Your opinion: Best Carbon Remover

[JEFFPPC]

Most important.....soak. If you think you clean in 20 min after the match or in 0ne evening at home....not really. Soak

 

[Bruce W]

Its also helpful to clean at the range when the barrel is still warm . Also coat the bore before you leave the range to help loosen the crud. In spite of this and numerous soakings after shooting i still had a carbon issue that would not come clean. Possibly too light of a powder charge causing the trouble. Still in spite of all this . Nothing at this point has cleaned as well as the patch on a worn brush with the JB and Kroil or GM tec. Bruce

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

I've been working on my barrel with hard carbon build up on about the first 6 to 8 inches from the chamber. Soaking, bronze brushing, and JB on a patch with a jag. Very frustrating. Chems used: bore tech carbon, and copper products. Kroil, butches and yes even the highly touted GM top engine cleaner. I just tried the Al Nyhus patch on a worn brush with some GM tec . This so far has been the the most promising.It worked also with kroil but the GM seems a little better. Maybe from all the previous scrubbing and soaking it has loosened some. After 3 applications of short stroking the affected area it almost gone.This will be a regular to my cleaning regiment.Yes I have the Lyman bore cam to prove it worked. Thanks to all those experienced folks willing to contribute their knowledge to help out the less informed. Bruce

Try some CLR when you get tired of all the "carbon removers"

 

[Richard Coody]

Boretech C4 for typical carbon. Boretech eliminator really gets copper and carbon.

Now that hard carbon in the throat. Nothing works like losso or jb on a patch soaked in c4 and wrapped around a parker hale jag. Short stroke the throat and about.10" up the barrel. A borescope is nice to monitor that area to know how often hard carbon needs to be removed and when you truely have removed it.

 

[billlarson]

I use Mercury power tune. You can get it at any Mercury outboard dealer for about 10.00 bucks a can and it lasts a long time. I soak it for a couple hours and then brush with a nylon brush.

I use same process but I use GM TOP ENGINE CLEANER...
Bill

 

[J.d. Popkes]

How about carb-out?? I just picked up a can. Anybody have any luck with this??

 

[WIB3]

Flitz on a worn nylon brush. It also removes the carbon ring on revolver cylinders.

 

[Dgd6mm]

I've used GM TEC , CLR, and now giving Boretech C4 Carbon Remover which I'm liking a lot.

 

[Ccrider]

Flitz on a worn nylon brush. It also removes the carbon ring on revolver cylinders.

Regular Flitz?

 

[BenPerfected]

All the above....
Ben

 

[WIB3]

Regular Flitz?

Regular liquid Flitz. Flitz does make a bore cleaner. I have not seen any difference in carbon removal.Birchwood Casey also makes a lead remover/Polishing cloth that when cut into patches also does a fantastic job of removing carbon. I use to shoot stainless pistol revolvers on a regular basis. Getting rid of the carbon burn ring was almost impossible. These two products remove it effectively and quickly. I tested all so called carbon removal products on that .357mag ring, none do a better job. If you shoot handguns try it for yourself, seeing is believing.

 

[WIB3]

Do not allow the Flitz do dry inside of your match rifle, “soaking is not necessary “. I remove the residual with soaked patches of Marvel Mystery Oil. Prior to the Flitz I use Bore Tech Eliminator. Fantastic job on copper.

 

[Carter Shinavier]

I had some gnarly issues with Carbon. I tried Wipe-out-patch out with accelerator, butches bore shine, regular Boretech, Boretech C4, Ballistol, and wipe-out carb out. I wasnt even getting a dirty patch any longer after cleaning with all of these different products. Problem is, I got a bore scope and could see that the throat was still riddled with Carbon. I ordered some Iosso bore paste, and I was amazed at how it instantly got after the carbon. I'm a believer.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

I had some gnarly issues with Carbon. I tried Wipe-out-patch out with accelerator, butches bore shine, regular Boretech, Boretech C4, Ballistol, and wipe-out carb out. I wasnt even getting a dirty patch any longer after cleaning with all of these different products. Problem is, I got a bore scope and could see that the throat was still riddled with Carbon. I ordered some Iosso bore paste, and I was amazed at how it instantly got after the carbon. I'm a believer.

Carter, How did you use the Iosso paste: patch or brush?

 

[sqrlgtr]

I have just started using the bore tech carbon c4 and cooper eleminator stuff and have to say I like about as good as anything Ive used.Still have to get out the jb on some of the neglected stuff though.JB is the only paste type stuff Ive used oftened wondered if the losso or flitz is any better though??

 

[Mark Buettgen]

Flitz on a worn nylon brush. It also removes the carbon ring on revolver cylinders.

Hey Guy's
Flitz is a metal polish, it is going to remove metal and lap the bore making it smooth enough to now create a copper problem.
also Never use an abrasive on a brush of any kind, we've seen all kinds of damage from this practice. The brush does not follow the rifling and skips over it cutting the tops of the lands.
We have seen almost .002" scrubbed out of the bore by abrasives being used on brushes.
Later, Mark Buettgen
Bartlein Barrels

 

[WIB3]

Hey Guy's
Flitz is a metal polish, it is going to remove metal and lap the bore making it smooth enough to now create a copper problem.
also Never use an abrasive on a brush of any kind, we've seen all kinds of damage from this practice. The brush does not follow the rifling and skips over it cutting the tops of the lands.
We have seen almost .002" scrubbed out of the bore by abrasives being used on brushes.
Later, Mark Buettgen
Bartlein Barrels

Been using it for years and my match barrels have over 1000 rounds through them. Not to be argumentative but my targets and Hawkeye don’t lie.

 

[mike a]

Love these 9 year old threads

 

[Mark W]

Been using it for years and my match barrels have over 1000 rounds through them. Not to be argumentative but my targets and Hawkeye don’t lie.

Yea, the metal polish and bore cleaner are different stuff. I don’t use it often, but when I need to that Flitz bore cleaner really does the job!!!

 

[BenPerfected]

Been using it for years and my match barrels have over 1000 rounds through them. Not to be argumentative but my targets and Hawkeye don’t lie.

Mark, do you feel that nylon brushes are an issue using standard cleaning solvents?
Ben