Knife lubricant

I use Rem Oil in the mechanisms which is a good, light lubricant that cleans, displaces moisture, and dries leaving a thin teflon film that lubricates without capturing dust. I often use mineral oil on the blades of knives I use for food prep.
 
Tuf-Glide and some Hi-Slip grease also from Sentry, occasionally Smooth-Kote, that's on normal folders, the assisted openers get Hi-Slip on the torsion bar contact points or Tuf-Glide on coil springs.
 
I either use sharpening stone oil, or just your typical all-purpose oil (three in one). They keep my pivot points lubricated for a long time and work great. Hell, if you are desperate any lubricating agent will do the job.

- b4b
 
Since I'm a moderately avid air-gunner, I always seem to have a decent supply of Crosman Pellgunoil on hand, and that's what I use almost exclusively for my pivots, and most of my blades. On the one knife (A carbon steel Mora Classic) that I use exclusively for food-prep, I just keep a light coat of vegetable oil...and I'm not afraid of it going rancid since I use it at least every other day. A quick rinse and wipe before each use and I'm good to go, just in case.
 
Learn from my fail and don't get it on the tang if it's a liner lock! I thought there was a problem with my ZT0200 because the lock failed, but a squirt of brake cleaner and only lube in
the pivot fixed it.
 
I've been using baby oil (mineral oil + a scent, heh. Wife picked it up!). Seems to work wonderfully well. And I can cut food w/o a concern!
 
I can't remember the last time I have lubed a knife. Were I to do so, it might just be a little blast of WD-40. But any of the above should work just fine.
 
powernoodle said:
I can't remember the last time I have lubed a knife. Were I to do so, it might just be a little blast of WD-40. But any of the above should work just fine.
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That pretty well describes my habits too. I make more effort to keep my knives clean, above all else, and usually give a little spritz of WD-40 after doing so. Beyond that, I generally forget about it. That's worked fine for me.
 
Does anyone use Krytox GPL-205 as your knife lube? I haven't tried it, but have heard good things, so I would like to.

I was just going to start a thread about whether anyone had good source for this stuff other than fleabay, so if you do, please post it here.
 
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