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  • RED
    Very Senior Member - OFC
    • Aug 2009
    • 11689

    #1

    More about WD-40

    It has a long history of not being kind to guns. I agree but have experienced good things when used on some guns. I was at a machine gun shoot in Hot Springs Ark. and the guys next to me were shooting a WWI French Chauchat machine gun. It would hang up and not extract the fired case.

    The next day the gun performed excellently while being doused with WD40 while firing!

    Recently I got good results by spraying my sub sonic .22LR lightly before loading in the TX22 magazines. It is much easier to do that than extreme clean the gun!

    JMHO
  • PWC
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2009
    • 1366

    #2
    Rem oil spray...light spray on M1 and 1911 just before sustained shooting

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    • k arga
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2009
      • 565

      #3
      i think that gun needed a lubed feeding system

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      • JimF
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2009
        • 1179

        #4
        I no longer allow WD near my guns.
        Years ago, I used it on my M1 . . . .and it gummed up the rear sight adjustments . . . . . .turning to a “tar-like” substance that made it impossible to turn the knobs!

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        • lyman
          Administrator - OFC
          • Aug 2009
          • 11269

          #5
          that Chauchat could have been doused with any lube and run better,

          no to the WD,


          kroil
          clp
          ballistol

          all you need

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          • tmark
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2009
            • 1900

            #6
            I use WD-40 to unloosen frozen bolts and screws.

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            • PWC
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2009
              • 1366

              #7
              Just for grins and giggles....

              Unloosen = tighten

              Untighten = loosen

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              • Oyaji
                Very Senior Member - OFC
                • Oct 2009
                • 4372

                #8
                Originally posted by tmark
                I use WD-40 to unloosen frozen bolts and screws.
                Originally posted by PWC
                Just for grins and giggles....

                Unloosen = tighten

                Untighten = loosen

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