TO KEEP ARMS AND POLISHED METAL FROM RUST

[Subdeacon Joe]

https://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/receipt/receipt.html

 

CONFEDERATE
RECEIPT BOOK.

A COMPILATION
OF
OVER ONE HUNDRED RECEIPTS,
ADAPTED TO THE TIMES.

 

WEST & JOHNSTON, RICHMOND.
1863.
G. W. GARY, Printer, 21 Pearl Street.

 

TO KEEP ARMS AND POLISHED METAL FROM RUST.--

        Dissolve one ounce of camphor in two pounds of hog's lard, observing to take off the scum, then mix as much black lead as will give the mixture an iron color. Fire arms, &c., rubbed over with this mixture, left twenty-four hours, and then dried with a linen cloth, will keep clean for many months.

[Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L]

or I just use Rem-Oil on a rag 

[Lawdog Dago Dom]

James Country Mercantile in Liberty, MO has been doing period clothing for several centuries before the Wild West era. Plus they are SASS merchants. We stopped by there a week or so ago to check on some clothing. One shade of green on a scarf was described to us as “poison green.” To get that shade dye makers used a fair amount of arsenic back then. It was common then to use other toxic chemicals to get various colors and shades. Confederate soldiers in southwest Missouri who could not get chemical dyes for the grey color, would boil wool uniforms with walnut hills for varying shades of brown/beige. Better than sitting in the woods with a white wool jacket I reckon!

[Eyesa Horg]

42 minutes ago, Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L said:

or I just use Rem-Oil on a rag 

Eezox works great too and no greasy film. A little on a patch and wipe the metal. Works excellent on my muzzleloader bore too.

[Pat Riot]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

https://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/receipt/receipt.html

 

CONFEDERATE
RECEIPT BOOK.

A COMPILATION
OF
OVER ONE HUNDRED RECEIPTS,
ADAPTED TO THE TIMES.

 

WEST & JOHNSTON, RICHMOND.
1863.
G. W. GARY, Printer, 21 Pearl Street.

 

TO KEEP ARMS AND POLISHED METAL FROM RUST.--

        Dissolve one ounce of camphor in two pounds of hog's lard, observing to take off the scum, then mix as much black lead as will give the mixture an iron color. Fire arms, &c., rubbed over with this mixture, left twenty-four hours, and then dried with a linen cloth, will keep clean for many months.

I wonder what that smelled like when the gun got hot? I’ll bet it would keep your sinuses clear. 

 

Can you even buy camphor any more?

[Subdeacon Joe]

52 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

I wonder what that smelled like when the gun got hot? I’ll bet it would keep your sinuses clear. 

 

Can you even buy camphor any more?

 

https://www.amazon.com/Deer-Camphor-Guaranteed-Refined-Blocks/dp/B08VGVHRBM?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=A3027TSHWJCH96&th=1

 

https://global.microless.com/product/awafi-medicinal-camphor-pure-indian-origin-first-grade-a-pacha-karpooram-original-kapoor-for-multipurpose-pack-of2-oz-58-gm/?currency=usd

[Pat Riot]

47 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

https://www.amazon.com/Deer-Camphor-Guaranteed-Refined-Blocks/dp/B08VGVHRBM?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=A3027TSHWJCH96&th=1

 

https://global.microless.com/product/awafi-medicinal-camphor-pure-indian-origin-first-grade-a-pacha-karpooram-original-kapoor-for-multipurpose-pack-of2-oz-58-gm/?currency=usd

Well, I’ll be darned! Thanks Joe. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I wipe everything down with  very light coating of Frog Lube and there simply is no rust...and it smelsl like bubblegum.

[Subdeacon Joe]

6 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Well, I’ll be darned! Thanks Joe. 

 

My pleasure! Let us know how it works on your ARs.   

[Pat Riot]

I was trying to figure out what black lead was. I thought it might be graphite it turns out it probably is. 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklead

[Alpo]

Now that's surprising.

 

Red lead is a lead-based primer. White lead is also a lead-based primer.

 

I assumed that black lead was going to be a lead-based primer.

[Gracos Kid]

18 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Eezox works great too and no greasy film. A little on a patch and wipe the metal. Works excellent on my muzzleloader bore too.

+1 for Eezox......For those that are not familiar, Google the test video of coated metal under the various weather conditions.....