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Rohrbaugh Products and Accessories => Cleaning and Maintenance of the R-9 => Topic started by: HiQ on March 20, 2008, 01:31:11 PM
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Howdy all,
First I should thank y'all for the excellent participation and contribution of wisdom that the members of the R9 community share on this forum. As a new owner I greatly appreciate this Rohrbaugh "family".
My question is in regards to lubricants for the R9. As far as I know the official recommendation from Rohrbaugh is to use a grease lubricant exclusively (although Kwesi may be able to correct me here). That said during Q2/3 of last year there was a smattering of threads suggesting other oil/TFT based lubricants and there seemed to be an implication that such treatments were under consideration by Rohrbaugh. I am very interested to know if anyone has knowledge of a change in official lubricant policy (never thought I would type that phrase) or if y'all have any particular products you strongly recommend.
Mobile 1, Miltec-1, Superlube, RZ-50, TW-25, Hornady one-shot, Tetra-grease, Eezox, Slide-glide and Ballistoil have all been suggested. Add to this something of a debate over teflon-based lubes and it may benefit us all to find consensus (or at least a "commonly-accepted" list if this is a personal preference decision). Are others sufficiently interested in this topic to create a survey? I believe this is possible in the forum - my apologies to the webmaster if not - in which case I can setup such a survey through another method.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
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I personally prefer/use Brownell's 'Action Magic'....basically molybdenum disulfide grease....a little goes a long way.
My $.02
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HiQ:
Welcome to the Forum!
There are a number of excellent gun lubrication products now available. My personal preference is Ballistol:
http://www.ballistol.com/
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welcome HiQ, enjoy the forum and post often. Tom
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HiQ,
Welcome to the forum!!
I personally still use a touch of Superlube on a few spots,and then a light coat of BF CLP..I have a lot of this,and it seems to work as well for me as the "early" recommended Mobile 1..
Any well made lube,appropriately applied,should work fine on the pup!!
Once again,Welcome.. :)
Brenden
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Thanks all for the feedback and the warm welcomes. It seems I have a few lubricants to try.
It seems that just as it is the quality of the shooter that ultimately determines a pistol's accuracy, it is the shooter's cleaning discipline that determines a lubricant's performance.
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Welcome, I'm with Richard on the Ballistol !
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+1 for Ballistol. And I also still use SuperLube.
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Being very new to firearms I wanted to be sure I didn't do it wrong, so I follow this.
http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/rohrbaugh/basefile/r9-lube.htm
Welcome to the forum.
Rick
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Rick,
In case you did not see the "latest lube" part in the link.
It is here Latest Recommended (http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/rohrbaugh/basefile/takedown-pic.htm)
Any good lube used properly should work!! 8)
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Brenden, Thanks for the link. Is there an advantage to using oil over the Super Lube? I use a horsehair brush to put a thin coat just like the pictures and the gun seems happy with it, but if there is a better way I'm all ears.
Rick
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While I was cleaning a lower class firearm today I pulled out
a can of Eezox and noticed that it is quite a "rust prevent-
ative" by its own admission. I coated a higher class pistol
with it and was quite pleased to see this additional benefit.
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i just got my R9 i ran 25 rounds threw it tonight and then cleaned and lubed it with Miltec-1 followed the directions relubed it and now it should be good for 2000 rounds until the next relube
i also use weapon shield on my other weapons which i really like
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+1 on EEZOX. Works great for more than guns...including pesky door locks and ink-stained cargo shorts. :)
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+1 on EEZOX. Works great for more than guns...including pesky door locks and ink-stained cargo shorts. :)
EEZOX works for me. I also started to experiment with Nanolube recently and that seems to work real well. 8)