Fighting corrosion on your gear How do you do it?

[Rancid Crabtree]

Originally Posted by skeet

I too have used Break Free for many years. As far as a gun oil.. I used Browning oil for many years..till they changed the formula. And in my opinion.....WD-40 Sucks..but it will displace water..usually

Actually WD40 does not displace water. Not by a long shot. As the products I buy come in I am doing preliminary work with them to check out the claims made. WD40 floats on water and in no way displaces it. Nearly all the products claim water displacing attributes and almost all of them do nothing of the sort. So far only 3 products I have looked at actually displace water.

[skeet]

Many years ago I had a friend who worked as a courier to our Russian Embassy. They didn't check his diplomatic pouch so I had him get me a quart..well 2 liters...of true Sperm Oil. I still have 8 ounces of it and still use it..sparingly on the good O/Us and SxS guns I have. It never gets thick or gummy..and it will displace water..But since the late 60s you can't get whale oil any longer. But it is for internal use.. It is not runny. I do have an old rag I keep in a tin can with that oil on it to wipe guns down. It will attract dust etc like any oil. When I said WD 40 displaces water..When you wipe a gun down with a rag after spraying WD..it does bring the water and salt with it. but after it dries it leaves a brown film that is really hard to get rid of around and under vent ribs and in crevices.. Nasty stuff. It is not a spray the gun and forget it kinda stuff. Even gun scrubber won't melt it away

[Rapier]

I can cut your search down a bit by telling you the winner, without any question. Well I can tell you about it. It does not really have a name just a military stock number and a maker's name. It is used by the USAF ammo guys in the ammo dump (a Chief told me about it) to re-package and store the Am-ram missiles that are returned unused on aircraft. It preserves the rocket motors after exposure to the elements. It is an aerosol, it sprays on as a light tan color fine spray then when the carrier / solvent evaporates it looks like Rig, brown and sticky. It cuts itself, so to get it off you just spray it again an easily wipe it off. I got an empty can and looked the company up. They are or were in New Orleans, LA. They sell it by the 12 can case at about $10 per can. But, they may be gone, after Katrina and all.

In a military test of polished bare steel, exposed to fresh water and then salt water for 3 weeks each, the steel sprayed with this stuff had NO rust. The way I found it was looking for a preservative for my Ruger OM SA collection that stayed in the safe for long periods. I sold all of the guns to other collectors some years ago.

But for my light weight everyday gun use, come rain, shine, etc, I use G-96. I carry my O/U guns all over the world, rain or shine, they get sprayed down with G-96 and a shot down the bore, two hours set, and a bore snake makes them shine like a new penny, the gun's outside is a G-96 rag wipe down. I have the golden touch, a very acidic system, so I pay attention to preservatives, I use W-D to cut crud on tools or heavy equipment, never touches my guns.
Ed

[Rapier]

The military rocket motor spray is:

8030-00-938-1947
Corrosion Preventive Compound
Water Displacing
Ultra Thin

Bulk Chemical Ltd.
Gretna, LA 70033

Ed