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WD-40 Specialist-Silicone Quick Drying
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Most automatic transmission fluids are a synthetic version of sperm whale oil. The Ford version is supposed to be the best choice. You might have to clean more often but it does work. Should work pretty good on lock parts and trigger levers.Whale oil is hard to come by in my town.
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ATF with a dollop a lanolin melted into it is an excellent lube and preservative in my shop. There are lots of excellent rust inhibitors commercially available, you can't go wrong. Lanolin was available long ago and is a top notch preservative. As far as other non petro stuff, not on my guns. They used the greasy parts of game animals because that is all they had, not because it had any particular advantage.
Would WD40 Specialist be ok if used as bore lube after shooting Goex black powder and regularly cleaning bore with water following patch drying the bore. Lately, I have regular build up of surface rust in bore after cleaning & drying.
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FishDFly, I haven’t seen this particular silicone spray, however I have been using Lube 1 for about 20 years It is also a silicone based oil. While shooting a .22 pistol silhouette match. I noticed the state champ and the third place shooter both had the same can in their shooting bag. Inquiring I found out Lube 1 was the only lube they both used. So for the last 20 years I have used it on all my guns which includes many Damascus doubles. It has given me zero rust on guns that I haven’t touched in years. For myself I say absolutely great stuff.
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