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Offline Skychief

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Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« on: August 28, 2010, 05:48:08 AM »
Anybody wiping down their rifles with extra virgin olive oil between uses?   I have a friend that has been doing so for years, with good results.

What's the difference between regular and extra virgin olive oils?
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Offline Ken G

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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2010, 05:58:56 AM »
Extra-Virgin Olive oil is less than 1% acidity
Virgin Olive Oil is slighly more acidic.  Like 1 and 1/2% or something like that.

Never used it for wiping?  It's hard to beat Ballistol. 
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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2010, 07:27:40 AM »
I bet you don't live near the ocean.  It's a death sentence for steel around here.
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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2010, 06:13:26 PM »
Why ???  Thers better rust protectors.

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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2010, 08:10:35 PM »
Something that works well for me is jojoba oil -- made from a desert plant. Jojoba oil is one of only two (to my knowledge) known liquid waxes, the other being carnauba of car wax fame. I use it on metal and wood, both; gives wood a wonderful glow. Of course, I live in the desert, where 12 percent humidity is the norm most of the year, so it might not be suitable elsewhere. You can get a small bottle (six ounces?) at health-food stores (women used to use it as a skin treatment) for around $7. Small bottle lasts forever. FWIW . . . -- paulallen, tucson az
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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2010, 02:00:14 AM »
The Japanese use this:

http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?sku=co

So do I, on tools. Doesn't affect glue-up. Said to have been used by the Samurai. Also used as a cosmetic--said to be good for preventing stretch marks. ::) ;) ::)

Balistol on guns. Said to be good for preventing rust marks...
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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2010, 05:12:09 PM »
gave it a brief try but after rust developed almost immediately, I quit...some references to "sweet oil" in period lit suggests its use to some folks. 
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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2010, 05:06:40 PM »
Vegetable oils are generally acidic to a greater or lesser extent. The acid content in "boiled linseed oil" from the lumber yard inhibits drying for example.
With all the products available for rust prevention I can't see using vegetable oil.
I think people do this because they think its HC. HC would be Sperm Whale oil I believe. But it is hard to find.
Extra Virgin Olive oil is the only kind I would knowingly put in my mouth. Its the first pressing.
As the process continues the some of the lower grade oils are extracted by solvents.

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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2010, 05:20:03 PM »
Quote from: caliber45 on August 28, 2010, 08:10:35 PM
Something that works well for me is jojoba oil -- made from a desert plant.

Apparently, Jojoba oil is the closest thing you can get to sperm whale oil.  Very similar chemically.
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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2010, 04:39:17 AM »
Quote from: caliber45 on August 28, 2010, 08:10:35 PM
Something that works well for me is jojoba oil -- made from a desert plant. Jojoba oil is one of only two (to my knowledge) known liquid waxes, the other being carnauba of car wax fame. I use it on metal and wood, both; gives wood a wonderful glow. Of course, I live in the desert, where 12 percent humidity is the norm most of the year, so it might not be suitable elsewhere. You can get a small bottle (six ounces?) at health-food stores (women used to use it as a skin treatment) for around $7. Small bottle lasts forever. FWIW . . . -- paulallen, tucson az

I believe that sperm oil is a liquid wax as well. It is not the same as the oil rendered from blubber.

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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2010, 03:55:45 AM »
Kroil is the best it is made by Kano laboratories, and has been proven many times over!! hands down. Brownells Inc, sells it.
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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2010, 06:46:37 AM »
Quote from: Bart on September 02, 2010, 03:55:45 AM
Kroil is the best it is made by Kano laboratories, and has been proven many times over!! hands down. Brownells Inc, sells it.

You might look at this test of rust preventatives.
http://www.thegunzone.com/rust.html
Dan
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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2010, 05:24:19 AM »
A mix of kerosene and Mercon/Dextron works well.  You can make  it thick or thin and it works well.  I use olive oil for my patch lube hunting and for the bore during that time but I'll stick with modern lubes and such for storage.
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« Reply #13 on: September 08, 2010, 03:00:41 AM »
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Re: Olive Oil as a rust inhibitor?
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2010, 05:52:13 PM »
Tim- thankyou for that link. Most excellent test I've seen. So much for LehighValley Lube being not good enough - but then, in Taylor's test, it did rust underneath the patch - not in the test of the barrel after a 5 day test.  I noted that Hoppe's #9 Plus wasn't tested in either link, but which gave superior results to Taylor's Lehigh test - no rust anywhere.  His test was as close to a normal hunting & leaving the gun loaded test as powder was used beneath a patched ball.  In neither test did the lube, Lehigh nor Hoppe's wet the powder - dry right to the ball.
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