Technical Aspects of the SOLGW SPEC76 Lube
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- čas přidán 1. 12. 2023
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For the guys into the more technical aspects of stuff.
In the spirit of solgw transparency I wanted to do a couple vids answering questions I've gotten on the SPEC76.
Like always, we invite scrutiny. It's good shit and I'm excited to make it available.
If you gotten some let me know your feedback. - Zábava
I have some you guys and it’s an amazing lube. Every lube company says it’s stays put AND THEY DONT every lube will fall to gravity BUT this lube not only stays in place but it continues to seek metal. ESP metal with a phosphate coating like SOLGW bcgs. It just crawls to anywhere it needs to be. It kind of soaks in and when it gets hot it gets wet again. It’s an amazing product.
Very convincing gentlemen. I just ordered some. We shall see...
Update: This stuff is very lubricious yet it also seems to somehow stay where its applied instead of just sliding off like many other types of thin lubes. I used it on a Glock 43x and an di bcg. I'm definetely satisfied and I'll likely buy more when I run out.
Looks great! And completely OOS every where. Which seems to be a typical gun industry move….develop the next newest and amazing product and then actually produce about a dozen to sell. Maybe next year…
I've been using it for about 6 months or so, in my pistols and rifles. Granted, I'm not shooting thousands of rounds at a time, but so far I have been impressed with it. Finally a gun lube that doesn't burn off the internals. Has a smell that kinda grows on you, but as long as it works great, it could smell like cat piss and I wouldn't care. I will continue to use it. And, yes, I tried the SOTAR mix, but gravity is not your friend with that stuff. Does it work? Yes. But this Spec76 stuff is better.
How's it do as far as come time for cleaning? I just started using the stuff and noticed it practically stains everything it touches. Does it wipe off well and take some carbon and muck with it or does it need some TLC when cleaning time comes? Used it on both my LWRC & DD pretty generously but decided to hold off on my pistols.... I was worried it would be really difficult to clean off of the pistols lowers and all the tiny cracks it can get into.
While my home mix of bearing grease and synthetic motor oil works great, it gets a zero in the corrosion inhibitor column. I work in the oil and gas industry in a tech job. I understand where this is coming from. I’m interested in it just to test on some old BCG parts and bare metal to see how it “protects” the finish when introduced to a little humidity and salt.
How does bearing grease mixed with oil get a zero? Isn't oil fairly decent at protecting against rust?
What drives me nuts is that practically all companies that put out any kind of lubricant make corrosion resistance the top shelf priority in the claims department. It's EXTREMELY rare for a company to actually put out a friction test and / or comparison of any kind. I totally understand why corrosion / rust protection would be on your top priority list given your environment but for the majority of us this is a complete non-issue. I want to know how well this stuff is going to protect the high wear parts of my firearms as well as see a live temperature index to see if the product can keep these high friction points cooler for longer than the competition.
Just get some of that old-school master race, fireclean! LOLs
Just get some frog lube, derp.
I was always taught to use what’s at hand… my rifle doesn’t seem to like lotion for some reason tho
Buy a quart of good 5w30 full synthetic (amsoil, Mobil 1, royal purple) and a tube of quality synthetic bearing grease and mix them together until you get your desired consistency. You'll have around 1.5 quarts of quality lube that will last for years.
All of that is more expensive and a pain to mix compared to buying the Spec 76. Spec 76 should last you that long too.
I know it's difficult to pay more per ounce, but sometimes we got to look at the whole picture.
Ehh, ill stick with my sotar mix. Cheaper and lasts way longer.
I’ll stick with SOTAR oil/grease home brew. It works, why change…
All of that is more expensive and a pain to mix compared to buying the Spec 76. Spec 76 should last you that long too.
I know it's difficult to pay more per ounce, but sometimes we got to look at the whole picture.
Just goe easy on it for Christ sake.
@@5jjt I have personally and professionally used Mobile 1 synthetic oil and synthetic grease for decades now, and NEVER had any issues, period.
I'm a huge SOTAR fan, and was pleased to find out the he (Chad) does exactly the same thing.
I have nothing against Mike and SOLGW, they are in the business to MAKE MONEY, which I'm also a fan of!
But your thought process is naïve.
The SPEC 76 lube is $15.00 for 2 OUNCES, add in shipping and handling and you're close to about $25.00,
So the break down really is about $12.50 per ounce.
You can literally go to any auto parts store or even Walmart and purchase a quart of Mobile 1 synthetic oil for $13.00, and you can also get a tub of the Mobile 1 synthetic grease of $12.00. Add that up and you're $25.00 into both oil and grease.
