Steve in NC
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FYI. Do NOT use WD40 for long term firearms storage/protection. You will be paying someone to tear it completely apart to remove all the jelled “goop” so your trigger mechanism will work again.
I’d never use WD40 on any of my guns.FYI. Do NOT use WD40 for long term firearms storage/protection. You will be paying someone to tear it completely apart to remove all the jelled “goop” so your trigger mechanism will work again.
It works great to displace water after a good hot water rinse to neutralize parkerizing salts.I’d never use WD40 on any of my guns.
Maybe. But certainly not for routine cleaning and certainly not for long term storage.It works great to displace water after a good hot water rinse to neutralize parkerizing salts.
Reminds me of the ONE time I disassembled a Ruger Mark 2. This was before the prevalence of YouTube videos. Took me forever to get it back together.I had a friend that asked the same question, I told him especially if the shotgun went swimming.
Sure enough the next week while duck hunting the shotgun got fully immersed.
He showed up at my door 3 or 4 days later, he had dissembled the entire trigger group to the smallest parts and had a box of parts that took more than a week to figure out how to put them back together.
Weird, I still have a Remington 22 my father got me when I was 8, I'm 70 now, it still runs fine! It has been cleaned with the 'normal' stuff, Hoppes, etc. It has also been cleaned quite a bit with WD40. All my guns, I use WD40 as a cleaner, hose down everything, tooth brush, hose it down again, blow off with compressed air, oil and grease where needed. Hand guns, AR, shotty, they all work just fine. I've been a mechanic, machinist for my whole life. WD40 is just fine when used as intended.Don't use WD40 for long term storage or protection of small intricate parts assemblies!! It can and does gel up and stops things from working. Short term as in hours or a couple days is better than nothing. But do NOT let a forearm sit in storage with WD40 in it. At some point it will cease to operate.
Steve