Kalos
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Ok, we all know Garands love grease. And I've heard quite a few people mention using grease on, say, the slide rails of 1911s. What I'm curious about is if there's any situation in which you should -not- use grease to lubricate a gun.
I just picked up a CMP Garand a few weeks ago, and a tin of lubriplate that'll last me a lifetime from Brownell's a few days after that. While I was using it on the Garand, I noticed something: I really -like- grease. That may sound a little silly, but it's true--grease stays where I put it, it's easy to control the amount you apply, and it does a fantastic job of making things slippery. So the next thing I know, I'm putting grease on the slide rails of my 1911, and then I'm using it on my Yugo 59/66. Right now I've got my eye on a 91/30 Mosin that's starting to show some bluing wear right on the top lip of the receiver, where the front part of the bolt handle cams on opening and closing--it seems to be a perfect spot for grease, since oil would just drip down into the receiver, and from there probably into the magazine somewhere. But before I completely succumb to the siren call of Grease, I figured it might be a good idea to check and see if there's anywhere it absolutely should not be used--where it might cause damage to the gun, for example, in a sort of reverse of the way that improper lubrication of a Garand can cause damage to it. I'm still using oil (ballistol, actually) for rust prevention, and am quite happy with it--a Mosin Nagant tool with imperial markings has been dangling from my keychain in the heat, humidity, and occasionally rain for several months now with just a coat of ballistol applied back before it wound up on my keychain and it shows no signs of corrosion. All I want grease to do is make things slippery.
So, any ideas? Or am I free to grease to my heart's content?
I just picked up a CMP Garand a few weeks ago, and a tin of lubriplate that'll last me a lifetime from Brownell's a few days after that. While I was using it on the Garand, I noticed something: I really -like- grease. That may sound a little silly, but it's true--grease stays where I put it, it's easy to control the amount you apply, and it does a fantastic job of making things slippery. So the next thing I know, I'm putting grease on the slide rails of my 1911, and then I'm using it on my Yugo 59/66. Right now I've got my eye on a 91/30 Mosin that's starting to show some bluing wear right on the top lip of the receiver, where the front part of the bolt handle cams on opening and closing--it seems to be a perfect spot for grease, since oil would just drip down into the receiver, and from there probably into the magazine somewhere. But before I completely succumb to the siren call of Grease, I figured it might be a good idea to check and see if there's anywhere it absolutely should not be used--where it might cause damage to the gun, for example, in a sort of reverse of the way that improper lubrication of a Garand can cause damage to it. I'm still using oil (ballistol, actually) for rust prevention, and am quite happy with it--a Mosin Nagant tool with imperial markings has been dangling from my keychain in the heat, humidity, and occasionally rain for several months now with just a coat of ballistol applied back before it wound up on my keychain and it shows no signs of corrosion. All I want grease to do is make things slippery.
So, any ideas? Or am I free to grease to my heart's content?