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WD-40 works great as a lubricant when milling,drilling and tapping aluminum- good finish & tooling doesn't clog.

I've read that before. I don't remember just when I first came across WD-40, but it has been a part of my supplies ever since, both for it's intended purpose, and many others.

In the 70's when I was in the reserves our weapons would be turned into the armory after a weekend drill. They would be cleaned, inspected, and a light coat of oil would be applied before they were turned in. The next month upon checkout they would be coated with surface rust and needless to say our C.O. was anything but happy. After a couple of months of this is was discovered that the armorer was spraying the weapons with WD-40 after they were turned in and it was promoting the surface rust. The use of WD-40 was stopped immediately and since that time the only thing I've used it for is help in breaking loose rusted bolts and nuts.

Yep. A bunch of people think it's an oil, when it's not. It's great for cleaning and a million other things, but, it evaporates quickly thus not a good replacement for oil!
Since you brought up guns, have you tried Gunzilla? It is a synthetic cleaner and lubricant which has eliminated alot of problems for US troops In Iraq and Afganistan. It can be used as a wet coat or dry film depending on where you use it. Our local gun shop just switched to using it for all their cleaning.