Black Diamond Nipple & Plug Lube

[Blue Grass]

I have a T/C Black Diamond .50 stainless rifle. I need some lube for the nipple and breech plug. What do you guys use? Anyboby use T/C Bore Butter? Thanks.

 

[Pahoo]

I too have a Black Diamond and on the breach plug and nipple, I use a copper based anti-seiz, that you can buy from most plumbing supply house and will last you forever. I have also used a nickle base higher temp anti-siez but the copper works better for me. The auto supply houses also carry an anti-siez that is primarily used for speark plugs and that will work as well. Then there is the TC products that is rated for this as well as shotgun choke tubes. To answer your last question, I would not use bore butter for this application and I am a fan of bore butter. Bore butter will just not stand up to heat. By the way, If you ever have a need for some 209 primer nipples, I have more than I will ever use as I am currently using musket primers.



Be Safe !!!

 

[Blue Grass]

Thanks, Pahoo. I'll keep your offer in mind.

 

[EmptyHull]

Anti-seize compound.

 

[Mark whiz]

Teflon tape - either the pink stuff sold by T/C as breech plug tape or just the solvent resistent tape you can get at a hardware store. One good wrap over the breech plug threads (and maybe a dap of light grease or bore butter on top of the taped threads) and you are good to go. Plug removal and thread cleaning is a snap when you take out the plug.
For nipples, a standard nipple grease or breech plug grease is fine - I use either Knight Grease of the T/C silicon nipple grease.

 

[shortwave]

I`ll second Pahoo`s advice on the copper based anti -seize. Use sparingly and apply only to nipple threads.

 

[arcticap]

Bore Butter certainly works better than using nothing at all. Coat all of the breech plug threads liberally to spead the lube and to work it in to the thread grooves.
Inserting and removing the plug once or twice extra helps to accomplish that.
It works fine but maybe not for as many shots during a long range session as the breech plug greases do.
But Bore Butter is less messy, non-toxic and often close at hand when a breech plug & nipple lube is really needed.

 

[FJM25]

T/C Gorilla Grease on my Black Diamond XR .50 cal - liberally coat the breech plug threads and very light on the 209 primer nipple. Have never had any problems. Key: do not over tighten the breech plug or the nipple.