Carbon cutting fluid

[foxguy]

thanks, when first mentioned I thought it was a nic-name for some home made solution.

 

[JLT]

I keep mine in a glass eyedropper bottle. but in a short time it will dissolve the rubber part of the eye dropper.

Try a needle oiler. Easy to stow in your range bag (capped, of course!) and good application control.

 

[6MMsteve]

hillyards stainless steel cleaner will remove carbon in a flash but it's 70.00 a can for aerosol, don't have a bore scope but cleaned barrel for 2 days with soak, then used the aerosol and black and brown rolled out the barrel when i sprayed it in. I was getting tight patches or rough feeling at throat area after I sprayed this in and brushed, patches slid right thru with no resistence. it may have cut all the metal out lol

 

[rardoin]

hillyards stainless steel cleaner will remove carbon in a flash but it's 70.00 a can for aerosol, don't have a bore scope but cleaned barrel for 2 days with soak, then used the aerosol and black and brown rolled out the barrel when i sprayed it in. I was getting tight patches or rough feeling at throat area after I sprayed this in and brushed, patches slid right thru with no resistence. it may have cut all the metal out lol

Try 'Sheila Shine' ....less than $10 per can...likely the same thing. I have used this for years on stainless boat railings/fixed gear and in my kitchen. I am going to try it in a barrel next cleaning just for poops and giggles...who knows???

 

[Comrade Terry]

hillyards stainless steel cleaner will remove carbon in a flash but it's 70.00 a can for aerosol, don't have a bore scope but cleaned barrel for 2 days with soak, then used the aerosol and black and brown rolled out the barrel when i sprayed it in. I was getting tight patches or rough feeling at throat area after I sprayed this in and brushed, patches slid right thru with no resistence. it may have cut all the metal out lol

Less than $70 for a case of 12. https://orders.prosanonline.com/g/H...inless-Steel-Cleaner-and-Polish-15-oz-Net-Wt/

 

[6MMsteve]

Less than $70 for a case of 12. https://orders.prosanonline.com/g/H...inless-Steel-Cleaner-and-Polish-15-oz-Net-Wt/

ok I was asleep when I wrote that lol

 

[rardoin]

OK...after reading the post on Hillyard's stainless cleaner I pulled a spray can of Sheila Shine from under my sink and decided to clean a barrel on a gun (6.5 Creedmoor/ Bartlein barrel with 540rds total) last fired 68ds about 2 weeks ago and put up without cleaning (I usually spray some foaming bore cleaner after a match and clean the next day but I got lazy after really sucking at the match) I wet a patch with Sheila Shine and pushed it out the bore and I was impressed on the carbon pushed out on the first pass. I soaked two more patches and pushed them through with very light fouling on the third patch. I wet a nylon Iosso brush with the stuff and gave it 12 strokes the pushed out another moderately dirty patch. After a few more wet patches it appeared clean. I scoped the bore and noticed only a few streaks of carbon mid pipe in the grooves. The chamber 1/3 and the muzzle 1/3 were quite clean except for some copper. I then cleaned out the copper with Boretech Cu remover and the aluminum jag was clean after about 8 wet patches. This barrel cleaned up a bit quicker than previous cleanouts. I was having issues getting enough carbon out to make the copper solvent more effectual and the Sheila Shine, a commercial stainless steel surface cleaner, did seem to cut my cleaning time down. I'm going to try it on my other comp rifle after about 40 more testing rounds to get the count up to near 80 since last cleanout. It definitely outperformed other products I have tried including boretech carbon eliminator, Shooter' Plus products, