Breech plug?

[Nor Cal Mikie]

install, dry or lubed? Not thinking it will be coming back out any time soon. Oil or anti seize?
Got a new plug and the plan is to remove the old one, hone the bore to "smooth" it out best possible and re install the new plug.
Sure beats what it is now.

 

[IanH]

I generally use choke tube grease on mine, applied sparingly to inside and outside threads and all flat crush surfaces.

 

[Phil Coffins]

I prefer nothing on the breech threads other then a good fit.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Synthetic motor oil

 

[tenngun]

I have it in and out several times in a build, my last install bees wax candle tubes around the threads

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

Lithium grease

 

[2 shots]

baboon snot

 

[Tumbledown]

Beeswax or anti-seize grease? I should think you'd want something to seal them and reduce the chance for corrosion.

 

[IanH]

baboon snot

That's more for gluing on rubber weatherstrip, isn't it?

 

[2 shots]

thats monkey snot, baboon snot is for breech plugs...never confuse the two

 

[waarp8nt]

If baboon snot is not available.

I use anti-seize sparingly on the male threads. If its a patent breech plug, I wipe the excess off as the plug is tightened.

 

[tenngun]

baboon snot

Where do you get that, does it come in tins, don’t tell me your chasing ‘boons with hankies

 

[Sam squanch]

I use that teflon plumbing tape. Pulled a plug to scrub a barrel clean after 5 years. Came out easily.

 

[2 shots]

Where do you get that, does it come in tins, don’t tell me your chasing ‘boons with hankies

no... i have a friend in the zoo game.

 

[TDM]

While not as good as baboon snot, I use a light coat of RIG on the threads.

 

[2 shots]

that will work in a pinch.

 

[morehops52]

Bat dung from caves in eastern Kentucky.

 

[Eric Krewson]

The best I have found is what I use it on my tractor turnbuckles, they sit out in the weather year-round and are just as free a year later as when I brushed anti-seize on the threads. You can't wash this stuff off.

 

[Rebel bull]

The best I have found is what I use it on my tractor turnbuckles, they sit out in the weather year-round and are just as free a year later as when I brushed anti-seize on the threads. You can't wash this stuff off.

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this and the copper version are great products but for my muzzle loaders i use gorilla breech plug lube picked up a tin of it years ago about the size of a cap tin it's enough to last a lifetime. I use it on even the nipple and the cleanout screw

 

[Eric Krewson]

People a quick to dismiss the use of anti-seize as it gets on parts and may complicate the browning process, lacquer thinner or acetone takes care of this problem.