White lithium grease does help to remove some of the "twang" sound from the buffer spring when the weapon cycles.
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White lithium grease does help to remove some of the "twang" sound from the buffer spring when the weapon cycles.
Well, not that anyone was holding their breath on this, but I spoke to the guy who ran the malfing KAC...
According to him the action improved after lubing the buffer tube, but it didn't switch immediately to a 100% gun, as I recalled. I thought all his problems went away at that point, but they were only reduced.
However the gun was a "parts gun" assembled in Canada to get around import/export issues that were common at the time, I believe. So KAC is maybe not entirely to blame for that set of issues.
Additionally, there was apparently some sort of crusted silvery goop inside the tube when it was cleaned...so the lubing may have been less important than cleaning out the guck.
Full disclosure: I'm the editor of Calibre Magazine, which is Canada's gun magazine. In the past I've done consulting work for different manufacturers and OEM suppliers, but not currently. M4C's disclosure policy doesn't seem to cover me but we do have advertisers, although I don't handle that side of things and in general I do not know who is paying us at any given time.
If you pack the RE and spring with cosmoline it's much quieter!![]()
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No need. Clean out the RE and wipe down the buffer and spring. I guess if you wanted to, you could do the wipe down with a mildly oily rag for peace of mind/corrosion purposes.
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Well, my new DMR assembly (PSA A2 RE and Magpul PRS) sounds like someone is smacking the back of a guitar after every shot, and poorly tuned I might add. It is lubed with white lithium grease. Not gritty when charging anymore, just the twang when fired. It's actually getting kind of amusing.
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Maybe I'm old fashioned, or many of you on here have far more experience with military small arms than I do ( it is the Internet after all ) but I lubricate my weapon- particularly if I want it to work when my life is on the line
If you do or not frankly I don't care- as along as I don't have you as a teammate in a gunfight you can do whatever you want
We as human beings have known since man has been putting two pieces of metal in close contact with each other that dead dinosaur juice helps those metal parts function properly; with the advent of the Internet and thousands of keyboard commandos weighing in with their vast experience we somehow feel like that has changed
Drive on - do whatever the **** you want.....
LAV out
Light coat of oil on the action spring and buffer, just like I do all other metal-metal contact surfaces (except the BCG, which gets a heavy coat if I'm shooting) in my weapon.
It's not so much to catch crud in your weapon as it is to prevent corrosion.
I'm just an old 11B so what do I know? I learned to clean my M-16 on Sand Hill with a guy in a funny hat yelling at me. I read all this info about how to clean and lube an AR, and the parts look the same, so somewhere in the back of my head, the voices of Drill Sergeant Lopez and Payne (yeah, I had a DI named Payne, and he did his best to live up to that) cry out to me.
"There's carbon on the firing pin." "You didn't lube the bolt and springs." "What the F***, rock?" You know, pleasant memories.
Back in those days, CLP meant easier cleaning later. So, I CLP'd the hell out of Cindy (amazing how I remember my DI's and rifle's names). I lubed everything, 'cause it made it easier to clean, especially after using those darned blanks. If it was inside the rifle, I lubed it. Not too heavy, mind you, but I lubed it. Today, I figure it's metal moving against metal, so lube would have to be a good thing.
I went shooting the other day, I didn't clean and lube my rifle. When I opened the safe, I could smell the dirty weapon. I dropped and gave myself fifty.
Maybe some folks are equating "lubrication" with "drowning in oil"...? I've always applied a light coat of oil to the buffer and spring. This thread reminds me of how many motorcycle riders never lubricate the chain.
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