Can you wax a revolver?

[BobWright]

I have been using this product which has done very well in salt water and exposure tests.

https://www.eezox.com/

Unlike grease or motor oil you can use the gun without cleaning it off first.
It would be difficult to use a gun you are keeping for self defense when its covered with grease or motor oil and wrapped up.

EEZOX works.

As I stated, I use my "blend" of motor oil and wipe it down with an oily rag. This leaves a thin film of oil and is perfectly accessible for immediate use should the need arise. My daily carry gun is protected in this manner, and is in no way too slick for sudden involvement in social situations.

Bob Wright

 

[FlSwampRat]

I'v been using paste wax for years.

Yup!
I became aware of this product in basic training. I'm sure you can relate, Gunny.

 

[Speedo66]

Based on the tests shown, when my Eezox runs out, looks like it's going to be WD-40 Specialist Corrosion Inhibitor next.

 

[Jesse Heywood]

I'm interested in a lubricant for revolvers. According to the test, regular WD-40 is one of the best. I can see how WD-40 might produce less friction in a fidget spinner bearing, but I'm going to keep the thick axle grease I have in my 4x4's wheel bearings. Revolver actions? Lithium gun grease has a higher film strength but tends to collect contamination. A light, dried coat of Rem Oil probably has less film strength but won't collect as much grit. Since I clean and lube them often, I probably can't make a difference either way.

While you may not like it, Break-Free is one of the better lubes. Recommended by the Colt smith that is working on my 1892. He is one of the last smiths trained by Colt (around 1970), so I consider him to know what he is talking about. Avoid the lithium grease, it dries out over time. I just detailed an older revolver that had been lubed with lithium, took a lot of scrubbing. The Colt manuals recommend using oil lube sparingly for all places on their revolvers.

WD-40 is not a good lube. It is a mixture of paraffin and solvent. It was designed as a moisture displacement for aircraft, used mainly in wheel wells to work into crevices where corrosion was forming. Aluminum and water do not play well together. When WD-40 did not make it as a top qualifier, they went on a massive marketing campaign to sell to the public. And the rest is history.

 

[labnoti]

Thanks. I don't have anything against Break Free at all. In fact, it's what's in my revolver now. But I cannot say from personal experience that it's the best or even awesome. All I know is it hasn't failed. I wouldn't be concerned with grease drying out over time since I doubt it would be more than a few months before I was in there cleaning anyway. Similarly, if Break Free or Rem Oil are thin, it probably won't matter since I'd be in there reapplying it often enough. Because I use my gear often enough that I clean and lube it often, I just don't think I'd benefit much from some Wonderlube that you can apply one time and it goes forever. I mean, it's not like it's going to clean my gun one time and then my gun will always be clean after that no matter how much I use it.

I agree WD40 is not an appropriate lubricant. I was actually pointing out a good reason not to take the results of the published test very seriously because in fact WD-40 was ranked as the best lubricant -- indicating an obvious problem with the test method. Again, I even suggested that water might have been ranked higher by the test that was used to rank the lubricants.

 

[doubleh]

I started using Johnson's paste wax back in the sixties and haven't had any rust problems since.

 

[Gary A]

Another fan of Johnson’s Paste Wax here! Also like Ballistol and Boeshield T-9.