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Thanks, Ken.

Lemme roll this dead horse over for another beating. Rich Cole on grease:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6hNjXfDPwXM

Thanks Gil. This is such a no-brainer subject. Your post gives great clarity to doing what anyone with an ounce of double gun care should know from day one.
JR

Oh boy... now we'll have someone asking where they could buy one of those small containers of Cole Grease, as was used in the video.

Since we can be fairly confident this guy does not operate an oil refinery, it is almost certainly a brand name commercial grease, bought in bulk drums, and repackaged into little jars. Add a drop of motor oil and you could even call it a secret proprietary blend.

It looks remarkably like Mobil 1 synthetic grease, but only your tribologist would know for sure...

He should’ve ended the video with something like this: “if you didn’t already know this, get a ball peen hammer and hit yourself in the head because you’re a retard”.

Cole was careful to say "any grease" can be used.
Not accusing anyone mentioned here of doing this, but I, too, wonder if any “specialty” gun products are simply a repackaging of a lubricant also used in other fields under a different label. Decades ago, there was a belief that some products sold as a silicone based dry fly floatant were a woman’s beauty product (Albolene make-up removal) repackaged as fly floatant, but at higher price per oz. Gil

Did anybody catch the brand name of the old toothbrush he was using? Gotta’ be like Cole’s no?

Back in the day, the oil additive package that went into Havoline motor oil was head and shoulders above what went into just about anything else. This was understood in the industry, and a different company quietly bought just the additive package to use themselves. If you ever saw, or, purchased STP motor oil treatment, that is what you were buying, the straight up Havoline additive package from their motor oil, sans motor oil.

Repackaging has been a thing for a long time.

Best,
Ted

The sad truth is that the people who sell certain products, count on the people who buy those products, not knowing a whole lot about them. The wood finishing industry counts on it. I seriously doubt all these reloading companies have labs cooking up bullet and case sizing lubes, as Gil said.

Tim

Geez. some guys posted over a half a dozen times on hinge pin grease. I guess it is just a sandbox. Once you have read gunman's post, all should have gone to something else.

Guy. Singular. One guy posted 6 times.

Best,
Ted