Oil Supplied With Dan Wesson Firearms

[Al]

Originally Posted By: john_pifer

It doesn't have a needle on it. And from what I've been taught, you really don't want to get oil down into the tiny small areas where it can't be cleaned out without disassembly.

I think a needle is good if you know what you are doing. You can put the most minute amount on parts without the whole drop running off and going down to Never-Never-Land.

Perfect for the rails.

 

[billt460]

Originally Posted By: john_pifer
It's clearly motor oil, and some on the Dan Wesson section of 1911forum.com didn't like me pointing that out. They closed the thread:

https://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=530809


The 1911 forum can get a little "pimpy" at times. Don't take it too hard. Much like ARFCOM, several of those guys are, "legends in their own minds", so to speak. As far as what's in the bottle, it doesn't really matter. A gun manufacturer can recommend whatever lubricant they want. They're the ones building the weapon. Actually, it was nice they gave you something. Few manufacturers do.

It's not like a car where your warranty might be jeopardized if you have an internal failure, and the oil in the crankcase was not the specification the factory recommends. With guns you can use pretty much anything. The only thing I would stay away from with firearms lubricants are the ones made from bio degradable plant esters. Frog Lube and Fireclean fit into these categories. Will they hurt your gun? Most likely not. It's just with so many better lubricants, (of which motor oil is one of many), why bother with what are basically food products?

 

[ironman_gq]

Motor oil works just fine, used it for years. Wouldn't surprise me if most of the stuff they sell as gun oil is a basic 30wt without much of an additive package. Huge profit margin for them, they buy in bulk for roughly $1/gq and sell it for $5-7/oz

 

[FastGame]

Originally Posted By: billt460
Originally Posted By: john_pifer
It's clearly motor oil, and some on the Dan Wesson section of 1911forum.com didn't like me pointing that out. They closed the thread:

https://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=530809
The only thing I would stay away from with firearms lubricants are the ones made from bio degradable plant esters. Frog Lube and Fireclean fit into these categories. Will they hurt your gun? Most likely not. It's just with so many better lubricants, (of which motor oil is one of many), why bother with what are basically food products?


You have no clue what Frog lube really is and what http://www.tracklubeplus.com/ was designed for. Guess people lives are in danger from such [censored] lubes. If I still lived in Arizona I couldn't think of a better lube than Frog fraud (forum parrots term) for my guns, doesn't work so well in Michigan’s cold weather.

Anyhoo it's a gun and it doesn't take Roller Coaster science to figure out lubes

 

[billt460]

Originally Posted By: FastGame
You have no clue what Frog lube really is and what http://www.tracklubeplus.com/ was designed for.


I'll go way out on a limb and say, the furthest thing on their minds when they designed it was guns. But if it floats your boat, slather it on.