Ok guys getting some of these markers put together and while I have grease(some old lurker lube idk if that's still being made it's like 10+ years old) I don't have any gun oil, what oil is everyone using to lube their mech guns, I know back in the day gold cup and tri flow were the best but IDK they are still being made either
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Harbor freight air tool oil
It's like $5 for a 16oz bottle. Why spend $8 for 0.5oz just because it has a paintball brand on it?
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Synthetic air tool oil - I forget which brand - for old school stuff. Less gummy than the regular after sitting for a couple years. (Many of my guns go unused for a while.)
Superlube for o-rings (they have both oils and greases, but I don't usually grab their oil for paintball stuff. It's on a high shelf.)Feedback
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I forget which one, but at least one big name old school oil (maybe the old AKA lube?) was actually a high end purified form of automatic transmission fluid without the red dye and a few other additives removed. And one "paintball specific" oil sold at a lot of big box stores, from PMI I think?, was a suspiciously red fluid, so a good chance just off the shelf ATF.
I personally used a good old quart of ATF from the gas station in my old BE guns for a number of years without issue.
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I've been recommending KC/Outlast for literally decades. I have three or four bottles on the workbench at any given time, and somewhere around here, I have a big 8-ounce bottle.
I do have some old Gold Cup (cheap air-tool oil) as well as various bottles of things like Rem-oil, that I've either been given or were in with batches of parts or tools I've bought, and I use those occasionally for noncritical uses, but 95% of the time, when I'm working on a marker, it gets Outlast.
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Where are you getting that, if I may ask? A field to my south runs Pro-lites for rentals, and he swears that's the only lube they'll function with, but sourcing it has become a concern.
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Not sure why your field owner thinks that...I own a Pro-Lite and I've used a bunch of different oils in it over the years and its worked fine. Of course, its started to give me problems recently but I think that's more how its almost thirty years old and I've never cracked into the valve to clean it, plus it sat in a shipping container for almost 20 years while I wasn't playing. Honestly I'm amazed it still shoots period.
But yeah in my experience Tippmanns aren't fussy about anything, oil especially. Just don't try to use grease or WD-40 and you're good.
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