[krieghoffkrusher]

To all the k-80 owners out there - What is the proper way to lubricate the gun?

 

[Charles L. Schmidt]

Put a spot of grease less than the size of a pea in each hinge pin socket. And coat BOTH surfaces where forend iron meets receiver real well. Maybe a slight amount on the two flats on each side of the barrel block.

Clean it all off real well after shooting and you’re ready to go again. cls

 

[K-80 Jim]

Here's a very good article that should help.

Jim

 

[Big Bopper]

I'd like to see that info as well. What do you guys prefer for cleaning the bores? Thanks, Bob

 

[AveragEd]

One thing to avoid is the semi-popular idea of using oil instead of grease. The theory is that if oil can protect engines from metal transfering between parts that are moving quite fast and under a lot of heat and pressure, it ought to do a great job on a break-open gun. I posed that question to Krieghoff International a few years ago and was told that oil will not work on a gun because in engines, there is an oil pump that constantly flushes those moving parts with filtered oil. There is no pump in a gun, so the oil film that you put there eventually wears through.

For what it's worth...

Ed

 

[smartass]

What Ed said, plus ignore the bizarrely idiotic theory that grease attracts dirt but oil doesn't. Some goofball invariably trots that one out.