Magazine maintenance...

[PRD1]

Thanks for the tip!
I've never been a fan of WD40 too liberally applied - if allowed to build-up over time, it can make the darndest varnish you've ever seen. I do use it as a solvent, and sometimes in a VERY light coating for rust prevention in the short term, but am careful to dry it off and out of any mechanism.
The problems I have been interested in resolving are those found in magazines which have been neglected for decades: they become full of dried oil, grease, powder residue, dust, etc., which accumulate in the magazine tube and on all the internal parts as well - while a basically clean magazine can be maintained without complete disassembly, it seems to me that only drastic cleaning can remove the accumulated gunk of ages.
And most military pistol magazines seem to be designed to permit more-or-less complete disassembly for cleaning without the difficulties caused by the Luger magazine's construction.
I guess it is just something we'll have to put up with - and keep our magazines as clean as possible by regular maintenance, thus avoiding the necessity to take them completely apart very often.
PRD1 - mhb - Mike