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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    Weight is not apples to apples when you switch from a Rifle/A5 to a carbine system or vice versa.
    Understood. As far as my setup goes, I'm fairly happy with it, though obviously it lacks the versatility of something like an A5 setup.

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    I've run both H and H2 in my bcm 14.5" middy, they both work great.

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    I'm running a PWS H2 buffer in mine. It cycles everything I've put through it (Wolf, Brown Bear, PMC, Georgia Arms, Winchester, etc, etc).
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    I got a H buffer from BCM and a damage industry's Crome silicon carbine spring on a BCM 16" middy kmr and it runs great

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    Quote Originally Posted by evi1joe View Post
    I have a friend who bought FL about a year (two?) ago or whenever it was getting a lot of attention. He put it on his 1911s, glocks and ARs. I know some guns only get shot once a year, but for whatever reason he really hates the FL now--I have also read the bad press, but it mostly seemed related to cold weather or leaving it sitting on guns for a long time and getting tacky. I was going to ask him for his to try out, BUT I still haven't decided what I like better between SLIP EWL and FireClean.
    So far I really like both a lot--it may take a year or more to see if I prefer one over the other.
    The smoothest cycling AR I've ever handled was Vicker's new-ish BCM KMR. I really wish I'd checked his buffer and spring when I was on the range with it (and no one was around). He was selling FireClean, so I assume that's what was in it--but maybe not. Whatever it was, it felt like the BCG was gliding on ice.
    I tried Froglube. It just wasn't that impressive. Mainly, it turned to sludge, like you said if it set up a while it got sticky and was like old Elmer's glue. Charging a dirty weapon felt very "gritty". FIREClean is what I use now, and it alleviated all of that. I would not have believed it if I had not used it on my suppressed .22 pistol and seen how much smoother the slide was to rack after a few hundred rounds vs. another CLP I was testing. I thought the "melts carbon" junk was just BS, but it seems to work as advertised.

    As to buffers, I run an H buffer in my 16" middy (Daniel Defense). I also put H buffers in my friend's 16" middy PSA upper builds I helped buy for them. None of our weapons have ever malfunctioned (I am sure one day they will) that was not attributed to user error (friends are new to M4 platform, babied CH, not seated mag, etc.) All empties go to 3:30-4. Guns just chug along. Even suppressed, mine works fine. Cases kick out to 2:30-3, but hit a different part of the deflector. It doesn't feel violent to me nearly like my 10.5" gun does with the same can and an H2 or H3 buffer and Blue Sprinco. (I use white sprinco in the middy)

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    H buffer. Wouldn't mind trying an H2, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WS6 View Post
    I tried Froglube. It just wasn't that impressive. Mainly, it turned to sludge, like you said if it set up a while it got sticky and was like old Elmer's glue. Charging a dirty weapon felt very "gritty".
    Was this in cold weather? I've read a few posts like this but have never had any similar experience in the 2 or 3 years I've been running it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WS6 View Post
    I tried Froglube. It just wasn't that impressive. Mainly, it turned to sludge, like you said if it set up a while it got sticky and was like old Elmer's glue. Charging a dirty weapon felt very "gritty".

    Slip 2000 EWL is all I use. Doesn't get tacky and a few drops will spread out over everything.
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    All of my middies are 16" and they all use h-buffers with Wolff SP springs. After tweaking one that I built from scratch, they all run flawlessly and will eat anything I feed them. The others are all DD or BCM uppered, so that could have something to do with it.

    EDIT: I forgot to mention, since lube is being discussed, I just gave up the search for the grail lube and run Breakfree CLP in all of my guns.
    Last edited by Shao; 03-21-14 at 10:25.

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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    Was this in cold weather? I've read a few posts like this but have never had any similar experience in the 2 or 3 years I've been running it.
    This is an observation and not an attack - the people most satisfied with Froglube seem to be resident in Arizona or Florida. The people reporting problems seem to be in the upper midwest. I thought it was the best thing ever when I started using it in early summer 2012 and used it heavily through that fall. Having now used it in winter conditions (far more severe this year than last year) and seen what it turns into after sitting for 6+ months, I'm going back to any of various oils. After a while in storage it dries out and turns into a chalky soap sort of thing, that doesn't work well, at least when it isn't hot. Just like Shao said, I am also giving up the miracle-lube quest, and will be reverting to SLIP2000 and Weaponshield until I use up my supplies of each - which will probably take years. I'll probably keep using FL on a few guns that only get used in summer, and it also works great on door latch strike plates.
    Last edited by SomeOtherGuy; 03-21-14 at 22:06.
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