by UnaStamus on Fri Sep 26, 2014 9:51 pm
Froglube does a decent enough job at cleaning, as well as lubricating. Most new guns have a coating of grease or other liquid rust inhibitor on them. You have to strip that stuff off. I use Slip2000 products, so some 725 Cleaner/Degreaser does wonders. You can use any kind of degreaser on it, be it Simple Green, a dedicated gun degreaser like 725, or Gun Scrubber. The thing to keep in mind is that degreasers DEGREASE, so you have to rehydrate the metal afterwards. We all know this, so I won't harp on it.
The premise behind Froglube is that you can use it one of two ways- impregnated lubricant or surface lubricant. When people use the paste, the directions call for heating the metal components and adding Froglube so that the pores absorb the lubricant. This in turn displaces crud in the metal. From here, you have a gun that has a layer of lubricant and you can add more as you use the gun. When it comes time to clean, you just wipe off the dirty residue and reapply. What Froglube doesn't mention is that you can just add the regular liquid Froglube on room temperature components and it works just fine. Metal will absorb lubricant in most conditions anyways. The Froglube does a decent job at cleaning the metal and displacing loose carbon. It's okay at eliminating heavy carbon deposits, but in all honesty there are better options designed specifically for the purpose of cleaning that do a better job at cleaning than Froglube.
Just clean the grease off and put on the Froglube like any other lubricant. They make it look far more complicated than it needs to be. I've used FrogLube for a couple years now in a controlled capacity for professional testing, and it's decent stuff. As a lubricant it's no better than the Slip2000 EWL that I have been using for a long time. It smells better, but other than that it's not really the "game changer" that people have billed it to be. Much of the hype behind Froglube came when Chris Costa started using it and endorsing, at which time all of his fanboys started singing the praises of it like it was the miracle cure for cancer or Hep C.