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- From: rmorrow@afit.af.mil (Robert K Morrow)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: airgun lubricant
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.145219.12427@afit.af.mil>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:17:41 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Dec22.051147.13545@nuscc.nus.sg> elekokws@nusunix1.nus.sg (Kok Wai Sung) writes:
- #
- #A RWS catalog should be helpful in locating a suitable lubricant
- #for airgun. Although I don't remember the seal needing any.
- #In fact, if I remember it right, one is not suppose to oil the
- #seal.
- #An airgun needs very little lubricant in normal usage, just one
- #or two drops of oil on the main spring should be sufficient.
- #
- #By the way, don't use any penetrating oil ( like CLP ) on a
- #airgun, if they get to the seal, you will have to replace the
- #seal.
- #
- Airgun lube is a special "anti-dieseling" oil that won't ignite under
- the high cylinder pressures when a spring piston airgun is fired.
- You're asking for trouble if you use any other type of oil.
- World Class Airguns (317-897-5548), for example, could provide more info.
-
- Bob Morrow
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