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Powdercrank · 01-25-2005, 02:48 PM

Hi John,
The safety bar is simply hazy or frosty for some reason, there is no rust color at all on it.
As for Break Free, I learned with this very Luger that it can cause problems.
Sid had given it to me twenty years or so ago to check out to be sure it worked, as it was the only handgun at his home. Of course me being me, I had to shoot it, then cleaned it inside and out and lubed it up good all over with Break Free, which was the "Lube of the Month" as it were, at my local range. I then gave it back to him. Now fast forward to two years ago when he gave me the gun... He said he'd done nothing with it in the mean time. It sat on a shelf in a closet in it's holster all those years. It was gunked up very solidly. The L-bar in the sideplate was stuck, the firing pin was almost stuck, the toggle was very hard to operate. It's like the Break-Free turned to heavy brown grease. I had to use Q-Tips and sharpened popsicle sticks and toothpicks with kerosene to remove the residue. While I agree the stuff worked great as a preservative, and as a wonderful lubricant on ACTIVE guns, it can and will solidify over time. I kinda prefer Rem-Oil now, as I haven't observed this phenomenon with that material.

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01-25-2005, 02:48 PM	#11
Powdercrank User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North Central Indiana Posts: 13 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hi John, The safety bar is simply hazy or frosty for some reason, there is no rust color at all on it. As for Break Free, I learned with this very Luger that it can cause problems. Sid had given it to me twenty years or so ago to check out to be sure it worked, as it was the only handgun at his home. Of course me being me, I had to shoot it, then cleaned it inside and out and lubed it up good all over with Break Free, which was the "Lube of the Month" as it were, at my local range. I then gave it back to him. Now fast forward to two years ago when he gave me the gun... He said he'd done nothing with it in the mean time. It sat on a shelf in a closet in it's holster all those years. It was gunked up very solidly. The L-bar in the sideplate was stuck, the firing pin was almost stuck, the toggle was very hard to operate. It's like the Break-Free turned to heavy brown grease. I had to use Q-Tips and sharpened popsicle sticks and toothpicks with kerosene to remove the residue. While I agree the stuff worked great as a preservative, and as a wonderful lubricant on ACTIVE guns, it can and will solidify over time. I kinda prefer Rem-Oil now, as I haven't observed this phenomenon with that material.