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April 9, 2025
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Fellows. I posted a tip that was expensive for me to learn. I own no stock in the product I recommend. I have no financial interest in the product. I figured I was doing this group a favor? Then Bert sends me a massage that he wants me to post before and after photo’s of the results. Like I am selling something or lying. I don’t care if you try it or not, but it should be you that make that decision.. He probably won’t post this message either? He is impugning my integrity. I fought for this country. I am not a liar. It cost me to belong to this forum. It was not free. You members never have to worry about me telling you anything positive or anything at all, I really question belonging to an organization that is afraid their members will be swindled by a jar of stock restore.
April 15, 2005
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Fellows. I posted a tip that was expensive for me to learn. I own no stock in the product I recommend. I have no financial interest in the product. I figured I was doing this group a favor? Then Bert sends me a massage that he wants me to post before and after photo’s of the results. Like I am selling something or lying. I don’t care if you try it or not, but it should be you that make that decision.. He probably won’t post this message either? He is impugning my integrity. I fought for this country. I am not a liar. It cost me to belong to this forum. It was not free. You members never have to worry about me telling you anything positive or anything at all, I really question belonging to an organization that is afraid their members will be swindled by a jar of stock restore.
Sorry, but you have grossly misinterpreted the intent of my reply to your posted message, and you have apparently taken unnecessary umbrage. My suggestion for you is to not take everything so serious.
Bert – USN Retired
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November 7, 2015
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Lin Speed has been around quite a while, seems to be linseed oil with very efficient dryers. I’d like to see the pics too but I only do oil finish repairs on rare occasion and haven’t tried this product yet.
Mike
January 20, 2023
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As Mike says, Lin-Speed has been around at least as far back as the Nineteen Fifties. I recall Jack O’Connor referring to it in one of his columns on stock finishing. We know “boiled” linseed oil is linseed oil with metallic dryers added to cut down the time between coats of an oil finish. Lin-Speed was advertised as the gunsmith’s friend for that reason.
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"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
February 26, 2021
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TXGunNut said
Lin Speed has been around quite a while, seems to be linseed oil with very efficient dryers. I’d like to see the pics too but I only do oil finish repairs on rare occasion and haven’t tried this product yet.
Mike
I’m glad this topic came up. Several years ago I was given a box of “gun stuff” from the wife of a man who had died back in the 1980s. In the box were a few things that I had never seen before… Linspeed being one of them. I wondered if any of the stuff was still being made. Maybe some may recognize this stuff.
March 15, 2020
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I have used Lin-Speed for 50+ years. I get it from Brownells ( much more than $1.98) I hand rub 3 or 4 coats. This leave a shiny finish which I don’t want. I lightly steel wool last coat 0000. Wipe down and wax with plain old JOHNSONS paste wax & leaves the exact finish I like. This is not for metal.
Further, I will not tolerate nasty remarks from mean old Bert.
December 13, 2006
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I’m old enough to remember buying and using those small glass jars of Linspeed (by Geo Brothers?)
Never fully “remedied” the way to STOP the metal jar cap from “glueing” itself to the glass!
After pouring a TINY amount into a Dixie cup for use, I’d carefully wipe the threaded portion of both glass and top . . . .and sometimes the two would STILL glue themselves together! (Once I even reverted to coating the threads with GREASE!)
Also . . .I’d be sure to INVERT the jar for storage after the first usage! . . . Air in a “partial” jar was a no-no!
Nowadays, it’s BLO (many coats) for me!
January 8, 2025
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TXGunNut said
Lin Speed has been around quite a while, seems to be linseed oil with very efficient dryers. I’d like to see the pics too but I only do oil finish repairs on rare occasion and haven’t tried this product yet.
Mike
I’m glad this topic came up. Several years ago I was given a box of “gun stuff” from the wife of a man who had died back in the 1980s. In the box were a few things that I had never seen before… Linspeed being one of them. I wondered if any of the stuff was still being made. Maybe some may recognize this stuff.
I also have a drawer full of things like that i inherited. I use it as necessary. It’s all probably from the 80-90s too
February 17, 2026
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Bert is really a great help. His knowledge is unequaled. It is nice to have pictures. I know one board I go to has a message you can add that says: “THIS POST IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT PICTURES!” He obviously just wanted to see results. Good luck.
February 17, 2022
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Fellows. I posted a tip that was expensive for me to learn. I own no stock in the product I recommend. I have no financial interest in the product. I figured I was doing this group a favor? Then Bert sends me a massage that he wants me to post before and after photo’s of the results. Like I am selling something or lying. I don’t care if you try it or not, but it should be you that make that decision.. He probably won’t post this message either? He is impugning my integrity. I fought for this country. I am not a liar. It cost me to belong to this forum. It was not free. You members never have to worry about me telling you anything positive or anything at all, I really question belonging to an organization that is afraid their members will be swindled by a jar of stock restore.
Sorry, but you have grossly misinterpreted the intent of my reply to your posted message, and you have apparently taken unnecessary umbrage. My suggestion for you is to not take everything so serious.
Bert – USN Retired
What was it that SGT Hulka said, hmm, Oh right, settle down Francis. Bert likes proof thats all, we all do.
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