The Ultimate Lubricant Thread

bushtucker said:
Not so. The (unreliable, manufacturer-sourced) LD-50 figures are for rodents. Cancer rates are increasing around the world, we know not why. Since WWII over 50,000 new chemicals have been released into the world, most with grossly inadequate testing.
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Old age and disease are old problems, and they'll get you one way or another.
 
I use a mixture of mineral/clove oil on all of my carbon steel knives.
I use Krytox, teflon lube on the pivots of my folders.
 
why clove oil?

i see not much mention (or any?) of Japanese camellia oil (which is also an additive to mineral oil, apparently.)
 
I add clove oil for it's wonderful scent and it also has strong anticeptic properties. That way if i cut myself :o I have some help with infection at hand. Clove oil has many health centered properties that make it useful at home. Plus when I oil my khukuri collection my house smells heavenly.:thumbup: :D
 
Try Ballistol. I first got it from Spyderco outlet store several years ago. I found it on the by net googlin Ballistol. According to the info I received it is amazingly human friendly and has many uses beside lube and rust preventive. I like Miltec and I think it is inviro friendly and it is agreat lube but it is not a rust preventive.
 
ArchAngel said:
I add clove oil for it's wonderful scent and it also has strong anticeptic properties. That way if i cut myself :o I have some help with infection at hand. Clove oil has many health centered properties that make it useful at home. Plus when I oil my khukuri collection my house smells heavenly.:thumbup: :D
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:D oh, ok. cool. :) sandalwood oil, would also be good. pick an essential oil that you like. it's a good way to settle the issue. it settles it for me, anyway. :D
 
I LOVE the smell of it, and I use it today on my guns
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ROFL
I thought I WAS THE ONLY ONE who LOVES the smell of Hoppes!!
"I love the smell of Hoppes in the morning!!"

I use RemOil
I have CLP that I use for my guns
I read on a gun forum I am on that CLP "expires"/ gets old
Something about little balls forming
I got aerosol cans of CLP so not real sure how you can tell if a aerosol can of CLP is "old"
In the liquid ones you can just look in the bottle to see if there is balls I guess
 
ArchAngel said:
I use Krytox, teflon lube on the pivots of my folders.
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The EPA's scientific advisory board found in 2005 that perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical compound used to make Teflon, is a "likely carcinogen." I won't use any product that requires the use of carcinogens in its manufacture just on ethical grounds alone. BTW, Krytox also uses PFOA in its manufacture (via PTFE).

wikipedia said:
Krytox is a trademark of a family of high performance synthetic lubricants (oils and greases) used in many things from spaceships to computer chip manufacturing. It is a chemical polymer belonging to the ether family that was patented by the chemical manufacturing giant DuPont. Krytox oils are a fluorocarbon polymers of polyhexafluoropropylene oxide, with a chemical formula

F − (CF(CF3) − CF2 − O)n − CF2CF3,

where the degree of polymerization, n, generally lies within the range n=10-60.[1] This mixture of compounds are collectively known by many names, including perfluoropolyether (PFPE), perfluoroalkylether (PFAE), or perfluoropolyalkylether(PFPAE). A unique identifier is their CAS registry number, 60164-51-4.

In addition to PFPE, krytox grease also contains telomers of PTFE, and in many ways krytox is designed to be a liquid or grease form of PTFE. Krytox is thermally stable, nonflammable (even in liquid oxygen), nontoxic, and insoluble in water, acids, bases, and most organic solvents. It has very low vapor pressure and can be used between about -60 and +316 to +399 °C. It is highly resistant to ionizing radiation, making it useful for aerospace and nuclear industry. It can withstand extreme pressure and high mechanical stress.
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It's an aromatic hydrocarbon. Not good for us.
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Hahahahha
Who cares if it's bad for ME!!!!??
As long as it doesn't harm my steel!!!

I smoke cigarettes and occasionally drive through LA in the summer with the windows rolled down
I have a 84 Bronco that gets like 10 MPG
I live 30 miles from SB County Jail
There is a convicted sex offender who lives 2 miles from me
The Washington Mutual near my house gets robbed about 2 times a year
I'm more worried about some drunk driver driving back to his house in Montecito after 18 tough holes at the country club than a few petrol fumes now and then.............

I do have some Break-Free CLP lying around somewhere
I thought there was long term "coating" issues for CLP I read on some gun forum
That stuff is so damn expensive though
I just figured that Remington has been around for, what, 100+ years?? and I got a few Remingtons so it must be ok...................
 
I am more and more pleased with the silicone oils I am using. Using eBay, I have bought several different "weights" to try to experiment with getting the right viscosity for knives, axes etc. I have from 1000wt to 30000wt. 30000 is like treacle, 1000 like cream. My next experiments will be with light viscosities, like water (these are the weights you get from silicone sprays).

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I find that when you apply thick silicone it looks like you have coated the blade with honey, and it stays like that for quite a long time. But eventually it "dries" on the blade to for an impervious matt barrier — very nice!

For more info on silicone oils see http://www.clearcoproducts.com/ (no relationship to me, do not sell to public AFAIK)

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Mamba-man Bushtucker,

Stop beating the dead horse. This is "The Ultimate Lubricant Thread" that you started before you got banned. This is not the "My Preferred Lubricant, Your Lubricant Sucks Because I Think It's Bad For You Thread".

Please go away before you get banned again. If you are not Mamba, which I doubt, then you are acting just like him and are heading down the same road to repeat his ultimate fate on these forums.
 
I am free to add my opinion whenever I choose. You are clearly trying to monopolize this thread. You are also trolling. Do you deny that you are Mamba? You have repeatedly given your views on your preferred lube. That is fine. That does not give you the right to tell everyone else that their choice is no good, especially for reasons that have no real validity. You can find analytical data for any chemical and say that some part of it may be bad for you. Do you think that the term "likely a carcinogen" makes it a fact? If I say that you are likely a troll does that make you one? According to you it does.
Oh, and by the way, stay away from Dihydrogen Monoxide, it is everywhere and is can be very dangerous stuff. See, it's all right here!
http://www.msu.edu/user/dynicrai/physics/H2O.htm
 
I gave some of the silicone products a shot and yes, they work. In reality, the thing to remember is to actually use the rust inhibitors on a regular basis. Forget the tool after a wet wilderness trek, and the rust demons do their thing with aplomb.

I have used mineral oil, 10w30 motor oil, wax, WD-30, petroleum jelly, amsoil products, remoil, duralube and countless other so called wonder-products. They all work to some degree.

Formula 3 gun conditioner by Kleen Bore comes close to doing everything I need. Top that off with Remington's Wonderlube (with teflon) and you are in business. Or you can get some cheap axle grease and go to town. It does not really matter which brand you use, just do it faithfully.
 
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