Lubricating a Garret Sharps removable Chamber Bushing

[SolidLeadSlug]

With most owners of paper cutter sharps complaining of frozen bushings and significant gas leaks, what's the best modern way of keeping a 63 sharps bushing from siezing up and moving freely during firing? Lithium grease?

 

[dave951]

Lithium grease works but I've found that Mobil1 synthetic grease to the the best if you can overlook the pink color but that goes black after the first shot anyway.

 

[Calum]

'morning,

Beautiful rifle! My Garret is not nearly so pristine.

Part of the frozen sleeve issue is also the difference between carbines and rifles. Even though the lock is the same, all manufacturers (that I'm aware of) use a shorter sleeve in the carbines. The longer rifle sleeve is unable to be fully removed for cleaning, so seizure is inevitable.

On my Pedersoli, which was modified to a two-piece sleeve before I bought it, I use high temp brake grease. Works fine.

Mike

 

[SolidLeadSlug]

Lithium grease works but I've found that Mobil1 synthetic grease to the the best if you can overlook the pink color but that goes black after the first shot anyway.

Thank you

 

[SolidLeadSlug]

'morning,

Beautiful rifle! My Garret is not nearly so pristine.

Part of the frozen sleeve issue is also the difference between carbines and rifles. Even though the lock is the same, all manufacturers (that I'm aware of) use a shorter sleeve in the carbines. The longer rifle sleeve is unable to be fully removed for cleaning, so seizure is inevitable.

On my Pedersoli, which was modified to a two-piece sleeve before I bought it, I use high temp brake grease. Works fine.

Mike

I applied some anti-seize i had lying around. Hopefully that works well. Now to find a mold!

 

[dave951]

I applied some anti-seize i had lying around. Hopefully that works well. Now to find a mold!

Before buying a mold, SLUG THE BORE! That can be done with a simply fishing weight that is "squashed" to slightly larger than bore size. Lube the squashed weight and tap through the bore from the BREECH end using a wood dowel near bore size (7/16). Once you have that in hand, THEN go looking for a mold. You can do what you want, but if you skip this step, you risk not getting any usable accuracy and wasting money on a mold.