How did they maintain their funs back then /k/? fighting back

>>32585988
Lots of oil and cleaning.

>>32586037

What kind of oil? Like animal fat oils or what? I mean, back then you could wander onto a battlefield or come across a gun like there was no tomorrow. Unless it was considered a luxury to maintain weapons.

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>>32586064
>>I mean, back then you could wander onto a battlefield or come across a gun like there was no tomorrow

>MFW I would've wandered from battlefield to battlefield collecting funs from around the world

>>32586064
>back then you could wander onto a battlefield or come across a gun like there was no tomorrow
Not really, guns were relatively cheap in comparison to many things, but not that cheap to be left laying around after battle.

>>32586064

Typically machine oils were also used for guns; local machinists would usually have some for sale. If there are no local machinists, you'd try to find any oil you could - lamp oil, etc.

If THAT wasn't around, then you'd settle for tallow - animal fat. Ideally, deer tallow would be fine, but people have resorted to pork fat as well. You'd want to avoid cow fat, as it gets sticky.

Also, most weapons didn't require lubrication in the mechanisms - just the bore. The mechanisms were often "oiled" using the literal sweat of the gun smiths assembling the weapons. Sweat is free and available, and an oily gunsmith could easily lubricate surfaces that would be configured loose-fitting by modern standards.

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>>32586220
>>32586220

>YFW you will never live in the Wild West where getting a lever action was 20$ and ammo was probably 7 cents

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>>32586287

So in a SHTF scenario and we run out of the HOPPE oils and what not. Then what? We butcher pigs for their fat and use that? Or left over vehicle oils? Could cooking oil or left over food oils from fast food work?

Is reenactment stolen valor?

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>>32587311

>Dubs
>Cooking oil

I myself am interested in this as well.

>MFW Stock up on cooking oil

>>32587358
Do NOT use vegetable oil.
Use mineral oil.

Vegetable oil will rust your shit to pieces. Did it to a glock feldmesser i had.

>>32587446

what if you refine it to biodiesel? Does that count?

>>32586347
20 dollars in 1875 is over 400 dollars today.

So can somebody explain what oils or lubricants you can make first hand without HOPPE or the other brands?

>>32587563
Fireclean is Crisco

>>32587311
Motor oil will work

>>32586064
Sperm whale oil was apparently great for cleaning and maintaining black powder firearms.

>>32585988
They didn't

>>32587501
$400 is a damn good deal for a lever action desu

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>How did they maintain their funs back then /k/?

Pre smokeless, it would depend on who you were.

As for cleaning, hot water and maybe some soap if you're fancy is enough to scrub black powder fowling from your gun.

but for maintaining, there were a lot of folk "remedies"

Trappers, longhunters frontiersmen, they would be using a lot of animal tallow. it makes an alright lube as well as protectant. it's also more readily accessible to these types than whale oil or something. Bees wax was also an option, but moreso in the places where bees were common (obviously)

one thing we can gleam from trade ledgers is the use of Olive Oil for maintaining firearms along the Mississippi river. it was traded by the shitload, often called "Sweet oil" at the time.


Personally, i like to use a mix of olive oil and beeswax.