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Over the last year or so my AR15 has become AR15's. I had no issues using slide glide on the 556's, anywhere and everywhere. Never had an issue and clean up was easy. Now, I'm pretty sure I wont be using slide glide on my AR's but I also have a quantity of TW25b. So my question is, can I use TW25b on the rails and locking lugs of the AR15? I am looking for an easy answer to keep my go two AR's lubricated yet ready for use without having to constantly re-lube. Thank You. the hudge | ||
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Slip 2000 Extreme Weapons Grease. One tub will last years. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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I personally don't think I'd be greasing the bolt lugs, but I've used it and all sorts of different grease on the carrier including slide glide and can't remember ever having a problem. Even at well below freezing. But that's shooting the gun. The only time I don't use grease it when I'm hunting... where the gun may be sitting unfired in sub freezing temps for a week. Plus there's the smell.  _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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I grease up the recoil spring, (makes it quiet) and CLP the rest, I have used grease on the rails of the carrier, but did not notice that it worked any better or worse than using CLP, https://www.chesterfieldarmament.com/ | |||
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| Freethinker |
I have issued TW-25B to many officers for their handguns and when asked confirmed that they could use it on their ARs as well. I use another Mil-Comm product on my rifles, and there are countless other good gun lubes, but I wouldn’t hesitate to use TW-25B. ► 6.4/93.6 “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” — Plato | |||
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I use shooters choice or some white lithium grease I got form wel known smith on the corners of the cam pin, bolt stem and "rails". Slip 2000 EWG on the rest. ________________________________ | |||
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I used it for a while some time back but found it was separating in the syringe type applicator. It was a problem for the stock on the shelf at the Pro Shop so they started to recommend other lybe types. I myself use the Slip2000 EWL oil. | |||
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I guess the nucleus of my question is the locking lugs. If I were only to put on a light coating of said grease on the lugs would that have a negative effect on the function of the gun? These are go to guns, not range toys. | |||
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I use the black lithium type grease on my duty Colt AR15 11.5” Commando for years with no issues. Where I work it gets over a 100• with high humidity and in the winter it gets -30. Never had an issue. On my personal retro early slabside M16 copy I have used Lubriplate that I use in my Garands and M1 Carbines with no issues. I prefer grease over oil. | |||
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I used TW25 Grease on the lugs and locking recesses of my AR’s for years. ZERO malfunctions. I prefer Slip 2000 now but would use TW25 any time I didn’t have Slip 2000 available....... Remember, this is all supposed to be for fun................... | |||
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Thank you. | |||
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Old Air Cavalryman |
I agree. I personally am not crazy about lubing the bolt lugs either, but whatever floats your boat, OP. While I've used TW25 on aircraft machine guns, ( rifles and pistols in a pinch ) I feel it's a little on the thin side. Plus, with TW25 separating over time and needing to be remixed periodically, I was always a tad bit dubious of it. I've been using Slide Glide ( lite ) in all of my semi-auto firearms, ( ARs, AKs, M1As, Benelli shotguns and all manner of pistols, ) for about the last dozen plus years. Select fire and semi.. from the hot humid South, to the negative temp winters of northern NY, to Iraq and Afghanistan.. Slide Glide works and works well. "Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying who shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me." | |||
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Chilihead and Barbeque Aficionado |
Another vote for Slip 2000 EWL. Not too thick, not too thin. Stays where you put it. Slide Glide Lite would be my next choice. Great lube. I use TW-25B to lube pistol fire control action parts, but I have no other use for the stuff. _________________________ 2nd Amendment Defender The Second Amendment is not about hunting or sport shooting. | |||
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| Member |
No Lubing at all on the lugs? So run the bolt lugs dry? | |||
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| "Member" |
I just keep them lightly oiled like any other metal surface inside or out. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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| Member |
I used to use grease but now I just spray with Ballistol and shoot. | |||
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| Freethinker |
Why would we do that? I lube the locking lugs of all my other rifles and my Benelli shotgun. There's a lot of high pressure friction involved when they cam into place and I cannot imagine why no lube would be appropriate. ► 6.4/93.6 “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” — Plato | |||
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Go Vols! |
I put a dab of Rig +P on the four corner areas of the carrier. The rest just gets CLP or FP10. | |||
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Going off memory, unlubed bolt lugs causes excess wear and rotational force. Which causes premature bolt failure and cracking. I always lube the contact surfaces of my bolt with a little grease. ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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The cake is a lie! |
I was told that Slip2000 EWL 30 will stay put even through long-term storage upright. | |||
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