Well, I had been reading about Frog Lube for a couple of months and just a while back it showed up in threads on the "big forum". It seemed like the Frog Lube threads went down hill quick with bickering, as a lot of threads do, so I thought I would post my progress and future updates here for you guys/gals instead of in the "Lions Den".
I'll start by saying that for the past couple of years I have been using FP-10 on all of my pistols. It did what it was supposed to and I have no complaints.
I did have an incident with my CBOB back in the early spring. I was at the range one day and had my slide sieze up on me. It freaked me out a little because I always have a lot of lube on my rails. I always make sure my pistols aren't dry before I shoot them. I diagnosed (opinion only) that my pistol was fitted so tight that the rails were "plowing" the lube off the pistol. It was during an extended shooting session and I didn't think (yeah, I know, there's my mistake right there!) to stop and re-lube.
I had another forum member guide me through and help me loosen my slide to frame fit
with files and stones
. I cleaned the pistol very well, re-lubed and shot it. Absolutely no "damage" to accuracy, at least in my hands. Still VERY accurate shooter.
So, that's one of the reasons I went for the Frog Lube. You can read some of it's lubrication claims (some of them seem like an infomercial, a la Billy Mays). I'ts not supposed to "dry up" like oil will. I know, I could use grease.
First pistol I used it on was my Springfield GI.
You're supposed to clean the pistol of Petro based products before applying the Frog Lube and warm the metal. So, I detail stripped it, used non-chlorinated brake cleaner on it and set it out in the sun. It got warm alright!
When I applied the FL (I'm getting tired of typing "frog lube"), the parkerizing soaked it up like a sponge. I did all of the small parts too. Followed the directions to a "T".
I shot 300 rounds through it the next day without any problems and cleaning afterwards consisted of just wiping the gun down with the towel they send with the kit. I was impressed. Sorry didn't get any pictures.
I figured since it worked good on the GI, I would try it on the CBOB.
Again, I detail stripped it, brake cleaner-ed it, and set it in the sun to bake. I'll just say now that the stainless parts got much hotter in the sun
I shot the CBOB two days ago with the new FL on it and it worked great. Clean up was a breeze too.
I decided to use it on my Delta Elite too so today I did the strip and clean but it was cloudy here so I put all of the parts on a cookie sheet and put them in the oven. 170 degrees is as low as my electric oven will go and yeah, they come out hotter than you want to touch
Like I said I'm pretty happy with the new "wonder lube" so far. I'm hoping it does as well as advertised on rust prevention because I have a bunch of places on the GI where the parkerizing is worn off and my frame tangs are bare metal after I filed them down for the new beavertail. I'll let y'all know how things go and I'll try to remember to take "dirty" pictures and update with good, bad, or ugly developments.
Take care,
Terry