Anyone use Break Free on their Knives?

akadave2

akadave2

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I love the stuff. I have used it for years on all my firearms and steel cutting implements...the ones I dont use for food that is.

Dave
 
I have used it for a long time on pivots, but I'm a lube freak. I go around looking for moving parts and squeaky things to zap with white lithium grease or WD-40.
 
I agree, BreakFree is great stuff.:thumbup: I like to have the regular dropper bottle and an aerosol can on hand.

I also have a little bottle of "Slip 2000" clp type of stuff. It seems to perform really well on knives too.
 
If you put a screw or nut in the Breakfree bottle, it sinks to the bottom where the teflon lives. Helps to disperse the teflon when you shake the bottle. Thats my theory anyway. Sorta like the ball in the spray paint can.
 
used break free for years and love it. use it on everything from a stockman to my bushy. keeps everything perking along nicely.
 
I use it on many things, in fact I keep a can of it in the car.

For knives, though, I prefer FP-10.
 
I use Break Free in many places I use to use WD40. Have always used Break Free on guns and knife pivots. Only issue with Break Free is that it migrates...
 
It's the best.

I use on my knives but use on my firerams is where it truly shines.
 
I don't know why people keep including lubricants in their rust prevention tests. Militec-1 was listed in the unsatisfactory section of the first round of tests and was then removed. This really isn't fair to Militec-1, because it never claims to be a rest preventative. For rust and for cleaning, it's a little better than using water. It's claim to fame is as a lubricant.

I've been using BreakFree on my firearms for years and have found it to be a great rust preventative, a good lubricant and a very marginal cleaner. But it also has a tendency to attract a lot of gunk. My BreakFree bottles downstairs have gunk on the outside and have attracted all sorts of grit, dust and other stuff that floats in the air. Its ability to break free old lubricants that have bound up my revolvers also is only so-so.

In desert environments, soldiers worry more about dust and grit than rust, and BreakFree is actually more of a problem than a solution. I talked to a Marine who just returned from Iraq, and he told me that he paid for his own Militec-1 (though he uses CLP in his own weapons at home). In a jungle environ like Vietnam, BreakFree would be entirely appropriate; however, in the desert, he and his men had to clean their weapons continually to get out all the grit that blows into their weapons. Finally, someone gave him an ounce bottle of Militec-1, and that sold him. He also was amazed at how long one ounce lasted. After ordering some on his own, he learned that Militec will provide it FREE to active duty soldiers upon request.

Militec-1 goes on light and then seems to largely evaporate, leaving a gun that functions noticeably better and more reliably.

I used BreakFree on a small fine leather patch to try to remove some light surface rust on my Beretta 70S. Although some of the rust color came off on the patch, it failed miserably to work its way under the rust and lift it off, as the developers claimed. I finally had the little Beretta hard chromed, and the rest of my guns are stainless steel, so a rust preventive is only a passing interest for me. And the guns I'd used some cheap oil on years before took a long while for BreakFree to work on, while the Militec-1 worked in seconds.

Knives, from just being in one's pockets, picks up a lot of grit, so when I need to lubricate a knife, I use Militec-1. Most don't need rust prevention unless one lives in a wet, dank environment. One reason is because knives are opened, used, wiped down aand closed. Like a railroad track that sees frequent use, the steel is bright and free of rust. Thus, lubrication tends to be the primary concern.
 
In desert environments, soldiers worry more about dust and grit than rust, and BreakFree is actually more of a problem than a solution
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Makes sense , anything wet that stays wet is going to attract dust , lint , dirt , etc.

I still say though , once you use it on your personal firearms you'll never use anything else.
I mean it's not like someone wont develop something better sometime in the future but until then...

edit - I'm going to have to disagree on the statement that it wont help to loosen rust. I have refurbed a few 'quite nasty' older pistols and knives and tools with Break-Free.
The thing is you have to let it work it's way it and do the job , even then it's not going to turn water into wine - Rust pits arent going to heal themselves with shiny new metal but you will have a much , much easier time of working on the item and returing it to some of it's former glory plus ! you've cured the metal and with proper care it will remain rust free and be easier to clean in the future.
 
i use both militec 1 and breakfree both for different reasons ,,for my firearms breakfree
for my knives militec is excellent..
 
For sheer corrosion/rust prevention, Boeshield T-9 is the best I have found, but for lubrication I'd give the edge to the Miltec. For cleaning metal, especially fouled firearms, Montana Extreme gets my vote.

All that said, we have an embarrassment of riches nowadays compared to 40 years ago. I must have 20 products on shelves that will take care of anyone's needs, even Robinson Crusoe's.

The twin subjects of metal protection and knife sharpening are God's gifts to obsessive compulsives. I can't stop myself from thinking, " Maybe this product will work a bit better, a bit longer, under even worse conditions; Maybe I can get this edge even sharper!"

I was in Woodcraft the other day and a salesman asked me, " May I help you?" I replied, " It can't be done."
 
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