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I live on an island with severe salt water weather.. everything rusts, and I mean everything.. I think even plastic parts rust here. But stuff I use straight balistol on, doesn’t rust. I go through bottles of it... it is Alaska tuff. And when folks get mad at me, I just spray a little on them, and it removes rusty crusty attitudes as well.. I just use it.
Marko
I can tell you an interesting story about Baillistol! I do a lot of 18th Century gun work. Not my favorite thing but I Slow Cold brown a lot of barrels in the past. There is always a problem of stopping the browning action ( something I am used to ) However one of the last browning jobs I did I decided to try Balistol after a caustic wash and Oiling proved it was unable to neutralize the acid browning solution....ballistol stopped it dead! Leading me to believe that it neutralizes acids!
Just my 2 cents
I use watered down Ballistol for a dry patch lube and for cleaning BP fouling.
I don’t like the odour, I wish the manufacturer would make a de-odourized version or at least don’t compound the odour problem by adding perfume scent.
Diesel exhaust is America's perfume!
You apparently do not get it that not everyone lives in southern Arizona. At the typical relative humidity in Arizona there is very little corrosion even when NO corrosion preventing product is used. The same thing happens in my house where the air conditioner keeps the relative humidity low. You could move to the Gulf Coast and your statements would not be accurate. They are certainly not accurate for people living in a more corrosive climate than Arizona. Attributing the lack of rust to Ballistol when you live in a low humidity environment is misleading. The US Government has long use the salt fog test as a way to determine corrosion resistance for military hardware including firearms, air craft and other military hardware.
Why don't you just admit that you live in southern Arizona where there is almost no rust even when no Ballistol is used? You characterize the environmental tests as of no value when your own statements are of little value to people that live along the Gulf of Mexico or near any marine environment. You have no good way to predict the performance of Ballistol in a high humidity environment if you do not use it or test it in that environment. If you want a reasonable assessment of rust preventing properties don't ask someone that lives where there is low relative humidity.
I use it on anything made of metal and as a personal lubricant. [smilie=l:
Love the stuff! When I got my new Ruger SRH .44, talk about gritty trigger pull. Yanked it all apart, like you’re supposed to do with a new gun. Cleaned it and sprayed trigger group down real nice with Ballistol. Let it soak for a while and wiped away excess. I added a smidge of Mil-Comm grease to the sear and put it back together. Night and day difference. I use it on about everything.
I cant imagine how the smell of Balistol is offensive to someone. It doesn't smell like fresh baked bread sure , but to actually be concerned about the smell of it seems a bit dramatic doesn't it ?
Like hot sauce I put that stuff on everything but I’m Greek and love the licorice smell, reminds me of ouzo opa
The smell reminds me more of my grandkids puke! But Ballistol is good stuff.
It could keep an MG 42 running @ about 1200 rounds per minute so it has to be good stuff!
I like it.
I read somewhere that you shouldn't mix Balistol with oil products, anyone else see this?
Been using it for 30 years on BP cartridge and smokeless firearms. (Clean BP with plain water, follow with Ballistol) Most of that in the Tidewater VA area until I retired from the USN. It works. 10 years on a MAS 1873, no rust. Might not be the best, probably not the worst. But it works, and does not eat my leather slings. If you like black licorice, the smell won't bother you.
There's enough stuff out there that everyone can have their favorites. Never can understand the rancor.
I used Frog Lube until I found out it gums up and renders your gun useless. Ballistol cleaned up the Frog Lube with ease and is now my go to cleaner and lube. I have a can in each vehicle, range bag, garage, house, tool box, gun tool box. It has replaced WD40 in my house.
Hexane is another readily absorbed by the body. I used a ton of it when I worked in the lab.
Back when RCBS made their first pump spray case lube they cut the lanolin with hexane. I knew it the instant I sprayed it on the casings. I got the demo bottle before it was on the market when I called for parts when I screwed up resizing 7.62 NATO machine gun brass.
I think they almost immediately changed the product to an alcohol carrier. Much safer.
I try to wear the nitrile gloves but old habits are what they are. I am consistently inconsistent..
I love fresh baked bread but really don’t like when the whole house smells of it. Yes I bake my own bread now and again.
I do not like the taste of black licorice so it doesn’t smell good to me either. Browning had a canned gun lube back in the nineties. I bought a couple cans in a blow out bin. It smelled horrible. I gave it away.