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Evening,

I've just finished stripping my Marlin down to remove 30 years of crud from the receiver & internal parts sign01

Question is on reassembly do I lubricate everything & provide a great key for new crud to stick to or do I assemble it dry & just spray some Brunox in there once I'm done?

Cheers,

Mick.

I don't know the 'correct' answer, but last time I stripped mine down I just put a little smear of gun oil (using a cotton bud) on the bits that had gone shiny from contact...seemed to work well...

I just very lightly lube all moving parts, more of an oily rag approach rather than actually oiling. Absolutely nothing on the firing pin though. Due to the tight firing pin tunnel in the bolt, oil or grease on the pin will pick up so much crap that you will start to get light strikes.

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Just put a very light coat on the top of the bolt where it runs inside the receiver. Wear on the finish will show where there is contact when it's running. You could also apply a little grease where the lever pivots in the trigger plate. Everything else leave dry.

I also run mine almost dry.
Shoot avg 100rds every week, strip and clean every 3 months, no problems.

I've only ever stripped the bolt once and the gun was used when I got it four years ago, so goodness knows what the true round count is. Found the firing pin channel and pin were fine, so I wouldn't strip the bolt again unless I had firing problems.

All I do for cleaning now is take lever and bolt out, give them the brunox treatment, wipe out any crap from the chamber then reassemble.

Ammo is 105gr hard cast swc with alox lube over 3.2gr of bullseye. Chrono checked at around 250ft lbs, no barrel leading and accurate for 25yds. My log shows over 2000 of those down the barrel in the last two years. It's a micro groove barrel. This light load doesn't fully expand the cases in the chamber so a little soot can build up, just wipe out with a rag every 200 rounds or so.

Cheers !
Paul M

Thanks all.

Just a thought why not use molyslip on the moving parts such as we used to use on the slides of semi-autos years ago. It's clean as you virtually wipe it on and wipe it off. After all you only want to leave a few micros of lubrication on it.