Any homemade spray lubricants?

[rcmodel]

O.K.
Think this through to the bitter end.

You have one or more guns, costing between $200 and $2,000 dollars.

Some of the ammo costs between .10 cents and $10 dollars a shot.
(If you happen to have a elephant gun?)

So, you want to reinvent a reliable gun oil in a spray bottle to save .25 cents a year at most??

I'm using the same spray can of Rem-Oil I bought 5 years ago on a 50 gun collection.

If you are using more spray oil then that?

You are using WAY TOO MUCH spray oil on your gun / guns.

rc

 

[stchman]

O.K.
Think this through to the bitter end.

You have one or more guns, costing between $200 and $2,000 dollars.

Some of the ammo costs between .10 cents and $10 dollars a shot.
(If you happen to have a elephant gun?)

So, you want to reinvent a reliable gun oil in a spray bottle to save .25 cents a year at most??

I'm using the same spray can of Rem-Oil I bought 5 years ago on a 50 gun collection.

If you are using more spray oil then that?

You are using WAY TOO MUCH spray oil on your gun / guns.

rc

I guess a 10 oz can of Rem Oil and a 10 oz can of Hoppe's #9 should be a lifetime supply of cleaner and lube?

 

[Sniper66]

I've used Rem Oil, Hoppe's, and other similar products, including 3 in 1 oil when that's all I knew about 60 years ago. Having cleaned, owned, shot, sold, and traded dozens of guns over the last 60 years and narrowed my stash down to 20 or so guns (sold one today), I've never worried about cleaning costs. No I don't have unlimited funds and I do check prices, but in the grand scheme of things, this a minimal expense.

 

[cfullgraf]

Yes, it would be nice if motor oil would go through a spray/squirt bottle- that's why I pour it in a baby food jar and I just dip a paint brush in it and "paint" it on the external metal surfaces. It also makes it go a LONG way.

I had not thought of using a paint brush to apply oil. More precise application to the desired location as oppose to squirting or spraying.

Good idea, I'll have to give it a whirl.

I'm another fan of Ed's Red for cleaning.

I tend to use Rem oil or CLP for lubrication. I find they last long enough that the premium "designer product" pricing is not objectionable in the long run.

I have a small quantity of Red Line synthetic racing oil left oil from my last oil change in the race car that I was thinking of trying on my firearms.

 

[Stumper]

Regarding the "horrors of teflon". Perhaps it shouldn't go in a gas tube.(Cleaning gas tubes is a ridiculous excersise anyway) But I can't see how cooking a LUBRICANT (PTFE is the slickest solid I know of) onto reciprocating parts could be a problem. The Milspec lube is CLP.....which contains teflon.

 

[stchman]

In the grand scheme of things, yes, lubricant cost is probably minimal. As a gun person, I am always thinking of things in a gun sense.

Why do people reload ammo? In the grand scheme they aren't saving very much. Yes, they might be getting a better load for long range rifles, but for pistol ammo, not so much. I don't want to start a flame thing, but we as gun people are always thinking.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Pam Cooking Spray....... Every shot smells like breakfast