A little story about lubrication.

[SaltyNC]

I keep hearing slippery, slick surface, but that Colt Rail Gun and Rifle bolt were genuinely sticky. I could almost hold it under my finger like that polygrip commercial for them false choppers, the plastic real looking ones, not the wooden ones like George Washington had.

That is just wild, Bawanna. I really appreciate you sharing your experiences with it. I'm just sorry to hear another negative story with Frog Lube. I've never experienced anything like that. Ya'll were using the solid type of Frog Lube, right? That's what I use.

Salty

[Bawanna]

Maybe we didn't clean well enough before the first application and it reacted badly.

[340pd]

The Frog Lube controversy has been around for a long time. If applied properly it does work well. I have been using it for a a couple of years on my revolvers and my poly framed guns. I started using it because of the odors and staining that transferred to clothing from my carry guns. I am very careful not to mix it with any other products. I am diligent in making sure it is all wiped off. It is easy to give my revolvers the once over with a heat gun followed with a quick wipe down just to insure there is no remaining residue. My Froglubed guns are much easier to clean after a range session.
The agencies in our training facility went to Froglube a couple of years ago and have since returned to conventional lubes. Armorers like the look of heavy lube on their guns and never understood how to use the Froglube product. Many cops just tend to hurry through the cleaning process and most never really grasped the concept anyway. One quick look in the cleaning room and I saw them mixing solvent, grease, and Froglube all on the same Glock. Trouble waiting to happen.

I don't recommend or endorse the product, it just gives me the results I am looking for.

[Bawanna]

I suspect your onto something with the mixing and matching. And apparently wiping off all the excess if important, more important than I thought.

Your right about watching cops clean their guns. I don't enjoy it much. Some of course are quite diligent and thorough, others not so much.

This is evident by those that can take 2 hours to clean a gun and others are done in 10 minutes.

Also hard to keep proper cleaning stuff on hand for them (one of my jobs). And they are hard on stuff. Instructor asked to borrow my 45 bore brush that I've used for probably 10 years. In 10 minutes he brought it back and I threw it in the trash, I don't know what he did with it but had to be more than swabbing out a Glock barrel.

[CPTKILLER]

I've never used it either. It is for sale at the local cop shop in Austin. Therefore it is being used by LEOs here.

[gb6491]

Maybe we didn't clean well enough before the first application and it reacted badly.

Applied as per their instructions, Frog Glue didn't work for me on a cold AZ morning quail hunt. The walk back to my Jeep and that I once again had a repeating arm after slapping some 10W30 on my 11-48 left me with no motivation to continue the use of FL. I didn't do any special cleaning at the Jeep, just pulled the dipstick and dripped oil into the action. Perhaps there are lubes that FL interacts badly with, but that wasn't my experience with motor oil.
However, to each his own.
Regards,
Greg

[skiflydive]

So as I mentioned previously, I lubed my Kahrs with a light application of Hoppes. Since it's apparently harmful to nickel plating I'm wondering about the wisdom of even doing that.

[Bawanna]

I've used mostly Hoppes on my Kahrs, I use it sparingly on all guns, don't soak them in it or anything like that.

I consider it a solvent and wipe it all off and then oil with something else.

I've not seen any evidence of issues to be concerned about.

[marshal kane]

So as I mentioned previously, I lubed my Kahrs with a light application of Hoppes. Since it's apparently harmful to nickel plating I'm wondering about the wisdom of even doing that.

I have a two-tone P9 barrel caused by leaving the chamber end of my barrel to soak for ten minutes or so in a jar of Hoppe's. Bad mojo! Don't soak nickel plated parts in Hoppe's. A wipe-on/wipe-off will not likely hurt but use your own judgement. The Hoppe's label even warns of it attacking nickel but it's in fine print which I failed to read because I was too lazy to go get my reading glasses. I still occasionally swab out the bore with Hoppe's but no more soaking! The damage is mostly cosmetic but still a reminder of the dangers in NOT carefully reading labels.

[AIRret]

I've used mostly Hoppes on my Kahrs, I use it sparingly on all guns, don't soak them in it or anything like that.

I consider it a solvent and wipe it all off and then oil with something else.

I've not seen any evidence of issues to be concerned about.

+1 On that. We use hoppes and wipe it off have have never had any damage!

[johnatw]

Has anybody used Blu or Black Diamond products? The Blu is advertised to remove rust.