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SirDrinksAlot posted:Should be careful with Simple green on aluminum, it is safe to use on it if you completely wash it all away afterwards. I know they say it's safe on aluminum and aircraft, but at every unit I have ever been at we did not use simple green because it seemed to corrode the aircraft in hard to reach spots. Yeah, I should have specified that any time I use Simple Green for cleaning guns, I flush the dickens out of the parts with clean water afterward, then hand-dry, and then usually bake at low temperature in the oven just to be sure. And then I go back and lubricate/reassemble.
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I like turtles posted:Do not use food oils like olive or sesame, for one they'll gum up, and more importantly they'll go rancid and smell horrible. Whale oil is an awesome lubricant for low-tolerance mechanic stuff. Your Singer will never sing as sweetly as it will with a few drops of Neptune's own love lube.
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There are many different "varieties" of silicone based oils/greases. This short blurb will attempt to address the critical facets and characteristics. For the record, I am a synthetic organic chemist by training with 5+ years of industry experience. First and foremost, all of you should become familiar with the Sigma-Aldrich website. I will borrow from them: Silicone Oil Now, understand that there are differences amongst silicone oils. All you need to concern yourself with is the viscosity indexing. Silicone oil ranges from 20 cSt (25 °C) to 10000 cSt (25 °C). More viscosity translates to a thicker, less fluid oil. A nice, albeit brief overview of siloxane vs. hydrocarbon oils can be found here Hexanes can also be found on the Sigma-Aldrich website: Hexanes (95% Anhydrous) MSDS for Hexanes is a moot point. It is one of the safest solvents to use in the laboratory (considering health, environment, physical properties, etc.) Simply wearing neoprene gloves or nitrile gloves will provide adequate protection (I assume you have the good sense to wear gloves when cleaning your firearms...). Hexanes are biodegradable and the dirty rinsing (i.e. the collected gunk) can be dropped off at pep-boys etc for recycling. A materials safety data sheet MSDS for hexanes is provided here Only caveat with working with hexanes is the volatility. Don't use much. Don't have an open flame source nearby. Hexanes won't auto-ignite for a simple task such as cleaning a firearm. Either way, the autoignition point of hexanes would be a moot point: don't smoke or have an open flame, work in a well ventilated area and use hexane solvent sparingly.
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Ramivacation posted:Hey guys. I was directed here from a thread in the CC board. I'll just repost what I asked there. You should get a Flint/Wheel lock pistol and go to England and shoot at a castle FOR SCIENCE!  Edit: It would probably be dependent on the type of the stone, angle of impact, mass of the ball and the velocity.
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widefault posted:Safe should be when the lever is towards the back, and it should say "SUR" Fire is forwards, with "FEU" Thanks for the info, buddy!
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Sjurygg posted:Whale oil is an awesome lubricant for low-tolerance mechanic stuff. Your Singer will never sing as sweetly as it will with a few drops of Neptune's own love lube. Whale fact: Differential fluid used to have whale sperm in it to thicken it. 
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How exactly do I use "buckhorn" style sights?
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Frog Lube, Ballistol are "green" supposedly. The smell is a major plus, Frog Lube smells awesome. The Frog Lube works really nice in my G32C and pretty well in my Sig P220. My Springfield 1911 TRP seems indifferent to it so far. This is just judging my the smoothness of the slides compared to other lube. The TRP is tight no matter what I lube it with. I really need to put more ammo through that.
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lilspooky posted:How exactly do I use "buckhorn" style sights? There should be a small sight notch at the bottom of the U, the horns are I think just for show and helping you get centered.
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Ah ha! Thanks hardinge, I was thinking those might the spot to put the bead but wasn't sure.
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Damnit, almost had a good hit at an estate sale put on by some landlords. Found a pile of holsters in the corner labeled "gun holders" and delicately mentioned "Say, I collect firearms, did you happen to find any handguns or rifles when you were clearing up?" "No, we hauled about 7000lbs of paper out of here and found some pawn receipts for the guns, but we also found a CCW permit and gun cleaning stuff. Sorry" They were still selling his massive collection of bisexual porn VHS tapes and a penis pump "vitality enhancer" kit,
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I like turtles posted:so it wasn't all for
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for all insensitive porpoises
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Irregardless of you're attempt at trolling, he should of used the right word, its' irritating.
