Good mixture of oil for AR-15

[Guest gts]

12oz. Mobile 1 synthetic 0-40w mixed with 4oz Mobile 1 synthetic ATF

Breaking in a new AR-15, completely flawless first 100 rounds. This mixture was shared with me by a friend, bigtime AR fan, says the ATF keeps carbon build up down to minimum. So far I agree.

Anyone else making their concoction for firearm lube?

[Westwindmike]

Google "Ed's Red". Sounds like you have a "lite" version of that. I went to high temp wheel bearing grease on all my AR's. Won't get thin and burn off in a really hot gun during mag dumps.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Why the ATF in it? I was guessing Mobil One zero weight

would be good by itself? Don't know, just asking.

[Dolomite_supafly]

ATF will thin the mixture.

It also is considered a detergent type lubricant so it will loosen certain crud like a solvent.

I made a batch similar to this last year and it works well.

Dolomite

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Oh, okay!

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Dunno much about rifles (or anything else for that matter).

The biggest I have are small-- a MSAR STG-556 and a .223 pistol and Beretta 9mm Storm Rifle.

Hardly ever run more than 100 rounds without cleaning. Have been lubing them with pretty thin stuff, CLP or Rem Oil. Is that bad? Do they need thicker lube? The gun manuals say to run em pretty dry, but I probably wet em more than the manual says.

[Westwindmike]

Every AR I've ever seen, ran better wet than dry. But, if you are only shooting 100 rounds between cleanings, it probably doesn't matter that much.

[Guest gts]

The friend that turned me onto this mixture said he goes three hundreds without a single problem on a regular basis.

[Ropin4gold]

I run MIL-TEC and then spray with rem oil. Ran a carbine instructor course @ 600 rds per day between cleanings with no problems.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Thanks all for the great info.

Is MIL-TEC the same as MILITEC-1 by Adaptive Molecular Technologies Inc?

Got a 4 oz bottle of that a long time ago, and still have about an oz left. It is supposed to penetrate the top layer of the metal rather than lube as such, and there are lots of good reports on the web.

Quit using it years back because didn't know for sure if it was doing anything. Didn't want to wear the slide, and felt more certain with something actually slick-feeling like CLP or Rem Oil.

The MILITEC-1 just didn't feel like an oil, didn't feel particularly slick, and after it soaks in couldn't tell the difference by look or feel, between non-lubed-dry and MILITEC-1 lubed.

That is an interesting idea of using the MILITEC-1 and then putting a teflon lube over it.

[crashgordan]

thanks for the recipe!

using Slik2000. amazing stuff. all of it.

[50 cal]

I just run plain old Break Free in mine. Give it a spray before shooting and forget about it. Haven't cleaned either of the M4geries in about 2000 rounds through either one.

One of them has a TNW piston kit in it and runs lime a champ.

[Mike]

I run the cheap red grease form walmart in mine. Went 2600ish rounds before needing to relube. Poured 90w gear oil on the bcg and put it back in continued to run. now in the 57-5800 rd range and no problems.

Direct impingement Daniel Defense M4

My SBR piston AR is at 4k no relube still running like a champ.

[Guest benroe]

this is good to know. I have just been spraying mine with remoil after I shoot.