Funshow!
Spent a little time this morning with Parther at the Crown Point Funshow, where we saw lots of the finest kinds of beef jerkey and fudge one ever encounters.
Actually, I’m sure some of the jerkey and peperrettes are so old they have geologic born-on dates, and the guy selling chocolate… well, would you eat chocolate that had been exposed to the gun oil and halitosis and sweat of several thousand gun nuts? Me neither. I have to admit when I see the boxes of chocolate and fudge laying out there, I think, “Damn, I’d liek a handful of malted milk balls.”
Just not those.
Ran into Mr B and Midwest Chick, who gave us the whole demo of the Strike Hold stuff.
Srsly, I had no idea this was a firearm product. I swear to god, i thought it was a glue you sprayed on hooks to hold on to fish strikes.
Anyway, I was impressed enough that I took a small can home to test, and I will be testing it at an upcoming range session. I did use a little to wipe down the M1 carbine, and I have to say, it seems to do an excellent job of what it is billed to do. I ran a swab down the barrel of the Carbine after spraying some there, and there was a little spot in the barrel I assumed was a rust pit, and now it’s gone. Now I like my Carbine even more than before; thanks Strike Hold!
Still seems like a wierd name. lets see, it cleans, lubricates, and displaces water, you could call it three in one.. no, that’s taken. Hey, water Displacement! You could call it WD-… no, that won’t work.
Apparently Strike Hold it is. Maybe the only legal name they had left. Guess it could have ended up with something like “Edna Purvis”
Some years back we had a power outage on a Sat. night. No kerosene in the house and one stinkin’ candle. Anyway I fished around in the snakepit and found a half gallon of WD-40. Thinkin’ ‘it’s petroleum and it burns’, I filled an old kerosene lamp with it, soaked the wick and lit it. Worked fine and didn’t stink. Another use for WD-40.
Nowadays, I keep at least ten gallons of kero on hand along with three wick lamps, an Aladdin and one of those Japanese heaters. I do not like to be in the dark and cold while listening to a crappy radio while I make coffee on a campstove. There are at least six propane canisters for the stove stashed in the snake pit too. As the Boy Scouts beat into my head all those years ago, “Be Prepared”.
Learn it, Live it, Love it.
Gerry N.
WD40 Is a miracle in a can. I looked after my guns with WD40, 3in1 and for fouling I made a home made elixir called weasel piss that had kerosene and ammonia in it that would rot your balls off if you smelt it.
Strike Hold also does a good job cleaning dirty “pots” in electronic equipment.
Gerry, you just reminded me: I need another jug of lamp oil for the ‘just in case’ stuff.
Got a can of SH at Tulsa, trying it out. Need to pick a .22 rifle and pistol, strip and treat them and then shoot hell out of them and see how it does.
Firehand:
When you use yer Strike-Hold in the test, make sure you DRY the treated surfaces…..Spray on, wipe clean, then wipe DRY…
if you leave it wet, you will collect dirt, and carbon, and all that schmutz…