Looking for help preventing rust and pitting and such with long term storage of guns and their magazines. What works? Oil? Grease? What brands does everyone use? Are there any good rust removers that won't harm the metal?
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Some time in the last, I'll say two years, someone on this Board did a pretty comprehensive bit of testing. The results were surprising, as I recall: a number of "name" products fared poorly, and one (RIG?) stood out. But don't trust my memory; see if you can find the thread.
http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=22692Here are the results after 18 days:
Clean
Valvoline Synthetic CV Grease
Very Lightly Spotted
Hoppe's #9 cleaner
10W30 motor oil
Lightly Spotted
BreakFree CLP
Zero Friction Lube
Spotted
TopSaver
MP-7 Gun Cleaner
Heavily Spotted
Paste Wax
STP Silicon lube spray
Rusted
Hoppe's Lubricating Oil
Birchwood-Casey PermaBlue
PermaBlue w/ Hoppe's Lubricating Oil
none (control)
It's been 1 month for this test. I'm going to declare it complete. Here are the final test results
Very Lightly Spotted
Valvoline Synthetic CV Grease
Lightly Spotted
White Lithium Grease
Spotted
Weapon Shield
AMSOil Metal Protector-Heavy Duty
WD40
Heavily Spotted
Hoppe's #9 cleaner
Zero Friction Lube
MP-7 Gun Oil
Dextron III
BoeShield T9
Blaster Corrosion-Stop
Very Heavily Spotted
ATF +3
Rusted
Rust Free
Otis CLP
none (control)
check out this test:
http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/GunTech/NewsletterArchive.aspx?p=0&t=1&i=503
WD40 ??? Whooda thunk?