froglube on sti mags?

[benjamin]

new to the whole 2011 thing, should i put froglube on my mags? i have tuned brazos mags.. thanks

[Paul Santiago]

Polish your mags, yes. Lube them? I'd say no. I don't wan't anything on my mags that might cause foreign particles to stick to the mag.

[Sarge]

If they are tuned and polished there is no need to lube them. They will be slicker without it. And like Paul said, lube attracts dirt and grime. Leave them dry and clean!

[benjamin]

thanks

[raz-0]

If they are polished I wouldn't. at least not the waxy stuff, as the smoother the surface, the more I tend to find it leaves a slick waxy layer for longer. Something like a matte parkerized surface it soaks into. As a lube and protectant, I'm not sure I'd bother putting it on anything actually.

As a lube, I've found it to underperform many wet lubes at lubricating. It meets the performance of many dry lubes I have used, but at the cost of being significantly less dry and more tacky than they have been. The wax is nice for a post cleaning coating on my polished blued guns before they get put away, but it seems ot have issues with lots of physical contact. Things actually getting heavy use with finishes that aren't good at corrosion resistance on their own are a much different story. The little rust speckles clean up MUCH easier than with other protectants that have worked poorly, so it is doing something better, but that rust started out as gun and now isn't, which is pretty much counter to the purpose of a protectant. I know they go on about degreasing stuff, but short of detail stripping it and giving it an overnight bath in gun blast or something, it's about as degreased as one might expect for the application of a lube.

I dunno, but I'm pretty certian on a polished metal surface of a magazine you want ot reload real fast under pressure, it will stay undesirably slippery for way longer than you might like. It's far from the only lube with this issue IMO.

[Bob DuBois]

Think it's almost impossible to over lube the pistol but don't lube the mags, they will be on the ground and lube attracts dirt.

Get magazines wet, take them apart and clean them, springs rust. Shoot in a dusty area might purchase a magazine brush.

I'll polish the inside and outside about once a year and push a clean rag through the inside a few times a year.

[a matt]

NO !

[yoshidaex]

Dry

[Extremo]

How about magazines that tend to rust, like Rescomp tubes and blued Mec-Gars?

[yoshidaex]

If storing them, use a silicon rag and wipe them down.

Before use, clean them up and use them dry.

Any lube attracts dirt and dust where you don't want it.

[z40acp]

I use GDL {garage door lube} made by PB Blaster. It's dry and doesn't attract dust. Works great with plastic followers.

[waktasz]

I used to have to silicon dry lube spray my ammo and mags to make my Caspian run before I had it fixed.

[Steve RA]

Take apart and run all metal parts in tumbler for an hour or so. Will clean and polish effortlessly. If blued, may remove blueing.

[john58]

If it were me I would just polish the mags and forget about putting something on my mag that with attract dirt and crud when the mag hits the ground.

[john58]

If it were me I would just polish the mags and forget about putting something on my mag that with attract dirt and crud when the mag hits the ground.