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From: jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns
Subject: Gun cleaning / rust prevention
Message-ID: <2290@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 19:01:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 21 19:01:10 1987
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Author: ames!lll-crg!maddog!brooks@cad.berkeley.edu (Eugene D. Brooks III)

Article: 1:39


I have found that cleaning and preserving a gun with the standard oil
provided in Hoppes cleaning kits does a poor job of preventing rust.
During the rainy season here, I have found rust growing right through
a layer of oil and had to carefullly wipe down the pistol every few weeks.

The cure to the problem has been to use WD-40 to preserve the pistol.
Pistols wiped down with a cloth soaked in WD-40 had not shown any rust
growth after many months of storage.