RIG Grease No Longer Available

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RIG Grease NO longer going to be available.

This off another forum.

" The manufacture is evidently dropping this product from their line up. The company was bought out and operations transfered overseas from what I can deduce. Midway is out and will not accept any more orders, Brownell's for the time being is accepting orders for back order. The lady I spoke with said they should be getting around 440 units in by late September and then they show no more. Two other distributors told me they cannot get any more deliveries as well. "


http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpa...leitemid=567717









http://www.shotgunsportsmagazine.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=14_27

RIG Universal Grease - 1 oz. - WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!
Silencio's RIG Universal Grease has been resisting rust and providing protection for guns since 1935. We have bought out the remaining inventory, and... $3.00

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RIG Universal Grease - 3.75 oz. - WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!
Silencio's RIG Universal Grease has been resisting rust and providing protection for guns since 1935. We have bought out the remaining inventory, and
:eek:
 
*very sad*

I was born in the mid 50's and RIG was another of the How raised - what you do.

RIG has protected so many guns, in so many climates all over the world.

RIG +P, is the high pressure grease that allowed the early stainless guns to run, as the metallurgy was not figured out yet.
Blue semi-autos did not have a problem, stainless ones were galling, and RIG+P was recommended by the mfg, and shooters in general.
Later the metallurgy was figured out, and galling problems ceased.

Hinge Pins on break open shotguns, are another use for this high pressure grease.

We have lost another part of Americana. *sad*


Folks, go find some RIG, RIG +P, and any of the RIG products from gun kits, to gun oil to RIG-Rags, and hold onto to them.
Their bore cleaner was one of the best!

Put these back for your kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews.
Some things in life one must preserve and pass onto future generations.


I'd snag a bunch of Hoppe's No.9 and Lubricating oil while I was at it too...we never know...

*sniff*
 
We've still got "STOS" otherwise known as "Slicker Than Owl Stuff" where stuff is a nicer word that I substituted.....made by Ponsness Warren
 
i just noticed i was out of rig too any needed to pick up more had to order 4 of the big bottles to make sure i have enough stocked up
 
It's alway been around our house. I've got a tube from the 40s which my father bought. I was just getting ready to buy a couple of tubs.

Looks like it's Hoppes grease now.

Sad, very sad.
 
Not only that, but Outers has discontinued GunSlick grease too!

I've never found anything better for trigger jobs & action work.

rcmodel
 
STOS is very very good!

This is another product I have been using forever and highly recommend.

RIG and RIG+P are great, but being honest, they never had the Fun and Gun Club Pranks attached to them as STOS has, and continues to have.

You cannot get a bathroom door turned once a itty bitty dab of STOS has been applied to a door knob.
The cashier at the gun club cannot ring up as sale, if a dab is applied to hand crank...
Oh the scorekeepers cannot write scores on a Tote-Board if the Sharpie Markers "somehow" got a dab of STOS on them.

Ah yes...STOS and I go w-a-y back, yes indeed!

*snicker*
 
RIG was a "breakthrough" in its day, but better products have eclipsed it. Try Brian Enos' "Slide Glide" or Tetra to name a couple off the top of my head. The last jar of RIG I got years ago is confined to refreshing my "RIG rags" to wipe down my guns after handling and returning to the safe.

--wally.
 
:mad:

Well heck.

Okay, my first reaction was to jump in the car and drive to the gun store. Instead, I found a site and ordered 5 big jars and a new Rig Rag.

Just in case they don't have any RIG (although the site says they have 1000 in stock), I ordered some STOS, a syringe of STOS and some Krieghoff Gun Glide.

John
 
I have a small tub of RIG grease and agree it's great stuff. It will probably take me 10 years to use what I have up as I hardly need any to do the job.

Still, I'll see if I can stock up soon.
 
"Bought 5 small jars and 3 more RIG Rags"

If you haven't tried it, a capfull of "WOOLITE® For All Delicates" (the stuff for hand washing sweaters and such) in a small pail will clean up a dirty Rig Rag. You can shake most of the water out of it and let it air dry.

John
 
I've got a bunch of it. What I don't have a lot of is RIG #2. It was the only thing I could count on to clean my guns indoors without stinking everybody out, that is until Hoppe's Elite came out. RIG 2 always had a pleasant smell. Worked incredibly, also.
 
with both RIG and Gunslick gone...

that tells me that the market probably couldn't support that many greases. Probably not enough guys greasing the rails of their 1911s, probably a lot of people just running their glocks and such no a good dose of gunoil for the rails, or no thought to lubing the rails at all.

I think you all are doing it backwards. No amount of buying RIG will bring it back, instead, buy up the product of the guys still selling it so they keep on selling it, and start preaching 'lube the rails with grease not oil'

I didn't know to lube the rails with grease not oil until I came here
 
Lube with grease not oil? Every new manufactured gun I bought says use oil, not grease.

With the exception of my M1 Garand, all my rifles/pistols use/receive oil.
 
Well, there's heavy nasty thick grease and then there's the lighter stuff that about the consistency of Cool Whip or yogurt. Take a look at Wilson Combat's offerings -

www.wilsoncombat.com/a_ultimalube.asp

They have oil, they have #361 which is fairly light grease and the have #418 Universal which is somewhere in the middle.

I've used these on slides, as well as Tetra, TW-25B, Shooter's Choice red grease and about everything else I've run across. When I can't find anything else to spend money on at a show or gun shop I buy some lube to try. I probably have 3 shoeboxes full of half-used containers. You know, I'm not sure any of them are really better than the white lithium grease I used for 20 years - you know, the stuff you grease the car door hinges and hood latch with. :)

I use RIG mostly to wipe down the outside of my guns and to coat the bore for storage, but it works on the inside too. Oh, and I use RIG+P on my stainless Kimber slide. I figure that old jar will last forever.

John
 
Wow..................I didn't know what I was missing. Been in the shooting sport for decades now, carried as a law dog for 30 years and fellas...........I have never heard of this stuff...................Have I been culturely deprived or just asleep.................Hum, even checked with one of my buddies still on the force as a Firearms instructor and he asked "whats the name of this super juice"

Oh welll,,,,,,,,,,,,,if youse guys are gonna miss it then I guess so long to good stuff.

Maybe I shouldn't post this just so the world doesn't know how deprived I was......;)
 
grease

I was at trhe Knob creek machine gun shoot years ago and a rep from Tetra was there with free little tubes of tetra gun grease and tetra gun oil. when I got home I tryed it made me a believer out of me. Its great!
 
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