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Lehigh Valley has been the #1 Dry Lube, Bore Cleaner and Rust Preventative Since 1995. Touted as a CLP for all guns! Test of Lehigh Valley Patch Lubricant. Category: Muzzle. The original Lehigh Valley lube is of a completely different quality and you can get it in. Mar 10, 2015 Best Patch Lube in Cold Weather?? It's called Clydes patch lube and cleaner. I used to use Lehigh Valley Lube until I ran out of it.

Dennis, you may be on to something. My buddy Neil brought over his.54 cal Hawken barrel last week. It is 28 years old. He had been hunting with it - got a mule deer I understand.

He fired a couple of caps to clean the oil out of the nipple and cone, then loaded it using Lehigh Valley lube. It was five days later that he touched it off with success.

But when he went to clean it, he found a rusty spot at the breech. I pulled the breech plug which shows no sign of rust other than it is not bright any more. But there was deep pitting in the area where the charge would have been. Both the lands and grooves were pitted over a distance of a little over an inch from the face of the plug. Neither of us has experienced this on any other rifle with any lube we used prior to Lehigh. We do not know what caused the rust, but it was significant. I put the barrel in the lathe and polished out the rust, creating a tapered 'chamber'.

He may have to increase his load by ten grains, but the rust is gone and the bore is now the same polish from end to end. Could the lube have reacted with the powder to cause the rust? It couldn't have been the caps because the cone and nipple seat are not rusty. I will take a barrel stub and load it with FFg and a Lehigh patched ball, and leave it in the shed for a while to see if this recurs. Just to make sure of what went on. I hunted with the rifle last Friday. Fired it once to clear the charge.

Cleaned it with Murphy oil soap mixed with Alcohol then rinsed the bore with alcohol. Dried with a couple of patches then put a couple of wet patches of LHV lube in bore to protect it. Polya How To Solve It. Sunday afternoon I put a couple of dry patches through the bore and both had brownish/yellow color.

I then used several wet patches (LHV) and then dried bore and then a damp patch with LHV lube to protect. This afternoon I checked and dry patches came our with brownish/yellow color on the dry patches. So I will go back to using my Balistol until I figure out what is going on. I don't know what's happening, Dennis.

Neil's rifle shows a perfect bore, except where the cap-fash would have deposited it's fouling. Neil wasn't sure if he's possibly used corrosive caps or not- they may have been Italian or Spanish made caps - not sure. What is sure, is that the rest of his bore is perect - absolutely brilliant, which would have had a coating of LHV in it all the time it was loaded. The rust part was only where the powder sat while he was hunting - the last 1 1/2' of bore ahead of the plug. Yes, it's intriquing. I've been using LHV for trail walks and for cleaning the odd time at rondy - my bore is perect still. I wonder is the balistol and LHV don't like each other.

Balistol is a petrolium derivitive, isn't it? I know it's soluable in water - but perhaps the chemical mix doesn't work. I'll continue using LHV for winter shoots as nothing yet matches it for accuracy at time. I've found in warm or hot weather, spit works better.

Spit isn't as slippery to load at any time, but actually shoots better in the summer - go figure. LHV expands groups for me by over 2X in warm weather. There is no powder charge with either 3F or 2F that shoots well during those months. Steam Guard Keygen Crack. Spit rules with either powder- but only in a warm climate. Dennis, Look at the label on the back of the bottle. Lestom Laboratories or Ox-Yoke???

When the water and alcohol evaporate from the lube you have a orangish brown residue. The base ingredient in the lube that makes it work. It will leave a colored film in the bore. So a discolored patch would be normal after using the lube in the bore. When Ox-Yoke took over the lube they cut the amount of active ingredient. The solids in the lube went from 8% down to between 5 and 6%. At the same time the pH went from around 8.0 up close to 11.0.

The Ox-Yoke produced lube was not as good as what Tom DeCare, at Lestom, had produced. The joys of leaving a powder charge in the bore for more than a short period of time. If the powder charge picks up any moisture there will be a chance of corrosion where the grains of powder contact the bore's surfaces. Download Pivot Stickman Animator 3.1 Free. The lube used may or may not play a part in this. When the charge is to be left in the gun any length of time you should avoid a lube that is water based. When the surfaces of the powder grains pick up moisture you will get a wetting of the surfaces of the grains. When the potassium nitrate begins to dissolve into that thin film of water it forms an electrolyte and you will get pit corrosion at the point of contact with the bore walls.