Slide/Frame rail lubricant preferences?

What do you use to lubricate your slide/frame rails?

  • Oil

    Votes: 69 61.1%

  • Grease

    Votes: 44 38.9%
  • Total voters
    113
Faster Blaster,
This is always an interesting question, as is "what's the best 9mm"? You get every answer possible, and end up concluding that you'd better just try them all and pick a favorite. I think that, like so many guns of every caliber, there are many good lubes out there. And I'm sure that regular usage is more important than which products are used.
Dwight M S ;)
 
Oil or Grease?

Hey, no one mentioned what I use on all my autos - Something made especially for rapid-firing autos - pistol, rifle, shotgun: Breakfree Greased Lightning. It's thicker than regular Break Free.
 
I clean with Hoppe's, then spray with gun scrubber (sparingly and carefully), then use militec-1 on the rails. I have also been known to use a dab of Rem-oil. Ron
 
ok, i have a question for everyone.......how about boeshield t9? I am heavily into bicycles and use this stuff religously......it was designed by boeing for aircraft part protection. It will stick to metal for months, dries and leaves a coating of superior lubricant. It seems ideal for firearms, ive been wiping the outside of my slide on my HK .45 with it, for protection, im thinking about using it for everything. Also, we use tri-flow which is teflon based and says it can be used on firearms. Any thoughts on these two lubricants for firearms duty, cuz i have a ton of the stuff!!
 
TW-25B is what two factory Glock Armorers recommended, as did the LE customer service guys for use on LE pistols.

They also recommend it for the connector/trigger bar location.

I use it on all my semi-autos for 5+ years with 100% satisfaction. :D

Grease stays where you put, oil runs after time leaving virtually no lubrication. :eek:
 
Ok, How come no one has mentioned....

Microlon Gun Juice? This is by far the most advanced oil-less dry film lubricant on the market today. No, I am not trying to sell the product but if you ever try it you will never use conventional oils again. It is a metal treatment that cleans the metal of carbon residues, impregnates the metal and creates a micro-thin dry film lubricant. It does not attract dust, dirt or grit like ordinary gun oils. Just wondering if anyone else uses this product? Be safe and careful.
 
I like Shooters Choice FP-10 although Break Free CLP also works very well. In the early 1980s I had a good supply of real Sperm Whale Oil that was really wonderful. It could make a real jam-o-matic work like a sewing machine.
Jack
 
Mark 1 more for CLP.

Worked for me for 4 years of the Marine Corps, see no reason to change now. Works on my 1911A1 9mm as well as my P99 just fine.

I'd like to add to this the Question of how often you clean your guns? Personaly I do every time I shoot, be it 50 or 500 rounds, this way if I HAVE to skip it one time it's no big deal because I did it last time.
 
I clean my pistols with Kroil and then lube the frame and slide and any other contact surface (sear and hammer) with a high pressure graphite impregnated grease that is used for wheel bearings. All I do is apply a thin coat of grease with a Q-Tip. I look at it this way, You are going to get crud in all the areas that you can think of in a firearm. So its better to have something than nothing.

WillyZ
 
slide lube

I'm backing up WillyZ.
I use a tiny, tiny bit of moly-based grease on the rails, applied with a q-tip.
If you can see any grease, you have used too much grease.
I also do the same thing to the internal parts of revolver triggers.
It works rather well.
Maybe I enjoy cleaning and re-greasing the guns a little too much.
 
Caz223,
I believe that we have the same obsession in cleaning and re- greasing our guns. I usually strip down all the parts to my guns when I clean them (which is every time I shoot them). I spend close to 2 hours each on all my guns. Theres nothing like have a gun (especially my pistols) clean with little friction on the slide, sear and the hammer. YEA HA.

WillyZ
 
TW-25...when available, Tetra and Rigg +P Stainless Grease...not in any order...just oil in the winter and grease in the summer...If I don't have one of the above, any dang thing that's slippery will do ;)
 
SO MANY LUBES, SO FEW GUNS

TetraSkunk, or CLP.

I got most all of them (found a bottle and spray-can of Tri-Flo in a box yesterday!) but based soley on results I use TeraGrease on rails and sears and slide stop-type stuff, and BreakFree CLP on everything else. Or just CLP.
(I like to use a TetraLube-saturated patch through a clean bore. After it dries completely I run a dry patch back through. Think about it....)

If forced to choose ONLY ONE it would be BreakFree.
 
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