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Does anyone know if rem oil will screw up delrin bone or other handle materials? I have a friend who put rem oil in a bag with a imperial that had no snap and after he took it out it snapped again but those were full metal. I was wanting to see if it would work on some of my knives but i don't want to screw up my knives by accident.
 
I've been wiping down and lubing with rem oil for years, with no (noticed) I'll effects. It will darken wood, although I think it's worse to let it dry & shrink. YMMV!
 
BTW, delrin is resistant to nearly any chemical out there (acids, harsh cleaners, etc...). A harsh solvent may remove a little dye, but it would take something pretty powerful.
 
An occasional wipe-down, i highly doubt it. I believe it would darken bone/stag. I don't know for sure what it'd do to wood but I'm almost certain it won't affect delrin one bit.
 
I've used REM OIL for years on firearms with wood stocks - it hasn't caused any damage that I can tell (I don't let it soak into the wood). OH
 
Old Hunter said:
I've used REM OIL for years on firearms with wood stocks - it hasn't caused any damage that I can tell (I don't let it soak into the wood). OH
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I use to use it to wipe all the gunk off wood stocks before polishing them. Never hurt a thing.

The only thing you wanna watch for with RemOil is that it's a petroleum distillate so it won't be friendly to rubber or some types of plastic. I've heard some people say it makes plastic buffers in auto-loading rifles brittle and stuff like that but honestly I don't think that's really that common, lots of people use it. It's a really good cleaner, and it leaves a coating of teflon behind that works a bit as a drylubricant.

Definitely not food friendly though. I like to use it to clean off really hard-to-get-off gunk on my knife blades that I do wood work with. Dried sap in particular just doesn't come off with anything but melts off with RemOil :)
 
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