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Nut greese?


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On 10/29/2016 at 7:55 PM, GRA said:

I've used Aeroshell 33.  It's what's recommended but it's not absolute.  Basically anything without a graphite content can be used.

Exactly. I've disassembled M16's (not even M16A1's so we're talking early to mid-60's) and had no problem breaking the barrel nut free. AeroShell 33 works. But, so will most moly greases that don't contain graphite. 

Around 2001-2002, we had to convert all of our remaining M16's into M16A2's, and so I spent a LOT of time as a young small arms repairman disassembling original M16's for the conversion to A2 and stripping parts off them for demill-ing. The sad thing was, many of the M16's we converted were as early as 4-digit serial numbers, so it broke my heart to tear them apart and see the old parts demilled.

Survivalshop- yeah, agreed. I've broke down 40+year old M16 barrel nuts without issue. 

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