Evening, any thoughts on Froglube paste? A buddy of mine sent me a complimentary container of this yesterday to test out
Ken
IIRC it's coconut oil.
Not saying that it is therefore bad, but I am pretty sure the lab tests showed that is what it is.
Thanks, I have read a number of reviews and many speak very highly of it. If it's actually any good, that remains to be seen
Ken
Most of the bad press comes from forums, not from reviewers. That could be market at work (people don't usually get paid to say bad things about a product) or it could be a couple of disgruntled users that are sounding off.
Thinking about it and reading the Frog Lube instructions, while knowing that it is a vegetable oil, it makes me think of seasoning a cast iron or carbon steel skillet. I like to cook and long ago learned how to season a skillet. Teflon and other modern coatings don't hold a candle to the quality of the crust you can form on a steak in a properly seasoned iron or steel skillet.
But...If you over-oil the skillet during the seasoning process you get a gummy, unusable mess that has to be removed. I would imagine that with Frog lube you are effectively seasoning the steel parts of your gun. That is applying a thin coating of oil that will polymerize in heat. Extending this analogy, the problem most people have when seasoning a skillet is the over-oil it. Success with skillets comes when you think you have removed the 'excess' oil and then you wipe it one last time with a dry paper towel.
I would be very curious to know how a steel gun would handle a traditional "seasoning" cycle. Apply a light coat of oil, heat to 300° for an hour and let cool. This temp is well below the annealing range of carbon steel (550°F-750°F) and is the same cure temperature and time as Cerakote. I have a CZ-75 that is quite ugly waiting for a refinish. Perhaps I will parkerize and then "season" it to see what I get.