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Hinge Pin Grease - what do you use or recommend for lubricating the hinge pin on your double rifle or shotgun? Does it matter? If so, what do you use and where do you get it? Thanks! | ||
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I use MilComm TW25B. Best gun grease I've ever found. I think Butch Searcy was sending a tube of it out with his doubles after he tried it. | |||
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Vaseline is the approximate some consistency as many specialty "hinge pin greases". Bearing grease is fine, too. Cal _______________________________ Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska www.CalPappas.com www.CalPappas.blogspot.com 1994 Zimbabwe 1997 Zimbabwe 1998 Zimbabwe 1999 Zimbabwe 1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation 2000 Australia 2002 South Africa 2003 South Africa 2003 Zimbabwe 2005 South Africa 2005 Zimbabwe 2006 Tanzania 2006 Zimbabwe--vacation 2007 Zimbabwe--vacation 2008 Zimbabwe 2012 Australia 2013 South Africa 2013 Zimbabwe 2013 Australia 2016 Zimbabwe 2017 Zimbabwe 2018 South Africa 2018 Zimbabwe--vacation 2019 South Africa 2019 Botswana 2019 Zimbabwe vacation 2021 South Africa 2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later) ______________________________ | |||
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Too much grease can cause wear,IMO.The thinnest film possible-especially in tight tolerance applications. | |||
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Sta-lube moly graph general purpose grease. Dave | |||
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Greasing a hinge pin excessively would not cause wear. Any amount you put will be swept aside once parts are assembled, and grease will remain in the form of a thin film embedded in the surface pores of the metal. The excess grease would catch solid particles and cause gumming though. Don't Ever Book a Hunt with Jeff Blair or Blair Worldwide Hunting http://forums.accuratereloadin...043/m/3471078051/p/1 | |||
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Tetra gun grease. It's a lot less messy than stuff with graphite and moly. http://www.tetraproducts.com/product_view.asp?ID=1 | |||
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I use the tube of grease that came with my K gun. Nitro "Man is a predator or at least those of us that kill and eat our own meat are. The rest are scavengers, eating what others kill for them." Hugh Randall DRSS, BASA 470 Krieghoff, 45-70 inserts, 12 ga paradox, 20 ga DR Simson/Schimmel, 12 ga DR O/U Famars, 12 ga DR SXS Greener | |||
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Any grease that has : 80 lb. Timken OK Load rating IE- StaPlex Red StaLube Red etc | |||
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My Searcy came with Tetra lube. | |||
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Grease is like a liquid.It does not compress and if you put to much it will put pressure on all metal parts including the hing pin. | |||
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Lube it or loose it!  Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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For the last few years I have used Clenzoil hinge pin jelly and it seems to work well. | |||
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I use automotive synthetic grease... DM | |||
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It will get wiped away as the hinge is worked. There is no place that is going to hold grease to the pressures that would cause damage to the arm. If ignorance is bliss; there are some blissful sonofaguns around here. We know who you are, so no reason to point yourselves out. | |||
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The greases are normally the EP grades like those used for lubing the Hypoid gears on a rear wheel drive car .Those greases are made for high pressure and a wiping action . These are similar to the lubes sold for the early stainless steel guns before they figured out what stainless grades to use .I still have some RIG + P which is made for this.Other similar greases work well too.Put some on the locking wedges too. | |||
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Where does white lithium fit into these recommendations? There used to be an English gun maker on one of these forums who said that was best and that he'd never needed to rejoint a gun or rifle that had been lubricated with it, IIRC. I'm not sure I've even seen the stuff he meant or how he could pin it down as so good. | |||
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I also use MilComm TW25B. | |||
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you are correct, sir. Don't Ever Book a Hunt with Jeff Blair or Blair Worldwide Hunting http://forums.accuratereloadin...043/m/3471078051/p/1 | |||
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Lithium is contained in most EP (extreme pressure ) greases. I use a lithium EP grease from Lubrication Engineers Inc. Was rather expensive at about $30 a tube 25 years ago but have been fastidious in applying a small squirt from a syringe on the hinge pin of my Miroku O/U shotgun over all those years and it is still as tight as the day it was new despite 1000s of rounds of use in clay target competition and hunting. | |||
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I use MILITEC-1 grease on the hinge pin! - Stays in place and lubricates in severe conditions. - Excellent water wash out resistance. - Superior shock-load protection - reduces corrosion wear and galling ................................................................  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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