well, i left my moly grease at a friend’s house. he lives about a 5 hour drive away. he said he’d mail the little phial back to me, but he never got around to it.
anyway, i was working on a couple builds and i realized that i didn’t have any sort of anti-seize compound on hand, so i decided to use some Vaseline. i was just putting together lowers, using factory built uppers…i don’t think i’d ever try to use Vaseline as anti-seize on a barrel nut or anything.
what do you think about using it for the receiver extension? if i wouldn’t use it on the barrel nut, should that alone tell me that i shouldn’t have used it on the receiver extension? was this a bad idea or a decent improvisation? let me know, please.
I wouldn’t use it but that’s me. You do realize that the moly in the moly grease is what makes it appropriate for the job in the same way that the copper or nickel in the anti-seize compound allow it to correctly function? The auto parts store should have moly grease and anti-seize in stock.
neither of them is staked yet, as i was thinking of swapping some parts around. if i take off the REs later i’ll use the proper stuff when re-assembling.
Head straight to your bathroom and smack the guy in the mirror. ;p
Vaseline will dry out and what’s left won’t do what you want it to. It’s quite probable it’ll do the opposite. Get the right stuff and tell your friend he’s off the lender list. ;p
