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    Default Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock

    Quote Originally Posted by SoldierMan View Post
    Good thinking, but I'm no where near a co op, so will go with the one I linked to earlier as I need some foam from them as well to waterproof my safe, so the R95 shipping should work out OK.
    Just realised that I have the answer in our plastic recycling bin. I use litres of this stuff


    Assuming it won't melt with my lubes, fitting a needle on the nozzle gives a squeeze bottle that I can meter and seal. The nozzle fits on any common plastic bottle thread.

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    Default Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock

    I use sewing machine oil. Comes standard with a nozzle. Jut make sure you don't cut it to short.

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    Default Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock

    A few drops and a earbud to spread it, also picks up the excess

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    Quote Originally Posted by qscwbt View Post
    Dunk it in parrafin. Rinse. Wipe down with gun oil. Grease the metal to metal parts
    This guy i think only uses a gun oil or is it a grease (Gun Butter) and not an oil and grease from what i've picked up.



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    I'm constantly amazed by the over complication of simple things. I have carried and regularly fired my old first series Sig Sauer P220 for 43 years. Dunno how much ammo but 30 - 40K would be a fair guess. Nothing ever broke and not a single malfunction. My only cleaning tools are a Parker Hale rod, jag and bronze brush. As I shoot cast bullets there's always some lead fouling - easily cleaned with two strokes of the brush dipped in solvent followed by a patch on the jag just for good measure. Powder fouling on the frame around the feed ramp and on the breech face cleaned with a wet patch applied with finger tip. Same for guide rails on frame and slide, then wiped dry. For lubrication a light coat of sewing machine oil on the guide rails applied with a lightly oily patch then wiped off to leave just a thin coat. Some people drown their guns in oil - it's counter productive. Finally I wipe the frame and slide with an oily patch and wipe off. The oil penetrates the metal slightly and greatly improves rust resistance. Generally I clean my guns in that way after each range session, but if I don't see the range for a couple of months I clean the gun every month. But I have to apply an extra treatment in hot weather - I found that carrying next to my skin in hot weather causes rust on the left back end of the slide, that being the part in contact with my skin. I found that cleaning the sweat off that portion every evening with thinner followed by the wipe on oil treatment prevented rust. You don't want thick oil on a firearm - you want light machine oil ie sewing machine oil. I clean out my barrels and everything else with paint thinner. For those who don't know Hoppes No 9 is odourless paint thinner with banana oil added to give it its distinctive smell. Why pay for that when hardware store paint thinner is the same thing with a different smell? Bores and chambers should be left completely dry. So, simple tools, simple solvent and oil, simple methods. I clean my Sig in five minutes. My S&W rollie takes a bit longer for obvious reasons. My 43 year old well used Sig runs like a Swiss sewing machine and is as good as new except for some external cosmetic wear.

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    Default Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock

    Sir, out of interest, would that be the P220 with the heel release?

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    Default Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock

    Hoppes No.9 is mostly kerosene, ethanol and propanol and a bunch of other components. The banana smell is amyl acetate which is sometimes called banana oil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oafpatroll View Post
    Just realised that I have the answer in our plastic recycling bin. I use litres of this stuffAssuming it won't melt with my lubes, fitting a needle on the nozzle gives a squeeze bottle that I can meter and seal. The nozzle fits on any common plastic bottle thread.
    Gives new meaning to a "hot weapon"

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    Default Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock

    Quote Originally Posted by Springer View Post
    Gives new meaning to a "hot weapon"
    The nozzle turned out to be more bother than it was worth. A toothpick dipped into lanolin grease for rails etc and ATF/paraffin for internals works better.

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