Interesting gun oil "study"

[Ghost31415]

Stumbled upon this comparison someone did comparing 46 different oils and lubes. I thought it was neat and I thought I would share. TL;DR Of the 46 tested, Frog Lube was the winner based on "tests" for lubrication, corrosion prevention, and odor.

I studied as a mechanical engineer and I didn't find any glaring faults with this person's setup other than perhaps wondering how consistent he was when applying the oil, cleaning, sanding, etc. However, the two topics the OP didn't test for, are durability and temperature effects. I almost want to create an account over there to give him my idea on how to durability.

Anyways, I'm a complete newbie to firearms and gun oils, so I wanted Calgun's opinion on this but from a shooters' perspective.

[Loubot10]

Man!

That test and report it's.......a hell of a thing.

[kcstott]

You'll see this stuff with automotive motor oil, Dirt bike oils, and the like.

One conclusion i always come to is the majority of the oils do their job just fine. Some high end wizzbang product usually fail and some rise to the top.

it's has been and always will bet the gun oil is is the fastest way to make a buck in this industry. go get some good base stock, have the formulators blend in some AW and EP additives and then market the hell out of your $.20 per ounce oil and sell it for $2 an ounce.

Easy money

For what guns do the amount of cyclical friction involved, exposure to corrosion etc plain old sewing machine oil or Turbine oil works just fine.

Automotive oil is a different story and thats where you see synthetics shine

Then there is gear oil. Worm drive gear boxes will die a quick but pain full death if a conventional oil is used. If high viscosity synthetics can be used first shot the gear oil never needs to be changed ever.

The actual amount of friction and force on the majority of firearms is pretty low and a very basic oil will do the job.

[Mr. Gillious]

I think that's a stupid test. If I would do a gun oil test I'd lube up guns and shoot them. my test would consist of using different types of guns. I would just use semi autos however like a glock 17, sig 226, hk usp, and 1911 and maybe a couple others. I'd shoot them in the heat, in the cold, in the water, after long periods of sitting in a safe or buried, and drag them from a truck trailing thru dirt. I'd also do an ammo torture test. I can't believe "odor" was part of the test.

[sd_shooter]

I studied as a mechanical engineer and I didn't find any glaring faults with this person's setup other than perhaps wondering how consistent he was when applying the oil, cleaning, sanding, etc.

Did you finish engineering or did you end up in business school?

One of things he included is Hoppes solvent! It wins the odor test, I'm sure.

[Ghost31415]

Did you finish engineering or did you end up in business school?

BS and MS in ME from a top 10 engineering school, then went into technical sales because the job market wasn't doing so well.

[Jimi Jah]

He missed Slip 2K EWL and 30 wt. EWL and Fireclean, two of the most respected lubes.

Also, too much rust testing, no one that takes care of their firearms allows rust to form. Maybe that's important to protect those rustbucket cars out in the field.

Then, no temperature testing, strange since this is an AK post where it's below zero a good part of the year. If that was done, frog lube would have failed.

[kcstott]

He missed Slip 2K EWL and 30 wt. EWL and Fireclean, two of the most respected trendy lubes.

Fixed that for ya

Also, too much rust testing, no one that takes care of their firearms allows rust to form. Maybe that's important to protect those rustbucket cars out in the field.

and thats why which gun oil you use don't mean a damn thing. Guns are not allowed to get dirty enough to worry about.

Guys go to the range and put one or two boxes through their gun and then go home and clean it like they just shot 10K rounds. civilian weapon for the most part are neglected sometimes but they are not abused and are usually well taken care of.

So when the oil gets to sit on the weapon in use for all of a few minutes what the point. You could lube it with lard and it would work fine

[bigcalidave]

That is all true KC.

Only reason I use froglube over the others is it smells good and doesn't stain clothing, plus I have some. I just keep my guns sloppy wet with it and never really clean anything.