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Gun oil substitute
Last year I was on a shotgun course, after a couple of hours the instructor comes along with a squirty bottle thing and we all oil up the working parts, same again in the afternoon.
I mention gun oil cost and he says it only costs a couple of dollars for a pint. What is it? Automatic transmission oil mixed with 10% engine oil. Used by many a police department, Federal Agency armory and issued in cleaning kits.
Turns out its one of those things that "those in the know" have known for ages and that the difference between automatic transmission oil and gun oil is so fine that you could'nt squeeze a fag paper between them.
Now tell me you all knew.
- 17-05-2012, 23:04 #2Senior Member
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I knew.
- 17-05-2012, 23:14 #3Senior Member
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Gun oil is rich in Graphite. However any oil you splatter on a moving part is better than nothing.
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- 17-05-2012, 23:20 #4
so whats the COSH and legality of mixing-up your own brew and selling it off?
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Real men lubricate their Vickers with butter!
Roy Durrands dry-bums leprechauns. FACT.
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Pork fat!
3; 2; 1; Firing NOW.........
3; 2; 1; Firing NOW ........
FFS Pass me the bloody matches.
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- 18-05-2012, 08:02 #7
Sperm Oil.
I didn't realise that.
Originally Posted by llech 
I always thought that some of the fancy greases are rich in graphite but not the oil.Last edited by Munter Hunter; 18-05-2012 at 08:05.
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- 18-05-2012, 09:29 #8Senior Member
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A good home brew recipe for carbon removal; and it works too:
Ed's Red Firearms cleaning recipe
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Indeed - wouldn't graphite make the oil look cloudy? Originally Posted by Munter Hunter Roy Durrands dry-bums leprechauns. FACT.
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- 18-05-2012, 09:50 #10Senior Member
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They gave us liniseed oil once by accident. We were in fucking Crossmaglen as well. That would have been a bad day if it had kicked off!
CC_TA and Munter Hunter like this.I was a good runner in the mob. I alway's liked to think I could get out of trouble quicker than what I got into it!
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