TR said
  It seems like every gun show I go to at least one guy or his guns stink. Is that Ballistal or bad hygiene? T/R
  

Cold blue also stinks to high heaven.

Of all the different gun cleaning and preserving products and the many different odors that emit, my favorite smell is the old original Hoppe's #9.  It brings back many fond memories of being a young fellow in my grandfather's gun room.

Bert

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steve004 said
Great Thread - thanks for starting it Tony!
  

Agreed. I know almost all gasoline for a given area comes from the same terminal, the only difference is the additives. If most gun oils are based on mineral oil I have to wonder what benefits we can expect to derive from the additives and which ones are marketing tools. It's quite possible the mineral oil is a carrier for the additives that do what we expect a good gun oil to do. I'm not a chemical engineer but I drove by a Holiday Inn Express this week.
 
Mike
  

You're Welcome Steve,

As I'm just trying to add in as many positive ways that I can think of, as you do, and many others here, also do!

You cracked me up Mike as I read the end of you're post! Good One!

Tony

steve004 said
I assume the barrel this rifle originally was manufactured with was not in .50 caliber?  If not, I would expect a person would need to do what Winchester had to do to their rifles to make a .50 caliber cartridge feed through a Model 1886 action.  It was more than one modification needed to the action and if memory serves me, there was a modification to the end of the magazine tube needed as well.
  

Yes Steve you are correct. There were 7 tolerance cuts made to fit the big 50's. I like to call them the 7 magic cuts.

TXGunNut said

steve004 said
Great Thread - thanks for starting it Tony!
  

Agreed. I know almost all gasoline for a given area comes from the same terminal, the only difference is the additives. If most gun oils are based on mineral oil I have to wonder what benefits we can expect to derive from the additives and which ones are marketing tools. It's quite possible the mineral oil is a carrier for the additives that do what we expect a good gun oil to do. I'm not a chemical engineer but I drove by a Holiday Inn Express this week.
 
Mike
  

A lot of truth to that.  My family and I worked in the oil/gas business.  There is a lot of trading between the companies. My Dad would get 5 gal cans of gas from different companies and run it through the lab at Chevron/Standard Oil where he worked.  After analysis it was supposed to get poured into a sump.  Many cans somehow got to our house.  He would tell me I could have half if I poured the other half into his truck.  I would check the lab results and the higher octane with the least amount of bottom settlement and water went into my car.  "BS" and W.  White gas worked real well in our camping equipment. 

steve004 said
Great Thread - thanks for starting it Tony!
  

Agreed. I know almost all gasoline for a given area comes from the same terminal, the only difference is the additives. If most gun oils are based on mineral oil I have to wonder what benefits we can expect to derive from the additives and which ones are marketing tools. It's quite possible the mineral oil is a carrier for the additives that do what we expect a good gun oil to do. I'm not a chemical engineer but I drove by a Holiday Inn Express this week.

Mike

That was disclosed in the video, but it's a good reminder. Like a few have said, the WD-40, can be used for different things as many have mentioned, but not for some of our guns, as some others like to do. But because of that water displacement factor that is claimed, we use it for various non important projects to do just that.

Tony

Well in Bert’s case I guess they just turned the sub upside down a few times. -World Traveler

I taught my brother that trick when his deer lease had a bumper crop of puddles and some canals formerly known as roads. His old Jeep did fine until it didn't. WD-40 got it going again. They got really good and un-sticking hunting vehicles that year, even got to use my bucket full of transport chain a time or two. WD-40 is great stuff, just not for guns.

Mike

Jeremy P said
I've found the Ballistol works well as wife repellant too, she doesn't visit the gun room much when I have that stuff sprayin'!
  

LOL!

Mine hates any chemical smell or petroleum based lubricants, along with many of the associated smells that can go along with the repairs we sometimes make along the way to our firearms and similar repairs involving the many hobbies we seem to stay busy with. Hence the exhaust fan, and oh yeah, 44 years of marriage!

Tony