Graphite lubricant?

They make graphite lube for guns. I have used Gunslik graphite lube and it seems to make a bolt action work smoother. I haven't used any for quite some time but this lube used to be colored black.

http://www.gunslick.com/products/chemicals/lubricants_oils/graphitelube.aspx

Mess!

Graphite & Moly is nasty stuff when you get it on you or your clothes.

You can't wash it out using any conventional methods!!

rc

I never tried on my clothes. Just my guns.

Moly has just about replaced graphite as a gun lube. It does all of the things that graphite does, only better. The only downside, other than staining clothes, is the cost. But a little goes a long way. I bought a large squeeze bottle of Moly powder 30+ years ago and still have most of it. I mix a little of the Moly powder with some synthetic oil such a Mobil 1 and lube sears and sliding surfaces with it.

ess!

Graphite & Moly is nasty stuff when you get it on you or your clothes.

You can't wash it out using any conventional methods!!

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I hate that stuff.

Gunslik works great; as the above posters noted, don't get it on your clothes. I have used powdered graphite on Remjammer 742-type guns in the winter with sucess for hunting. Wouldn't recommend it for an extensive range session, though.

Moly has replaced graphite and Teflon has replaced Moly. There are several dry lubes that work well and don't leave little black stars everywhere.

Hoppes and Remington have dry lubes. Try your local bicycle shop, mountain bikers have been dealing with lubrication without attracting dirt for a while.

I had heard not to use graphite on aluminum parts as it causes them to become brittle. Not sure if that is internet fantasy or not. I got a big tube of Moly-grease here that I use for the Zastava M77 and VZ58.

Graphite will function as a grit on soft metals (brass, aluminum, whatall), wet or dry. It is marketed as a lock lube, but it will screw up the brass tumblers and should never be used in locks. On the other hand, back in the 50's & 60's, _The_ lube for 1911 bullseye shooters was Drislide. I'm not sure it was the same formulation as the product today, but the only way to get it out of your clothes back then was with scissors. Too many good products today that do a superb job without endangering your favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd t-shirt...

Best gun lube:

http://www.amazon.com/Mobil-98KE65-...33283918&sr=8-15&keywords=synthetic+motor+oil

I have become enamored of the following stuff over graphite lubricants:

http://m.advanceautoparts.com/mt/sh...rease-10574/10584101-P?searchTerm=red+n+tacky

In full disclosure the smell is a tad funky, but if some stranger is smelling your pistol you might have other things to worry about ...

Once upon a time, we were told to degrease our guns an lube them with graphite powder... for hunting polar bears, etc. I am sure there is something better now.

I am using some old Gunslick graphite grease. The little tube places it precisely enough to avoid black spots on clothes.
I have a jar of moly doped grease. It is slick but I need to figure out a way to apply it without getting it everywhere.

I still use GunSlick Graphite Grease in the old metal tubes on trigger jobs.

I have never found anything better for slick, and burnishing in mating surfaces.

Problem is, I think they stopped making it there for a while.

Last couple of tubes I have left came out of junk Outers cleaning kits at flea markets.

But it looks like it is available again.

http://www.gunslick.com/products/chemicals/lubricants_oils/graphitelube.aspx

rc

I have to admit the tips of the old Gunslick tubes (I have 2 left ) fit perfectly in the slide and frame raceways & deposit exact amounts of lube exactly where you want them. I confess to using it still, but only in the dead of night with the doors locked and lights off... It works

Shhhhhsssssssssssss!

I still use WD-40 to wash it off too!

But don't tell anyone, O.K.??

The black cloud of Internet wrath & scorn will hover over me and this thread forever!!!

rc

gunslick graphite

We still use it here on some guns. Yes you get some on your clothes, but we have never won any prizes for snazzy dressing anyway. Doubt if anyone would notice if we had a dead skunk hanging around our neck. Glad to see they started making it again. Last we bought was on ebay. (Works real well on the cartridge or print head rails to rejuvenate your old printer too.) OYE

rcmodel said:

Mess!

Graphite & Moly is nasty stuff when you get it on you or your clothes.

You can't wash it out using any conventional methods!!

rc

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I used this stuff once circa 1959 on the bolt of a single shot .22 rifle and haven't used it since. You don't realize what all you pick up while cleaning and lubing a gun until you get this stuff on your fingers ... which is inevitable.

I recently found an old glass Mayonnaise jar with five little gray tubes of this black gunk in it; only one appeared to have been opened. I guess being a new shooter and unwilling to throw away what Outers said I needed led to them being stored and not ditched long ago.

As my son has been known to say, "Man that stuff is nasty".