Matlack
Scribe
- Dec 15, 2008
- 8,559
I am posting this based on what I have seen elsewhere. Please be careful mixing your own "secret sauce". For reference, grease is just oil that has a thickener. Not all oils react well with one another and not all thickeners react well with different oils. Most oils have some sort of agent to improve this, that or the other thing; IE corrosion or wear for a specific use or material. Those agents can react in ways that you did not intend. #1 rule of thumb, dont mix synthetic with non-synthetic. Your best solution is to determine what the base oil in your grease and thin it out with that. Most importantly, dont mix random greases and oils you have sitting around your garage. It can cause serious issues with corrosion and wear. Based on some of the posts I have seen elsewhere from people mixing random stuff they just happen to have on hand. Please just be careful with what you are mixing and using for lubrication in your firearms and elsewhere.