Gunsmithing What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

[LoneWolfUSMC]

I just got done cleaning the trigger on the 700 and checking the adjustments. The pull creeped up a little due to debris and corrosion from the beating I put her through a couple weeks ago.

Back in the day Hoppes or CLP was all we were authorized to use to clean/lube the rifle. I know lighter fluid is the current fave for flushing/lubing.

I am just wondering if there is anything else that you guys have used with success. I know the Remington manual recommends Rem Oil. I heard that it's a Teflon based lube in a light carrier, but i can't confirm that. It's supposed to evaporate quickly and leave the Teflon behind. I am thinking of giving it a try.

 

[RADcustom]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

I like RemOil for things like this.

It works good as a solvent for cleaning pistols also.

 

[wnroscoe]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

No oils. The Rem Oil is good stuff but I prefer to run triggers dry. Lighter Fluid gets the knod.

 

[RADcustom]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

Yeah, but what do you know?

Lighter fluid it is then.

I still like it for cleaning.

 

[wnroscoe]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

You wouldn’t believe the triggers that come in here packed full of grease like they're wheel bearings.

 

[RADcustom]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

I have noticed Remington puts some type of dry moly on the sear from the factory.

Have you seen this?

 

[wnroscoe]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

Not that I can recall.

 

[BOLTRIPPER]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

and now for something completely different......


what lube for the firing pin/spring ?

 

[RADcustom]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

I used some grease on one of mine and started having light strikes/misfires. Not sure if it caused the problem or if I have other issues, but I cleaned the grease off just in case.

 

[wnroscoe]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BOLTRIPPER</div><div class="ubbcode-body">and now for something completely different......


what lube for the firing pin/spring ? </div></div>

I use the same stuff I grease the striker/cocking cam/shrowd threads with. Shooter Choice Gun Grease. Just a little on your fingers and rub it in on the coils. Rem Oil is also good for this.

 

[LoneWolfUSMC]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

I have just been wiping some Militec on my fingers and rubbing them over the FP Spring. Seems to work fine at preventing corrosion. I put some TW25B on the threads of the cocking piece as well as the back of the lugs and the cocking cam.

I guess what i am worried about is the kind of weeping rust from the trigger like I saw this last week. I am going to keep a VERY light coat on the outside of the housing and the safety/bolt release. After one week in the rain the bolt release was getting sticky so it definitely needs some corrosion protection. I am assuming the actual trigger surfaces are some type of corrosion resistant metal since I did not find any rust anywhere on them.

I guess i just need to plan on flushing with lighter fluid anytime the rifle is out in the rain for a day or two.

 

[RADcustom]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wnroscoe</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You wouldn’t believe the triggers that come in here packed full of grease like they're wheel bearings. </div></div>

It's to keep them from overheating from the high speed friction.

 

[wnroscoe]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: LoneWolfUSMC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I guess i just need to plan on flushing with lighter fluid anytime the rifle is out in the rain for a day or two. </div></div>

That'll solve a lot of problems before they become problems.

 

[BOLTRIPPER]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wnroscoe</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BOLTRIPPER</div><div class="ubbcode-body">and now for something completely different......


what lube for the firing pin/spring ? </div></div>

I use the same stuff I grease the striker/cocking cam/shrowd threads with. Shooter Choice Gun Grease. Just a little on your fingers and rub it in on the coils. Rem Oil is also good for this.</div></div>




here is a crazy thought .......for COLD conditions....go dry!

 

[LoneWolfUSMC]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

I am guessing for a proper flush it needs to be pulled from the stock, correct? I can't imagine that lighter fluid would be good for glass bedding (my rifle isn't bedded yet, just torqued to the bedding block).

 

[RADcustom]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BOLTRIPPER</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wnroscoe</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BOLTRIPPER</div><div class="ubbcode-body">and now for something completely different......


what lube for the firing pin/spring ? </div></div>

I use the same stuff I grease the striker/cocking cam/shrowd threads with. Shooter Choice Gun Grease. Just a little on your fingers and rub it in on the coils. Rem Oil is also good for this.</div></div>

here is a crazy thought .......for COLD conditions....go dry!

</div></div>

We don't get a lot of that.

