an autozone or Walmart for random items like mobile1. I ordered Mobil 1 from amazon..using amazon primes 2 day shipping... It took 18 days to receive here on this rural alaskan island and all i got was an empty torn envelope. Apparently it "popped" out the side of the plastic bag/envelope as it was to tight a fit...got lost in transit. So I had to settle for the valvoline as it was all i could get at my local hardware/auto store.

“I prefer the red color so that I can tell how dirty the lube gets with fouling.”

This^
If I knew the gun was never to be sold I could use something else but , but, it wouldn’t “ look clean” to me.
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