lube for the slide rails

Dave Waits · #1 10-08-2011, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by BadOscar

Dave,
Where do you get your plastilube? It looks like it comes in different grades or thicknesses. Are you using the thinnest "0" grade stuff?

Alex, you see it all the time at Gunshows and probably don't realize it. Almost all the tables that sell American Milsurp parts have a box containing little clear tubs with yellow caps full of brown grease. Usually two for a dollar, that's Plastilube! Three dollars worth will last a year or so!

Sheepdog · #2 10-08-2011, 08:34 PM

I am going to give it a try. I have never heard of it. Thanks Dave

AutoMag · #3 10-08-2011, 11:05 PM

You can also try Brian Enos's Slide-Glide, great stuff if I do say so myself!!!

AutoMag · #4 10-08-2011, 11:13 PM

I forgot to mention that MILITEC-1 is an excellent choice also, man how did I forget that one!!!!!

DrHenley · #5 10-09-2011, 02:26 PM

How is the plastilube in cold weather?

I had Wilson Slide Grease on my DW Panther and in a IDPA match on a cold winter morning, the slide slowed down so much you could watch it cycle. I had to wipe all the grease off between stages to get the thing running again.

Now I put a thin coat of grease, and then top it off with a couple of drops of RemOil in the grooves. I'm still not 100% happy with it but it hasn't jammed in months.

Dave Waits · #6 10-09-2011, 06:56 PM

Doc, I use it in both my Garands and my 1911s,even in the Winter I've never had any problems with it and I live in Ohio.

svandamme · #7 10-12-2011, 04:09 PM

i owed you guys some pics and results on the coating.

Well, it looked nice when freshly applied, but as some of you predicted, it didn't last.

+100 rounds, and after a quick clean (still wet with ballistoil)

On the side rails the coating is completely gone, i think the oil dissolved the coating...
Oh well, nothing lost, just some time...