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8/9/2006 1:19:29 PM EDT
Is there a big difference between the white lithium grease and the regular black lithium grease? I know that I have purchased some magazines that came with the white lithium greaser applied to the springs. I have a bunch of different magazines that I wanted to put the grease on, just for measure I suppose, but I have a ton of black lithium and no white lithium grease. I didn't know if there was a big difference. Is it ok to use?

8/22/2006 11:38:00 AM EDT
[#1]
Are you talking about AR mags?

AR mags require NO GREASE.  I can't think of any weapon mags that require grease, come to think of it.

The springs won't wear a hole in the mag body you know!
8/22/2006 12:29:07 PM EDT
[#2]

Quoted:
Are you talking about AR mags?

AR mags require NO GREASE.  I can't think of any weapon mags that require grease, come to think of it.

The springs won't wear a hole in the mag body you know!


A BIG +1
8/22/2006 12:36:11 PM EDT
[#3]
Putting grease in a magazine is a great way to get it to fail.
8/22/2006 12:54:25 PM EDT
[#4]
8/22/2006 1:42:35 PM EDT
[#5]
Jeffress77,

There is no need to grease your magazine springs, as it will only cause a build up that you don't want.  It may work for long term storage, but not for actual use.
8/23/2006 5:25:48 PM EDT
[#6]
Who made the magazines that came with grease???  I agree with everyone else, lightly lube the inside bearing points on brand new DRY ones but grease on the springs I don't get unless this is a preservative grease.  

If I use grease I like Mobil 1, Synthetic Chassis Grease (nice sexy pink color) or GAA,
Grease Artillery & Automotive.  Grease Aircraft WTR (Wide Temperature Range) is also excellent.  All are proven to work in cold weather as well.  I fell into a whole case of GAA at a flea market a couple years back in one lb cans and love it.
8/23/2006 6:24:15 PM EDT
[#7]
There's a place in an AR for lithium grease-under the barrel nut.  It needs to be the white lithium stuff, and I'd go the extra mile and use the grade called for in the TM instead of brake grease.

But in a magazine?  Never!
8/23/2006 7:05:10 PM EDT
[#8]
never say never..... for long term storage, a little or a lot of grease inside and outside of a mag would not hurt.
8/24/2006 3:39:21 AM EDT
[#9]
I know a guy that has the neatest preservative system I have seen in a good while.
He has one of those heat sealing commercial bagging machines.  He casts bullets as a living and he takes his bullets and seals them in heavy plastic bags.  He says he has never had any oxidation or corrosion on anything.  I keep telling myself I need one of those outfits haha.

On my bullet molds when I get through casting I place them in a zip type plastic bag and they are stored in a outbuilding in 80% and better humidity.  Never had a spec of rust on one yet.  Lubing molds is a bear to get them going again but the sealed bags are neat.

Then again I have new GI mags still sealed in their bags for last 20 years and are perfect.  Since I have never been able to wear a GI AR mag out, no reason to open the rest of them.  I have mags I have used since 74 that are still going fine.  I think the sealed bags will last longer than I will.

Once had a SF type tell me they had numerous 20MM cans full of loaded magazines for AR in Europe back in cold war and they had been there for years.  All perfectly good.
8/24/2006 1:01:54 PM EDT
[#10]

Quoted:
never say never..... for long term storage, a little or a lot of grease inside and outside of a mag would not hurt.


Would not help an anodized GI mag with SST spring, either.
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