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Old 10-09-2011, 03:26 PM
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How is the plastilube in cold weather?

I had Wilson Slide Grease on my DW Panther and in a IDPA match on a cold winter morning, the slide slowed down so much you could watch it cycle. I had to wipe all the grease off between stages to get the thing running again.

Now I put a thin coat of grease, and then top it off with a couple of drops of RemOil in the grooves. I'm still not 100% happy with it but it hasn't jammed in months.
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Old 10-09-2011, 07:56 PM
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Doc, I use it in both my Garands and my 1911s,even in the Winter I've never had any problems with it and I live in Ohio.
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Old 10-12-2011, 05:09 PM
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i owed you guys some pics and results on the coating.




Well, it looked nice when freshly applied, but as some of you predicted, it didn't last.

+100 rounds, and after a quick clean (still wet with ballistoil)




On the side rails the coating is completely gone, i think the oil dissolved the coating...
Oh well, nothing lost, just some time...
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Old 10-12-2011, 10:32 PM
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That's the problem with coatings, the oil didn't dissolve it, it wore off. Unless you do something like the Teflon treatments they used to do where they induce a vacuum and the coating enters the pores of the steel and embeds, it will wear off.
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pretty sure it dissolved, because if it wore off, it would not be uniform gone ..
there would be "some" coating left in there would be traces left.. More so, because most of it went even before i went to the range... When i was dry firing i could see the black stuff come out with the oil at the back of the rails... near the hammer.
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Old 10-13-2011, 08:28 PM
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I've never used the Molykote spray but have used their high temp silicon bearing grease on my Springfield 1911 one day when I was doing a LOT of shooting (my usual drink is Militec-1 oil). The Molykote stayed in, didn't melt down and everything worked. The Militec-1 is a great oil, and they also have a grease I have not tried, but my thought was a grease for all-day shooting might be better.

Why the Molykote silicon bearing grease? The very unscientific answer is simple: I had some on the shelf!
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