Regarding mixing the two, it's very simple. Dump the grease into a small bucket, pour half the oil into the same bucket.....and mix!
(Yes, getting it into a squeeze bottle is messy! I personally use Tupperware containers and a small brush!)
As you know a "quart" is 32 ounces, and a pound is 16 ounces.
If you only use half of the quart of oil and mix that with the entire pound of grease, you will have ...........16 + 16 = 32 ounces of oil / grease mixture.
Now, you spent $25.00 for the oil and grease, and now you have 32 ounces of the "SOTAR sauce" mixture........
Divide that $25.00 by 32 ounces and you have $0.78 cent PER ounce.
Here's the "whole picture"
Order on line and spend $12.50 per ounce / $25.00 for 2 ounces of SPEC 76
or
Spend $25.00 for Mobile 1 synthetic oil and grease,
use 10 minutes of your time to mix it.
You have 32 ounces of a blended synthetic lubricant for $0.78 cent per ounce.
Oh BTW, you still have 16 ounces of oil to use!
I'd prefer to spend my money in other ways! Do as you will!
Forget industry etiquette! Maybe comparing products will get other companies to invest in their industry and bring us up to date instead of being 20-30 years behind.
I just went to purchase some and it’s out of stock on your website. Wow. Bummer.
I grabbed a bottle off of optics planet
Soooo.... This stuffs different than the machine gunners lube or the sprinco stuff? Or is it the exact same recipe?
The chemist literally just explained how he designed it. Or, did I miss something?
@@5jjt SOLGW has a past with machine gunners lube and are very close with the owner of sprinco. I have both of these lubes and they're literally indistinguishable from one another. Both have the exact same color, exact same lubricity, exact same smell that smells nothing like any other firearms lubricant I've smelled. They both act exactly the same in pistol and rifle as well. I have some more tests I'd like to do to truly compare but I personally see zero difference.
@@TerminalM193 I’m sure you’re right, everyone has to put there name on something for marketing purposes, I don’t see this being noticeably better than something like Lucas extreme, the blue stuff.
@@TerminalM193I got a big bottle of Sprinco MGL. I love the way it smells. Have you done anymore tests to see how it compares to SPEC76?
@@Joe_Friday I actually have! I have two different rifles that I run pretty hard in classes as well as when I get the opportunity to help train. My 16.1" LWRC IC DI has been lubed specifically with Spec76 while my 12.5 BCM gets the sprinco mgl.
The smell between the two are very similar but DEFINITELY not identical. So far from my testing the Spec76 is showing to have better performance in all aspects. Both of the lubricants seem to be the same viscosity, "Spec76 might be a tad bit thicker". The Spec76 tends to stay right where you put it better than mgl and does a great job at taking contaminates and removing them from all the friction spots. Spec is also better when it comes to cleaning so I will literally but a very thin coat of the spec on the entire inside of the upper which makes cleaning much easier.
Both are GREAT lubricants. If I didn't have the spec I would be using mgl on litteraly all my firearms before using any other firearm lubricant and trust me, I've tried them all.
I don’t doubt it works…. But yall gotta give some reason why people should pay 3-4x more other then a specto-grapho-radio-reading about ionization and lubricity
Just my opinion! Everybody says the have some magic lube, that's better than everybody else's. The whole key in lube is price! 90% of every gun owner, is just going to get the cheapest lube they can get their hands on, and 5% using what lube military uses. 2% competition shooters, and influencers, might buy some specialty lube, but mainly use their sponsored lubes. 1% avid shooters buying top brand specialty lubes. then there is 1% are looking for what you are selling, at 3x the price as every other lube on the market, just because its branded SOLGW, and the last 1% are using their own lube concoction! but what would make a poor such as myself, want to go even more broke, or spend even more buying your product? That will only be able to be used minimally, & not near what we would want vs buying lower priced products from other reputable manufacturers like Diamondback, Radical, BCA, AERO, even Anderson etc. just to name a few. to whom which are less than half the cost, and offer a similar warranty or just as good. I don't want a gun because everybody else says its good, I want a gun that speaks for itself. However at SOLGW prices I guess I will never know. I never even physically held, or seen SOLGW in person accept for online, especially hear in London, Kentucky
Then, how do you know these other brands are just as good?
@@5jjtDon’t bother with that dude sounds like PSA is even out of his range who would ever guess that! I sure didn’t 🤷♂️.
Meh, my oil grease mix is super cheap and hasn't failed me or fallen short.