hooray for Ballistol -- the Khukri's Friend?

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it does have a weird smell...but a heck of a lot better than Tuff Glide :rolleyes:

Seems like great stuff. I love how I can slather it on everything and it supposedly protects...

Do you have to let it dry or anything?
 
There is a long topic on Ballistol over on www.ar15.com under the AR15 maintenance forum. It is an extreemly good oil that is 100% safe to use on everything including your skin!!! Very good gun oil!
 
SkagSig40 said:
It is an extreemly good oil that is 100% safe to use on everything including your skin!!! Very good gun oil!
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it doesn't say that on the packaging. It says if you get it on your skin you should wash with water...
 
cognitivefun said:
it doesn't say that on the packaging. It says if you get it on your skin you should wash with water...
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It is not dangerous at all. The sales repesentatives over here used to spray it in their mouth to show it is harmless - some pharmacies recommended it for the use on certain forms of skin-troubles or wound-healing. It is a true do- it-all (a friend of mine even polishes his furniture with the stuff, removes ticks from his dogs, uses it as a lube for everything :eek: - don´t ask) - but I found it leaves spots on the brass.

It is quite old - if I remember correctly it was produced as a gun-oil for the pre WWI German army (alt least one thing the "Kaiser" did right...).

Andreas
 
cliff355 said:
Seems to penetrate and work about the same as WD40.
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The B-L is a lubricant and not just a water displacer/sort of lube like WD-40 and won't dry out over time.
I poured some in a bowl as an experiment and let it set for a few weeks. Part of it evaporated away leaving a very oily and slick substance that wasn't of heavy viscosity at all.
The longer I use B-L the more impressed I am with it! :D

But I do have one problem... When my computer crashed last summer I lost the web address for the cheap place to buy it and haven't been able to find it since, of course I haven't looked that hard either.:grumpy: :rolleyes:
Does anyone happen to have the addresses? I had posted one place in the states where it seemed to be extremely reasonable and I need to buy some more.:confused:
 
Whenever I accidentally cut myself while sharpening a knife or whatnot, the Ballistol seems to stop the bleeding faster, and the cut seems to heal up faster.
 
That doesn't seem to be much cheaper than ordering directly off the Ballistol website. They actually charge much more for the 5 gal. than the Ballistol website does.
 
It's been fun...while it snows I took my khukris out and oiled them with ballistol. I put BreakFree CLP on the blades though. We'll see how it all goes...hopefully they will remain rust-free. It's fun playing and cleaning the khuks.
 
I think this Ballistol is lovely stuff.

The best part is that I don't mind as much getting it on my hands as I don't think it is toxic. Most other compounds I can't say the same about.

I did use Breakfree CLP for the blades except for my AK Bowie, which sees use in food, so I used only Ballistol on that. I had put a thin layer of palm oil on it but I removed that when I got the Ballistol. (BTW, tropical oils are much better than things like olive oil because the tropical oils tend to be highly saturated and do not go rancid the same way. But I will stick with mineral oils from now on anyway.)

Check out this wondeful Bladeforum thread:

Overall Breakfree really came out as a far superior general protectant to ballistol and Militec, which was particularly dismal. It should be noted that I ballistol might actually perform a bit better than I indicate here.
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Worth reading, thanks yoda4561 for doing this test and sharing the results.

Question: has anyone been using their khuks and putting Ballistol on them but still encountered corrosion, rust etc.?
 
cognitivefun said:
I think this Ballistol is lovely stuff.

Question: has anyone been using their khuks and putting Ballistol on them but still encountered corrosion, rust etc.?
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I don't know why you bothered with the CLP. :rolleyes: Ballistol-Lube alone will do the job, the whole job and everything about the job!

I've never had any problems with the B-L since I've been using it.
 
Yvsa said:
But I do have one problem... When my computer crashed last summer I lost the web address for the cheap place to buy it and haven't been able to find it since, of course I haven't looked that hard either.:grumpy: :rolleyes: Does anyone happen to have the addresses? I had posted one place in the states where it seemed to be extremely reasonable and I need to buy some more.:confused:
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I buy mine cheap from these guys:

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Wow someone actually read that test I posted :p Another thing with ballistol you might want to be aware of is the large round metal cans with a plastic sealed top, the 16 oz ones I believe. If stored sideways the ballistol can actually creep between the plastic and the metal can, and since it is capable of mixing with water before the volatiles evaporate caused fine rust in two of mine that i had stored this way (these only get used for gardening tools now) Another can of the same batch that was stored vertically, and had been open (the other two were still fully sealed) has no rust in it whatsoever.
 
raghorn said:
I buy mine cheap from these guys:

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Raggie when you see 'em again tell 'em to head to Oklahoma. They are needed here!!!!:D

I bet they got stuff to keep my insides from rustin too ainnit?;)
 
yoda4561 said:
Wow someone actually read that test I posted :p Another thing with ballistol you might want to be aware of is the large round metal cans with a plastic sealed top, the 16 oz ones I believe. If stored sideways the ballistol can actually creep between the plastic and the metal can, and since it is capable of mixing with water before the volatiles evaporate caused fine rust in two of mine that i had stored this way (these only get used for gardening tools now) Another can of the same batch that was stored vertically, and had been open (the other two were still fully sealed) has no rust in it whatsoever.
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Caused fine rust where exactly Yoda?
And where would it come in contact with water?:confused:

B-L does have a great capillary action! :D :cool: :D
 
yeah, that's what I mean. The capillary action caused it to creep between the seal and the can, and water got in through the film that developed. you could see the orange pasty color around the bottom of the cap. I then got the brilliant idea of shaking it to see if it would go away, and so it did, into the rest of the oil. This doesnt seem to have affected the protective qualities of it once it leaves the can however, I've used it on the yard and garden tools since then without a problem.
 
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