Rail Lube

[SEW]

This has been a good, informative thread. I've used a light amt of rail lub(Railsnot), string wax and Scorpin serving Lub on both M380/405. Results: low serving wear, slight and concerning serving separation, and junked up trigger. I've been particularly careful to use rail lub sparingly, still.....

I'll try Arch Oil. I have my trigger out now and am cleaning it(405) while the rail is at Mike R's for fitting/drilling.

[coolhl]

I bought a couple of 380 Flemish Twist strings from Danny Miller not too long ago and asked him this exact question. He said to put NOTHING on the center serving or the rail! That's good enough for me, and makes horse sense. Anything that could possibly attract and hold dust and grit can't be good for the life of the center serving, string, rail or trigger assembly.

Having said that, using some very fine (1,000 grit) wet or dry sandpaper on the rail could only make it smoother, and there are modern slick coatings like McLube Sailcoat which dries almost instantly, sticks to hard surfaces with no residue when wiped clean, and doesn't attract or hold dust. Seems to me like doing this with the string removed could only increase the life of all the named components.

LS - that's exactly what the ARCHOIL 2400 is. A dry lube. It dries very quickly and seems to work similar to Rainex by filling in the metal at the micro level. Therefore it will not attract or hold any dirt or debris. In fact it makes it harder for anything to get on the rail. So IMO it's all good.

Keith, I have the AR4200 for my guns...any reason not to use that instead of the AR2400??
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[nchunterkw]

I don't see why not. both the 4200 and 2400 look to be very similar (use WS2)and both end up dry. I'm sure 4200 would be fine, just don't over do it. I do mine very sparingly.