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I'll bet a comment is here somewhere but I can't find it. H.Depot etc. carries this stuff and it's great for garage doors but has anyone used ProLube Garage Door Spray on their guns? How's it worked out?
I'm just a poor old guy and want to hand down my guns in good cond. thanks
 
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Don't.
Your guns are not garage door openers.
Whatever the lubricating properties are, the ability to protect against rust may be poor.

If you just want a good gun grease to keep your guns lubricated go to any hardware, farm supply, or Walmart and buy a can or tube of Lithium grease.
Lithium grease is what was the specified USGI grease for the M1 Rifle and the M14 in the early days.

It's heat resistant, water resistant and lubricates as good as just about any grease can. It also protects against rust.
And it's dirt cheap.

If you're main concern is rust, buy a bottle of CLP Breakfree at a gun store or from Brownell's.
Don't buy a spray bottle, it doesn't spray a fine mist. Buy a larger plastic bottle with a spray attachment or the smaller 4 ounce squirt bottle and apply with a soaked patch.
CLP Breakfree is an excellent lubricant and one of the all time best rust proofers.
The US military has used CLP on firearms from pistols up to tank barrels since the 60's.
 
Not to berate you, but your guns are worth hundreds of dollars apiece, and you want to pass them down to the next generation in good order. Why then, are you considering anything but firearm oil and lubricants, made expressly for that purpose?

Ten or fifteen dollars will furnish enough gun stuff to last a decade or two, unless you own a hundred guns or some such thing.

The difference in value between a 98% heirloom and a 85% heirloom can be big bucks, definitely the price of a bottle of the proper protectant. Why risk any finish on something not tested by the industry on firearms?

A two dollar can of gun oil and a soft rag will prevent rust, it's all you need inside and outside of the gun, once it's clean.
 
Just go to Wallyworld and spring for a bottle of RemOil or CLP.

If your lubing your guns correctly, you're only using a drop or three. A full bottle will last for many cleaning cycles.

Or go get a quart of Mobile 1 Synthetic which should last you a lifetime.
 
He might be more concerned with preservation than general lubricating.
If so, then the entire gun should be covered with something lasting.
Just a thought.
 
After much research, I've found that ProLube, CP and G96 Gun Treatment are made by the same company named 'CloPay'. It seems to have the same properties as the military grade spec's "finest lubricant." Who knew? :rolleyes:
 
Guns are simple machines, they don't need fancy pseudoscience lubes contrary to what marketing experts will have you believe.

Anything meant for lubing metal parts will not damage a gun.

A lifetime supply of gun products can be had for a few bucks at an old fashioned hardware store.
 
Or go get a quart of Mobile 1 Synthetic which should last you a lifetime.
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Yep. I haven't bought a bottle of "firearms lubricant" in more than 10 years. I buy a quart of Synthetic 10w30 every spring to change the oil in my push mower, which doesn't take quite a quart, so it leaves enough left for firearms use throughout the year.
 
"Guns are simple machines, they don't need fancy pseudoscience lubes contrary to what marketing experts will have you believe."

But but but BUT BUT BUTBUTBUTBUTBUTBUT!!!!

How can it be any good if it's not packaged in quarter-ounce bottles for $9.95?

How can it be any good if it doesn't have a picture of a gun on it?

How can it be any good if it doesn't say "Specially formulated to protect your guns with the tears of endangered Harpy Eagles!"?

How can it be any good if it doesn't cause a fight on an internet gun forum?

Everyone KNOWS that if you don't use GUN oil on a gun, it will seize up in 3 seconds and turn into an undifferentiated blob of rust in 3 minutes!

:D
 
"If you just want a good gun grease to keep your guns lubricated go to any hardware, farm supply, or Walmart and buy a can or tube of Lithium grease."


I used to use lithium grease, but I've since moved to moly greases. I find their lubricating properties to be a bit better, and most of the lithium greases I've used over the years have gone pretty stiff at lower temperatures.

I used to use something called DSX grease, which was a fluropolymer grease, but it tended to stiffen up REALLY badly at low temperatures.


I'm just about out of grease, but I'm hearing good things about Valvoline's SynPower Synthetic grease for a wide variety of applications. It's primarily an automotive lubricant, but it supposedly has great lubricating properties and excellent corrosion resistance.

Plus, a pound of it is like $9...

Oddly enough, that's about the price of an OUNCE of Tetra Grease...
 
I have a grease gun that's had the same unknown grease in it for years. I squeezed a nice blob in a Altoids tin that I just dab out when needed, and that's what I've been using.

Jeez....I hope my guns don't suddenly seize up.!! :eek:
 
ProLube Garage Door seems to have an organic clay as an ingredient.

I've never seen that in CLP or gun oil.

Buy the right stuff.
 
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He might be more concerned with preservation than general lubricating.
If so, then the entire gun should be covered with something lasting.

Like ... cosmoline?
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Nope.

Go to any Ace and get a can or two of LPS3. It's their brand of Paralketone and is used for corrosion prevention in the bellies of aircraft and on boats. It sprays on then dries to a semi tacky waxy coating that is much easier to remove than Cosmoline.

I used it in Florida for many years and it kept guns rust free for literally decades.
 
"ProLube Garage Door seems to have an organic clay as an ingredient."

Are you saying that it's the wrong product because of the organic clay?

Organic clays are almost always bentonite clays. There are a few other, much rarer, clays that are classed as organic.

They have a LONG history of being used as binders in lubricants to help keep the lubrication where it's supposed to be instead of wandering off somewhere else.

Bentonite clays also have some lubricating properties in and of themselves.

Even in the day and age of the BEST SUPER MICRO MOLECULE HYPER OUTER SPACE PROVEN FRICTIONLESS LUBRICANT OF ALL TIME, bentonite clay lubricants are used worldwide because they work.
 
"It's their brand of Paralketone and is used for corrosion prevention in the bellies of aircraft and on boats."

But... butbutbutbutBUTBUTBUTBUTBUT!!!!


Guns ain't aircraft or boats!!!


GUNS AIN'T AIRCRAFT OR BOATS!!!!


:p
 
BUT Mike ,my armed PBY flys, swims, and shoots so that lube works great!
First learn about the basics of lubrication ! Before synthetics my technition asked about some turbine oil we used ., 'OK for guns? ' It was a Mobil turbine oil, very highly refined [no parafins precipitate at low temps]. Had viscocity improvers [similar vicosity at various temps] and a few others that I have forgotten.In fact it had all the qualities wanted for guns where it worked very well ! :p
 
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