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Posted: 10/10/2011 1:32:51 PM EDT
| Buddy gave me a bottle. Is it worth using on an AR or should I toss it for some clp? Just seems thin and soaks into to bolt an dissapears, or is that ok? |
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RemOil is good for cleaning an wiping stuff down if you don't want a lingering coat left behind. Teflon blah blah blah, it drys up real fast. I use it to clean with and have in the past to lube with, BreakFree is better, don't bother lubing with RemOil.
I will hit some long springs with it as the spray pattern is wide and coats well. Like action springs in ARs and magazine tube springs in shotguns but that is about it. Will use it on the externals to clean them up and it drys and blam, clean gun. |
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Don't rely on it to protect from rust in storage. Learned that the hard way. Good for a quick cleaning/ wipe down though. +1 Put a 870 shotgun away coated in Rem Oil once for the winter. Summer came around and there was a light coating of rust on the barrel. Cleaned rust off with tooth brush and Break Free CLP. Used BF CLP since. In fact I use the spray CLP on everything now (Hinges, bike chains, door latches). Rem-Oil reminds me of WD-40 |
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i keep a can or two around for use in my hunting rifles/ shotguns. I keep my guns in a climate controlled safe, so rust isnt an issue and I dont see the need to use Weapons Sheild on a lever action 30-30. What difference does it make? A gun is a gun. But to each his own. |
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Quoted: Because a semi-auto rifle or pistol sees many more times the wear of a manually operated weapon. When i shoot my hunting firearms, its just a few rounds a year and spraying remoil in the action is fast and easy and gives it as much lube as it will need for the little bit i used them. Lubes like Weapons Sheild are thick and in most cases, the gun must be stripped to get the lube to the spot it needs to be and then the excess wiped off. Quoted: i keep a can or two around for use in my hunting rifles/ shotguns. I keep my guns in a climate controlled safe, so rust isnt an issue and I dont see the need to use Weapons Sheild on a lever action 30-30. What difference does it make? A gun is a gun. But to each his own. |
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Buddy gave me a bottle. Is it worth using on an AR or should I toss it for some clp? Just seems thin and soaks into to bolt an dissapears, or is that ok? No. It is like WD-40 with Teflon added. Very thin, evaporates fast, and protects against rust about as well as a light brushing with salt-water. |
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There is a tread around here that had a comparo of multiple lubes and protectants in multiple environments. There was only one tested product that formed a worse layer of rust than the control piece that wasn't treated at all.
Care to guess what the product was? |
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Buddy gave me a bottle. Is it worth using on an AR or should I toss it for some clp? Just seems thin and soaks into to bolt an dissapears, or is that ok? Scud03, I've used Rem Oil before and it's an extremly light oil to use on certain parts but not all. Unless you have allot you'd have to practically soak the carrier in Rem Oil so the parkerizing would soak it all up and hold it. For those parts I'd might consider using a dry lube also made by Remington. That might work better. Impala |
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Use the product for the job it was intended. Rem Oil is an outstanding product for hunting rifles that are fired maybe 200 rounds per year using high-quality ammo and for which great care is taken to keep them clean and dry. I would NOT recommend lubing up an AR with Rem Oil before heading to the range to blow through 300 rounds of Brown Bear. Well, not unless you enjoy cleaning your AR as much as you do shooting it. |
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