How do you lubricate your block?

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Free_Stater
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Re: How do you lubricate your block?

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SHARPSSHOOTER5090 wrote:I melt SPG and pour the cavity in the breach block and gas check full. It eliminates the air space and it takes many many shots before it is melted away. what does melt with each shot keeps the breach block lubricated and sliding easily for a long time. The minimising the air space seams to help with accuracy a bit.

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This is a very old thread, but your method is one I discovered as well, and it's pretty much all I do now. In fact, since I started doing this, I have never had a shooting session interrupted for block cleaning. Not once. Quite simply, I run out of ammunition before I do any cleaning at all. I'm using the DGL lube, but it's the same concept. I think that, based on its consistency, though, the SPG might work a bit better.
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Re: How do you lubricate your block?

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How do I lubricate my blocks?
Eezox. Thin coating dries to the metal. Example of lubrication ... I can cock the finger levers on my '92 Winchesters with my little finger - honest truth!
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Re: How do you lubricate your block?

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Perhaps I'm being simplistic. Among the manufacturing staff at Shiloh who shoot their 1863s, what are the preferences? Better but unlikely, what is their collective preference?
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