Maintenance, Servicing and is Silicone Oil good or bad?

[clarky]

I think you missed my point. We all know that that the chemical formula of molybdenum disulphide is MoS2, but just because a grease manufacturer calls a product 'MS something' does not necessarily mean that it contains molybdenum disulphide or anything else for that matter.

A grease cannot be pure molybdenum disulphide, because that is a powder, so even the so-called moly grease simply contains an often surprisingly small amount of MoS2 in a grease carrier.

If I was marketing a grease containing MoS2, I might just as well name it MD, for molybdenum disulphide, as anything else. Similarly, MS in the name might simply stand for 'more suckers' or 'makes sterling'. As I said, it stands for whatever the manufacturers want it to stand for and should not be taken as a reliable indication of content.

Forget all things Silicone now.....its gone lithium based greases...
Tony Walls St2 or ST1
Deal with silicone grease is when the silicone separates it will gall even hardened steel..
Thus ....its not so much the mix as in the case of Molys but when it separates out...
It can be something as simple as some Youngs or WD used elsewhere but gravitating causing the components of the silicone moly to separate but i have heard theories on great pressure forces causing it...in an industry completed unrelated to the gun trade.
Its such mucky smell stuff anyway ...
Another good alternative is lubriplate ....the original white grease.....fine with just a dab now that we got Delrin guides and top hats etc.

[Barryg]

Forget all things Silicone now.....its gone lithium based greases...
Tony Walls St2 or ST1
Deal with silicone grease is when the silicone separates it will gall even hardened steel..
Thus ....its not so much the mix as in the case of Molys but when it separates out...
It can be something as simple as some Youngs or WD used elsewhere but gravitating causing the components of the silicone moly to separate but i have heard theories on great pressure forces causing it...in an industry completed unrelated to the gun trade.
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Who sells silicone moly grease? Is there such a thing.

[Airsporter1st]

Who sells silicone moly grease? Is there such a thing.

It would be easily possible to add MoS2 to silicone grease, so I guess there must be someone that has done it.


... and they have - see Dow Corning M77

[max headroom]

It would be easily possible to add MoS2 to silicone grease, so I guess there must be someone that has done it.


... and they have - see Dow Corning M77

see max at metzeler. it was my job. bloody mixing it with xylene and trychoethelene and melted wax.

[max headroom]

Who sells silicone moly grease? Is there such a thing.

got a couple of tubes left.