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Cmon guys don't loose you're cool
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You could of said that in a nicer way.
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Wierdos.
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I hate you all.
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thermobollocks posted:I hate you all. Don't you mean "y'all"?
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Smiling Jack posted:Don't you mean "y'all"? More like y'alluns.
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thermobollocks posted:More like y'alluns. loving Pennsylvania.
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bunnielab posted:In the tiny amounts of gun oil or cleaner you would use, it would be pretty pointless to bother looking for something "green". A quart of ATF and a small tub of white lithium grease could literally last you a lifetime if you don't just glop it on there. For cleaning you can use alcohol if you don't mind having to do some scrubbing. Well it was more of a question of "Can I just make something / use something at home?" I was kind of wondering recently what people were using in say the 1800's, or did they just have to get new guns quite often ?
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bear fat and boiling water?
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Plasma1010 posted:Well it was more of a question of "Can I just make something / use something at home?" The type of cleaning products required for black power flintlocks are quite a bit different than that required for a modern smokeless powder semi-automatic rifle (or even a smokeless powder single shot shotgun), so that's kind of a poor reference point to use for comparison. By the time smokeless powder/more modern firearms were a thing (a little before the turn of the century) the chemical industry was far enough advanced that people wouldn't have messed around with "natural" products or whatever.
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thermobollocks posted:More like y'alluns. Proper form is "all y'all".
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It's y'all homo's. This is TFR after all.
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Plasma1010 posted:Well it was more of a question of "Can I just make something / use something at home?" I recall some mentions of ash or soap, which basically do the same thing. The ash containing lye which then turns the lard remains to soap. If you need to do something by yourself give Ed's red a go http://www.frfrogspad.com/homemade.htm Mind you that you might experience some staining if you get it all over the wooden stock and so on. And as iyaayas01 mentions, times and cartridges are different. I don't think that anybody in the 19th century had to clean plastic wad fouling from their scattergun.
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beta posted:Lard and water. http://thefiringline.com/forums/sho...86&postcount=14 Alright thanks for all the info guys !
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Plasma1010 posted:Alright thanks for all the info guys ! Let us know how it goes. I've always figured that the amount of oil involved with cleaning guns is so small as to have no substantial effects, but I would love to hear what alternatives are possible.
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Chantilly Say posted:Let us know how it goes. I've always figured that the amount of oil involved with cleaning guns is so small as to have no substantial effects, but I would love to hear what alternatives are possible. Gunzilla. 
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My little brother is about to turn 21, is not (otherwise) a prohibited possessor, and wants to buy a handgun with which to go shooting. He lives at college (where guns are illegal on campus), or with my parents during breaks (who are pretty strongly anti-gun). The best solution we can come up with is that his gun would live in my gun closet. I have a state carry permit, which means I don't get NCIC'd when I buy a gun. How should we go about the transfer? a)We could 4473 it to me originally, with the understanding that, when he gets his own place, I will private-party-transfer it to him. b)We could 4473 it to me originally, with the understanding that, when he gets his own place, we'll go down to the range and they'll 4473 it to him. c)We could 4473 it to him originally, and it would just live in a locked box in my gun closet until he gets his own place. d)Something else
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C is the best option. A and B are straw purchases. This assumes no additional weirdo state laws.
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I like turtles posted:C is the best option. A and B are straw purchases. Yes, if you phrase it that way, the only legal purchase is C.
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His money, his name, his gun, his 4470. His locked box in your closet is fine.
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look who just circled me on G+ https://plus.google.com/109329953074698454446/posts
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Gtab posted:look who just circled me on G+ https://plus.google.com/109329953074698454446/posts hahahahahahaha
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iyaayas01 posted:loving Pennsylvania. Yinz gee'chet? I just rit up my room so I was headed dahntahn to Primani's. I hate this place.
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DakianDelomast posted:Yinz gee'chet? I just rit up my room so I was headed dahntahn to Primani's.
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Pitch posted:Well that's ridiculous. "Gee'chet" already contains a contraction of "yinz". I just tried coming up with a credible grammatic reason why the two words weren't in contradiction but instead I'll just say Pittsburghese is dumb.
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DakianDelomast posted:Yinz gee'chet? I just rit up my room so I was headed dahntahn to Primani's. I've lived in PA all my life and spent some time out deep in the dutchie country and I've never, ever heard anything like this.
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