 

[BOLTRIPPER]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

lol...........

 

[vinconco]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

Would gun scrubber, carb cleaner or other degreasers work instead of lighter fluid?

 

[Graham]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

I've used Carburetor/Brake cleaner when lighter fluid was unavailable. But it does strip everything bare.

 

[Tactical Support]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

Lighter fluid or arctic weapons oil govt issued

 

[Greg Langelius *]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

I used to work on electric typewriters for IBM. The application had a lot of precision parts sliding against each other in very tight confines (For those who are familiar, we are discussing carriage escapement interposer cages to permit mechanical proportional letter spacing on the Executive Typewriter models). They developed a proprietary lubricant based on whale (actually porpoise) oil, which is no longer available due to porpoise-hugger issues. The key criteria were very light viscosity and non-gumming over time.

We also developed a technique for applying grease in extremely thin layers, based on adding a small percentage of grease to a completely volatile solvent (in this case Trichloroethane, which is now OSHA banned). Using a tiny artist's brush, we would apply a drop of this solution to the edge of the gap, and allow it to be drawn in by capillary action.

The grease solution was used in areas where corrosion was an issue, and the porpoise oil was used where it wasn't.

I would substitute Coleman Fuel as my evaporating solvent, and plain Petroleum Jelly (Vaseline) as the grease. For non-corrosive environments, I would substitute ATF, and employ Coleman Fuel to thin it down for an ultra-light application, ala the original porpoise oil.

I would use a very light application via artist's brush and a single drop relying on capillary action to draw the solution into the mechanism, and a hair dryer to evaporate the solvent.

I would not use silicone based lubricants (Rem-Oil, WD-40). They are based on vegetable products, and tend to gum up rather quickly.

For cleaning, several successive liberal spraydowns with Birchwood Casey Gun Scrubber. The sh*t works.

Greg

 

[Red_SC]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

I have a bottle of this, I'm going to give it a try as soon as my barreled action gets back from SAS. If it works as well as KG's other products, it should be great.

 

[SingleShot85]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

I use dirt as a polishing compound and thousands of trigger pulls.

 

[LoneWolfUSMC]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

That's wonderful, but when you shower with your rifle.... Doesn't it turn to mud?

 

[wksinatl]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

BP-2000 compliments of Mike Rock.

It's kind of a dry graphite powder. Slick and doesn't attract crap like a grease does.

Keith

 

[mark4567]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

My son used to be big into pinewood derby cars. One of the tricks they use was powdered graphite on the axles. I figured I would try some on my triggers, NEVER going to use anything else now!

 

[dukedurham]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

Don't forget about Eezox....but you gotta remember that Brylcream commercial(a little dab will do ya'). A plus is that it fights corrosion while being slickery.

 

[mlthoma]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

"...It's supposed to evaporate quickly and leave the Teflon behind. I am thinking of giving it a try."

I used to use a similar lube on my bicycle chain when I did a lot of serious riding. The carrier all evaporates so it's not messy. Problem is in the dry climate we have here in New Mexico the teflon would gum up into a hard wax between the cogs that you had to scrape out with a screwdriver because nothing cuts it. I don't have a better suggestion for triggers and I certainly don't have the experience of some of our very knowledgeable posters, but personally I'm going to shy away from the teflon based stuff.

Mike in ABQ

 

[former naval person]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

Greg is right. The sperm whale oil was used as an extreme film strength lubricant for the transfer cases of jeeps during WWII. An old soldier told me that it was the only thing that would keep the Browning machine guns running in the South Pacific. If you want the identical chemical oil and the identical smell, JOJOBA bean oil is the stuff...a case of mother nature getting it together in both the animal and vegetable kingdoms! ATF was developed after the War to replace the sperm whale oil and is an excellent high film strength lube. The new synthetic ATF's are even better. Bye the bye...Coleman Fluid is a highly purified Naptha. Your local Lowe's may have Naptha for a couple bucks less than Coleman's fluid...and certainly cheaper than little tiny bottles of Lighter fluid...which is the same thing also. JMHO

 

[dan46n2]

Re: What do YOU use to lube your 700 trigger?

I lube my AR triggers with Militec, never have on my Rem 700.