[Jack Monteith]

I'm more than a little rusty on petroleum science, but grease is oil and a soap thickener. I'm not saying that you can mix your favourite gun or motor oil and a bar of Ivory and get a usable grease.

Keep the linseed oil out of the lockwork, or old Betsy will be seized solid. Oil based paints are mostly linseed oil and pigment. As a retired flaxseed grower I can tell you a few horror stories about it.

Bye
Jack

 

[Jack Monteith]

Hi, Gents:
Here's more than most will ever need to know about petroleum based greases. Mr. Fennell is blowing his own horn, but there's no doubt that lithium based greases have replaced the other types in most applications.
I've been using FP-10 gun oil for half a year now and so far I'm quite satisfied with it, as a lube, cleaner and rust preventive. It doesn't replace the nitro solvents as a quick cleaner, but it will loosen up the stuff that's in the pores of the metal. So a patch run the next day isn't as clean as you'd expect if you'd just used solvent. It's compatible with black powder. FP-10 isn't compatible with some industrial greases, so clean off the grease before you try FP-10.

http://www.fp10.com/techinfo.html

Bye
Jack