Breaking down fibers in the wood?

[Crewdawg445]

Oh no worries, just the basis for good conversation and debate. :thumbsup:

 

[BrownBear]

If this is too off-topic, ignore it or PM me with a reply.
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Cleaning out boxes on my back porch, I discovered much muzzleloading "stuff," including a previously opened can of Johnson's Paste Wax. While the can was properly sealed, the box had been outside for at least three years in west-central Montana.

Is the wax still useful?

A few years back I was tearing down an old storage shed on our place. Back in a corner on a stud block I found a can of JPW that had been there for over 20 years I'm sure. Atsa lotta freeze/thaw cycles.

Nice to find because the can in the house was about used up. Still using that old can today.

 

[TNGhost]

Well, I'm only 75 1/2 years old and have been shooting guns since I was 6 years old. My grandpa started me out young and I not only learned how to shoot a gun, I learned how to clean and protect it. I've never had a gun stock develop problems from the amount of oil that I have used to protect the metal parts of a gun. I just oil them lightly, I don't drench or drown them in oil. Admittedly, that is only 70 years. Even though I have never had a problem with wood deterioration, now when I build or re-stock a gun, I not only finish the outside of the stock, I work finish into the barrel channel and anywhere I can get it just for that tiny bit of added protection. Is it necessary? Hell, I don't know, I've never had a problem, I just do it because I can.

Started at 6 too, though I am about 20 years behind you, and agree with everything you say.

Had guns I bought new and others that were well used, never seen this problem.

 

[Rifleman1776]

I use and love ballistol, in fact it's the only store bought oil that touches any of my guns including stocks

I have some but after trying it, I no longer will even let the can get anywhere my guns. :shake:
I used it on my bolty suppository rifle. A couple months later I could not move the bolt. Like it had been welded closed. :shocked2: After much work and using penetrating oils I finally was able to open it. Stuff may have had some uses in the big war for the Germans. I dunno. :idunno: But, I do know, the lost the war.

 

[BrownBear]

A couple months later I could not move the bolt. Like it had been welded closed.

Huh....

And I thought I was the only one. :idunno:

 

[TNGhost]

I have seen Ballistol touted for cleaning BP fouling and corrosive primer fouling. Their own website recommends cutting it 3 parts water to 1 part Ballistol. Why not just use water, and oil up after with Mobil 1?

 

[Billnpatti]

:metoo: on the Renaissance Wax. Great stuff and worth the price. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OZagOg2Bek

 

[nhmoose]

Note the water additive at 2/3's That gets rid of the corrosive salts not the Ballistol.

I do not like the smell of it period. It will gum up same as dried WD-40 when it dries.

As a former gunsmith wd-40 made me many pay checks cleaning the dried residue off gun parts. Easy does it counts for any gun lube, the average user uses 500+ % more than needed.

 

[M. De Land]

I think one of the things I have learned to preserve stock wood has nothing to do with finish or preservative oil used.
It is storing the arm muzzle down so any oil flows away from the breech area where it tends to pool up and soak into the wood over time causing it to deteriorate.