Scott

I wanted to chime in with two things, since lubricants (for the barrel and moving parts) are something I've been looking at lately. Vegetable oil, while offering great lubrication, comes at the price of easy oxidation - it seems to 'wear' off very quickly; if it doesn't wear off, it picks up little bits of dust and hair that seem to more than negate any gain from the lubrication.

One lubricant I've been looking at that I haven't actually tried yet is teflon-based - it comes in little tubes at radio shack, and I think it was originally intended for motors in CD drives. I know not many people want to plop down money on teflon tubing, but I was wondering how if anyone had had experience with teflon-based lubricants in, say, brass or PVC barrels.