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drail · February 22, 2013, 05:45 PM

Just field strip and remove all of the factory "lube". The factories pack the guns in a preservative (not a lube) because they have no idea how long the gun may sit in some damp warehouse before it sells (could be years). The preservative they use can turn into a gummy varnish when the gun is fired so they want you to strip it out and replace it with actual lube. Just get it all off of the breech, extractor, firing pin channel and barrel lugs and chamber and bore. The bore is where it can turn into a really hard to remove mess. Do a search for "Logman slide stop mod" and do it and you will never have to worry about "idiot scratches".

February 22, 2013, 05:45 PM	#17
drail Junior member Join Date: February 2, 2008 Posts: 3,150	Just field strip and remove all of the factory "lube". The factories pack the guns in a preservative (not a lube) because they have no idea how long the gun may sit in some damp warehouse before it sells (could be years). The preservative they use can turn into a gummy varnish when the gun is fired so they want you to strip it out and replace it with actual lube. Just get it all off of the breech, extractor, firing pin channel and barrel lugs and chamber and bore. The bore is where it can turn into a really hard to remove mess. Do a search for "Logman slide stop mod" and do it and you will never have to worry about "idiot scratches".