Slide lube?

Ed's Red with lanolin. I clean whole handguns with the grips off in a heated ultrasonic cleaner, the guns feels slippery even after wiping it down after doing that. I've read that it is great at resisting corrosion. Most guys don't add the lanolin, to me it's the most important ingredient (With a solvent carrier).
 
In both cases I prefer the Lubriplate brand of products.

OIL = Lubriplate’s FMO-AW oil specifically the 350-AW weight.

GREASE = Lubriplate “SFL” NLGI #0 grease.
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Is this what Grant Cunningham was advocating a few years ago? With all the toxic stuff we use in shooting and gun ownership, I like the idea of less toxic options. The warm, sometimes moist, and sometimes salty environments in which concealed carry firearms need their protection aren't necessarily the best place for toxic hydrocarbons. I think these food-service grade products are worth a shot and I'll be ordering some soon.

In the mean time, anybody use these on a pocket folder?
 
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Is this what Grant Cunningham was advocating a few years ago?
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Yup. It's good stuff but there's only one source I'm aware of for single user quantities. It's a company called Lubrikit that sells a grease/oil kit on the internet. You can find the product elsewhere, but usually only in huge quantities. Most folks have no need for several gallons of oil.
In the mean time, anybody use these on a pocket folder?
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I've messed around with various oils for folding knives and have yet to find anything better than chain lube. It's basically a dry/wax lube in a liquid carrier. You shake up the bottle, apply the lube in liquid form, work the blade a bit and then wipe up the mess. It's definitely messy. But once it dries and you get the excess wiped up it works very well and keeps working a long time.

There's a product called White Lightning marketed as a knife and tool lube, but I found the identical product being sold as bicycle chain lube at a lower price. I think it was at Wal-Mart.

I've also used a Teflon based chain lube I found at Lowes and it works just as well and has a more pleasant smell. It's called Dupont Chain-Saver Lubricant and comes in a 4 oz bottle.
 
Thanks, John. I'll be pulling the trigger on that "Lubrikit" sometime in the next few weeks. I got excited because I recently got the Torx bits to take apart and repair a Kershaw knife I like. I noticed that besides the normal parts that get oil, their special "speedsafe" mechanism needs grease. I had been wondering if Lubrikit would kill two birds with one stone for my daily carry stuff.
 
I use my Lubriplate (bought too in Lubrikit form) on the pivots of my daily carry knives (usually a GEC 21) as I often use them on my afternoon apple, and want something that is food safe. Don't want to use a petroleum based lubricant on a knife that will come in contact with food. Nicely kills two birds with one stone!
 
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