LSA oil for gun lubrication

[akdreams]

Does anyone use LSA oil as a gun lubricant. I see it in all of the army surplus stores but have been hesitant to try it. Anyone have any info on the stuff?

[JA]

Lubricant,Small Arms it is just plain old thin oil.
Try to find what the military uses now CLP(Cleaner Lubricant Preservative)MIL-L-0063460C 9150-01-053-6688 It does it all and has teflon in it too. If you can't find any surplus CLP the same stuff is sold commerically as "Breakfree CLP"

[STLRN]

When ever my unit shot machine guns, we always used LSA-T (teflon). It comes in a large white tube, and starts out as grease but thins out.

[Heavy Metal]

JA,
The plain old thin oil you are refering to is marked as PL or Penetrating Lubricant. I have an old can of it I use for honing oil and to wipe down the outside of my guns. Basically, it is 3 in 1 oil. LSA is good, viscous stuff and is at least as good a lube as CLP. It seems to stay put better and have the properties of a light grease. I would have no hesitation using it. It does not have the cleaning properties of CLP, however, and you will need a seperate bore solvent.

[JA]

I have a small green plastic bottle marked LSA lubricant,small arms with the mil spec numbers printed on the bottle. I noticed that when I used it to lub my rifles that is had the same viscosity as the oil that came in the Outers cleaning kit.

[Heavy Metal]

Did you shake the crap out of it first? The stuff I use looks like mayonase.

[JA]

Yes I did and it is light brown just like regular oil.

[Heavy Metal]

Hmmm.....
I am stumped.
There is an ongoing LSA thread at ar15.com right now http://forums.ar15.com/Forum6/HTML/000401.html

All the stuff I have used was white.

[JA]

The bottle I have is 15 years old. I guess they changed the spec's.