Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-31275992-20171212013349/@comment-27306930-20171212074508

You've got a couple things going on here TMDGE. First of all,

Vegetable oil :

Let's start there. Vegetable oil is a biotech product. As such, it's a super cheap, readily available, super slippery lubricant. But it also biodegrades over time (usually a pretty short time) and becomes gooey and sticky. In its last stages it becomes a form of  tacky  glue that's really hard to get off - usually after two years.

Short term, olive/vegetable/canola oils seems like an effective,  super cheap, lubricant, that mom keeps around by the quart. But long term it's gonna gum up and wreck everything. I mean everything !

My advice, stick to synthetic silicones and lithium greases. WD-40 can also be a good starting point, but it evaprorates over time. OMW lithiium works great as a long term lube.

'''Snap! vs. Paf!''' :

What you're hearing is excess lube in the AR. (aka, being too generous with the vegetable oil)  It's also a sign that there's binding already occurring in the Air Restrictor. Hammershots normally go *PUF!*   So if you're getting a *SNAP!*, the air restrictor is already starting to bind. I'm sorry  TMDGE, it might be time for an overhaul, clean out, and full synthetic lube.

But who nows, I might have had too many vodkas tonight, and don't know what the heck I'm talking about. It's, um, you're call  😁