NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, use WD-40 to clean a weapon. It will gum up the internal works.

I know people who use it, but I personally don't use it on my guns. I've always been told that on certain types of metal it can cause rust, plus I think it leaves a sticky film on everything.

Greets,
I used to use it as a finish lube on an old cap an vball revolver I own.. took the blueing off! ( maybe just because it was a kit gun I blued at home dont know ) I have reblued the poor thing three times now, but after the second I quit using WD-40, asked a gunsmith about it he recommended against it too.

Just my uneducated opinion!
Terry

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Most good machinist know that WD-40 will and can gum up after several years of usage. It also will prevent rust but is not near as effective as several other "Gun Oils" on the market. I am not sure why someone would want to use it? I see some of my friends doing it, and there only reason was "My Daddy used to say, it is better than anything out there". I tell them thats a pretty poor excuse. My parents used to tell me alot of things, and when I got older I found out alot of it was right but a whole lot of it was wrong. Besides, saying "my daddy said this or that", makes you sound like Forest Gump.

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Well, you don't sound like Forest now at least.

I've used it to dry out the metal parts of my shotguns after a wet day of duck hunting, but always followed it up with legitimate cleaning solvents and gun oil, but rarely use it for anything anymore. It will gum up mechanisms over time.

Good ole panther piss (wd-40) will eat grease or rust off about anything, but, I don't know that I'd use it on my guns. I got two .410s in REALLY rough shape from my dad a couple summers ago, I figured I'd try panther piss to loosen up the rust on the barrels and receiver. I sprayed it on and let it soak for a minute or two, then began rubbing the worst spots with steel wool to get out all the rust. I quickly noticed that neither gun was blued anymore. I had been using nitro solvent at first, but it didn't show much good, but the wd-40 ate EVERYTHING off. Maybe it was just the combination of the two, the nitro and the wd-40, or maybe just that the bluing was already in such bad repair. It might be worth it, but take caution, and don't try it on your prize rifle before testing it a time or two.

Guys,
listen to me and take this test:


Take a bowl and spray WD-40 into it.

Place bowl in your closet on the shelf (like you would store a gun)

After a month or so, retrieve bowl.

Examen the results of what happens to WD-40 after it sits for a period of time.



<font size=5>VARNISH!!!!!</font id=size5>

I make gun parts for a living at www.mgwltd.com
When we make parts we soak them in WD-40, and extra parts get put in plastic bins and put on the shelf. Later when we get another order, for those same parts, I dig them out. NASTY!! Brown varnish looking crap that clogs up my sand blaster and wont come out of little tiny cracks and corners until I soak them in acetone for about six hours and them blast them again.

I will not ever use WD-40 to oil a gun...... CLEANING IS OK IF YOU REMOVE ALL TRACES OF WD-40 before oiling with a good lube. I recomend something like Break-Free or any specific Gun oil.