Frog Lube is Coconut oil.

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I was raised using Hoppe's products. However, I was also raised in a time when air conditioning was a rarity on cars. If you can do better, why not step up to it?

These "revelations" are quite typical of people who seem to live by making partial truths into a campaign. So, the carrier in Frog Lube is coconut oil. So what? Are we, then, to believe that all Frog Lube products are virgin Coconut oil, with no additives?

Sorry, as I said before, I simply want something that works. I really don't care what it uses as a carrier. As for Hoppe's, even they have altered their formulation over the decades. What they kept was the smell. So, 75 years of history, unhampered by progress, is somehow good? Even Hoppe's can't tell you it's that "same stuff".
 
I bought a quart of transmission fluid a few years ago and haven't looked back. It's still about 97% full, too.
 
Gunslick graphite grease is something I don't use anymore. It might be TOO slippery. It causes my Ruger 22 pistols to malfunction. Gives the bolt too much velocity and it doesn't strip the next round.

Only time I have ever had a lube cause a malfunction.

I mostly use CLP these days though at one time I looked at it as dubiously as Froglube.

I know folks that used to DROWN guns in WD-40, we know now that its not a great lube.

We are always looking for a new and better thing, and some marketing companies play on that. What matters is that it works.
 
Glad I didn't fall for the hype, I used GI rifle bore cleaner or Hopps for decades and 3-1 oil, Rem Oil or CLP to lube my sporting items with. NO RUST so far.
 
love this thread.
plus, the coconut oil thing is great info. anyone who knows anything about making popcorn has coconut oil in the kitchen.
i gotta say that i've been using transmission fluid to clean my guns n it seems as good as hoppes.
not sure there's much difference in anything you use.
 
susieqz said:
love this thread.
plus, the coconut oil thing is great info. anyone who knows anything about making popcorn has coconut oil in the kitchen.
i gotta say that i've been using transmission fluid to clean my guns n it seems as good as hoppes.
not sure there's much difference in anything you use.
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Bingo!

Coconut oil makes the best popcorn.

I would never use it as a gun lube however.
 
So, im guessing those other "peaks" in the NMR might be what cause froglube to dissolve gunpowder residue, whereas coconut oil does not ?

And I can tell you from the flavor, there is a surfactant in there. thats probably what causes it to clean.
 
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