Saeed --
Way back when, I recall your conducting some tests of various products regarding their relative abilities to protect steel from moisture/oxydation. Did you complete those tests? May we have the results, please?
-- Doc

Doc,

Sorry I did not see your message earlier!

I did finish the test, but some nitwit used the paper I had the results on to paint a stock on!

I will clean up that barrel with sand paper down to the bare metal again, and will run the test again.

Nothing beats wax, though, for real protection in humid salty atmosphere.

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saeed@ emirates.net.ae

www.accuratereloading.com

Saeed, you mentioned that wax was better than oils for rust prevention and was woundering how johnson paste wax (in a can) does for rust protection. Thanks. Greg

375 Alaska,

Go into the Safeway store and tell the Manager of the store howdy for me. Tell him Joel Babcock from IT. He's a great guy. Avid hunter too.

JBabcock, will do.

As a knife maker who is called upon to make carbon steel knives from time to time, I've tried every low and high tech rust preventative that I can find including all of the expensive "mil spec" products offered by Brownell's.

As Saeed indicated wax is without doubt the best. There is kind of a stream of comment within the knife community about the best one. Most folks like bee'wax, but I have found that there is no practical difference between Johnson's Floor Wax (in the can) and bee's wax. Both are WAY better than any liquid and better than some of the "museum quality" waxes that cost $20 for a smallish can.

Sure doesn't sound elegant, but good old JFW is cheap and it works really, really, really well. (Plus ... you can afford to have several cans in different shops and won't feel bad if you leave one at a show, at the range, or in the rental at one end of a hunt. ;>