first C&B

[bud in pa]

What lube do you use for your arbor? All I have right now is my homemade beef tallow and bees wax. I use this in my smoothie. would this be sufficient for my arbor?

 

[64Springer]

Wheel Bearing Grease.

 

[Gee Dog]

White lithium grease. Not petro based.

 

[Pete453]

Bud, your mix will work on the arbor. On Colt open tops it works just fine, I've used it, but I've gotten in the habit of using either white lithium or wheel bearing grease, whichever is handier.

In my 58 Remington, I cut shallow acme threads in the cylinder pin to hold lube and use the lube you're asking about. At each reload I work the pin in and out a few times and it breaks up the fouling. I've shot as many as 6 cylinders full before adding more lube.

All I can say is to try your ideas, that will prove them out one way or another. I'm thinking that's how we've gotten to where we are now.
Good luck,
Pete

 

[TDM]

What lube do you use for your arbor? All I have right now is my homemade beef tallow and bees wax. I use this in my smoothie. would this be sufficient for my arbor?

I used to think it mattered, but it really doesn’t. Your lube or any light grease will do fine.

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

I used to use Slick 50 One Grease, but haven't been able to find it in a while. White lithium grease will work well, as will Ewl. You don't really have to worry about not using petroleum greases for this application as the arbor is not subjected to the extreme heat of combustion as the bore and chambers are.

 

[bud in pa]

Thanks for the info everyone.

 

[user 48679]

FWIW, since I use canned lard ( Crisco cooking fat ) atop the seated ball to seal the front of the loaded chambers, it eventually runs around enough while firing to lube the cylinder pin. ( as the gun is fired, the lube softens )

I've gone through a full day of shooting w/o re-lubing - and the bonus is that clean-up is EZPZ ( zero hard crud/fouling )

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Thompson Center 1000+ Bore Butter. All natural, makes your pistol smells like Spearmint gum.

 

[PastorB]

Crisco, or it's off brand equivalent. No need to complicate it. When I go to the range. I literally shoot hundreds of rounds per session thru revolvers. Crisco over the ball has my cylinders turning more freely after dozens of reloads than when the gun was clean. Doesn't matter if it is my Remington or Colt repros. Without lube they are binding after one cylinder. Like Pietro said, cleanup is EZ PZ.

 

[snakebit]

What lube do you use for your arbor? All I have right now is my homemade beef tallow and bees wax. I use this in my smoothie. would this be sufficient for my arbor?

Ditto on the bore butter. Where in PA? I'm in Union County.