I've noticed that the best gun oils tend to have silicone in them.......

WD40 is also the culprit behind a lot of damage to bearings - being mostly kero it is great for removing grease and foreign particles from bearings, but it isn't a very good lubricant in it its own right. The old 3 in 1 oil or Singer sewing machine oil is good for small bearings as found on router bits, etc.

I think baby oil is not exactly the same with machine oil. From my experience, baby oil has low viscosity which is OK for submerge something into it but not quite good when you apply the oil onto metal surface.

About the vegetable oil, there is some water and oxidizing agent in the oil so it won't be perfect, just passable.

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Seeing as I seem my name mentioned I thought to poke my head up with some extra info.

The G15 was developed for the Auto industry but has found uses in just about any place you can think of corrosion protection of clean metal.
And that quite frankly is the simple explanation as to why it works so well. Nothing more need be said.


But here's some more anyway:
The company that developed and make it (Australian Inhibitor) are based in Melbourne, and wholly Australian owned you might be pleased to know.
They are predominantly an R&D and auto manufacturing supply business hence why people like me, and other distributors like CarbaTec, and Jim Davey, and so on sell the G15 to you guys. Aus Inhib is not into marketing and selling small Qty's to the public, which is where I come in.

Enjoy!

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