Sweet Oil?

[john boy]

If you don't use it, might want to consider trying some.  I did and there's no looking back ... Eezox
http://www.eezox.com/index.html
http://www.6mmbr.com/corrosiontest.html
... I sprayed a piece of steel with Eezox and set it in the backyard for 12 weeks (3 months).  The steel had no corrosion at the end of the period.  My backyard is 100' from the Atlantic Ocean
... I thought all my firearms were clean until a ran an Eezox patch through one.  Ended up cleaning them all and can say - The are clean now

Even use the stuff to patch my BPCR bores when shooting

[James Hunt]

Delmonico: Indeed it is the same, I guess I use the name olive oil to belay confusion - I used to be verbally period only to find some poor guy coming back saying "I couldn't find a bottle of sweet oil anywhere".

For most wanting to be period correct (and I know about ballistol and other products being available, and with the difficulty going out and whacking a whale) I find water, tallow, and sweet oil to be very easily found, incredibly cheap, and to work equal to any other product that I have ever tried. In example, concerned with using "what they used", sweet oil became my lubricant for internals and the cylinder pin replacing Type II transmission fluid for me when my PC buddies kept prodding me about the mysterious red fluid I was using in my PC tin container. I feel these three would have been more common than just about anything else, and again, in my opinion they work equal to anything else I have tried.

I know of the virtues of ballistol and its availability, but I have yet to have a source regarding its common appearance in saddle bags.

Of course all this is moot relevant to other issues in life, but it does create a diversion when one considers the increasing mess the world finds itself in, the disadvantage of living in the 21st century is that there is no more frontier to run to.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

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I know of the virtues of ballistol and its availability, but I have yet to have a source regarding its common appearance in saddle bags.

Of course all this is moot relevant to other issues in life, but it does create a diversion when one considers the increasing mess the world finds itself in, the disadvantage of living in the 21st century is that there is no more frontier to run to.

I'm not totally sure of the exact date, but Ballistol IS period correct, James ... after 1895/1898 or so.      And in Germany - probably NOT on the American Frontier!    It's my understanding that it became available about the same time as several of Mr. Mauser's best and latest 19th Century designs.