Mineral oil and Vasilene.

[Doc Cox]

I saw someone mention English gunmakers use a mixture of Mineral oil and Vasilene. What is the mix percentage?

Also, has anyone tried is as a patch lube?

 

[Britsmoothy]

I've used vaseline before .

I don't recommend anything other than animal and plant based but have used the above and other similar substances.
It's not as good as protecting over a period of time as animals and plant based oils and fats.

 

[necchi]

I saw someone mention English gunmakers use a mixture of Mineral oil and Vasilene. What is the mix percentage?

Also, has anyone tried is as a patch lube?

Uhm, Vaseline is mineral oil.
and No, vaselene doesn't work, never has,, if it did we'd have seen it posted all over the web for decades.
Vasilene is NOT a new discovery.
It does work for dry skin, chapped lips and a baby's butt

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Many bullet lubes are based on Vaseline.

 

[Brokennock]

Why do we keep trying to reinvent the wheel?

 

[Grenadier1758]

@Brokennock, it's the current thought process that there must be continuous improvement in all we do. And this continuous improvement has to come due to some magic elixir that we apply to our device. We can't have continuous improvement simply because we practice to improve our skills.

 

[Brokennock]

@Brokennock, it's the current thought process that there must be continuous improvement in all we do. And this continuous improvement has to come due to some magic elixir that we apply to our device. We can't have continuous improvement simply because we practice to improve our skills.

Maybe Preparation-H should be extensively tested as their new patch lube,,, I'm sure it will shrink their groups.....

 

[Sam squanch]

Vasoline jokes in 3,2,1……

 

[Yewbender]

Preparation H says it will shrink hemorrhoids so it must shrink group size as well.

 

[Sidney Smith]

Uhm, Vaseline is mineral oil.
and No, vaselene doesn't work, never has,, if it did we'd have seen it posted all over the web for decades.
Vasilene is NOT a new discovery.
It does work for dry skin, chapped lips and a baby's butt

And to seal the threads on household water filters. I use it for such every filter change

 

[IanH]

And to seal the threads on household water filters. I use it for such every filter changes

Silicone lubricating grease is better, doesn't swell the buna-n o-rings over time. Silicone grease is NOT a good bullet or patch lubricant or lube ingredient, though.

 

[Fisherking]

Vaseline is super flammable. Not a good choice for patch lube. I mix it with dryer lint to make fire starters and keep it in a plastic container near the hearth.

I don’t use it for anything else.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Vaseline is super flammable. Not a good choice for patch lube. I mix it with dryer lint to make fire starters and keep it in a plastic container near the hearth.

I don’t use it for anything else.

My patch lube is flammable. What's the problem with that?

 

[Fisherking]

The woods here are very dry. I wouldn’t want to be responsible for starting a fire.
I heard Smokey the Bear is up in Canada now anyways.

 

[Britsmoothy]

The woods here are very dry. I wouldn’t want to be responsible for starting a fire.
I heard Smokey the Bear is up in Canada now anyways.

Iv never known a lubricated patch to smoulder, have you?

 

[Fisherking]

Iv never known a lubricated patch to smoulder, have you?

Yes

 

[Polecat_Tom]

Iv never known a lubricated patch to smoulder, have you?

Another yes. Even started a small grass fire.

 

[ROA457]

I’ve used Vaseline as a sealer on revolvers, don’t think it competes with most proprietary brands or even most home made lubes. But it’s cheap and available everywhere.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Yes

Another yes. Even started a small grass fire.

What was the patch lube you used please?

 

[Fisherking]

It was an OxYoke .010 prelubed with Wonderlube and it wasnt just once or
twice.