Originally Posted By: Triple_Se7en
Motor oil and ATF smell horrid indoors and rust prevention is very questionable. I would never put either in my guns.
If one spends on-average $500 for his pistol, what's $100 for a lifetime of gun store top-shelf cleaner and lubricant/preservative added? Most of us only shopot a handful of magazines each years anyways. No, I'm not talking about cops here and their need to shoot bi-weekly. I'm talking the 99% Average Joe pistol,owner, not the 1% that come here every-other-day, or other forums on guns.
The store cleaners and lubricants/preservatives are what we-all should be using, unless one is unemployed and rubbing two nickels together via welfare / government assistance.
Virgin motor oil IMO has almost no smell. What has a pretty foul smell is Ballistol, and that stuff is safe enough to put on a cut.
Originally Posted By: Astro14
In 1990, I bought my first gun, a S&W 5906.
I went to the Navy Exchange and bought a small (2oz) bottle of gun oil.
I finished up that bottle two years ago. A moment of reminiscing as I looked at the faded price tag ($0.98) and realized when I had purchased it.
Used properly (a drop in each place that the manufacturer recommends in the manual), gun oil lasts a very, very long time.
2oz of gun oil in ~26 years, you must shoot VERY rarely.
Originally Posted By: Triple_Se7en
Exactly!
There is product out there today that's completely safe to breath and touch, without any foul chemical smell and having high flashpoint.
Keep the motor oil and Hoppes #9 away from guns and all the toxicity of body contact with both very popular products. Just begin today by saying "No More". Our health deserves better treatment than those two products.
I've been using Hoppe's #9 since I was a kid. Hoppe's #9 has probably cleaned more guns that all other cleaners combined(for civilians), I know the military used CLP.
This thread is obviously not going as expected.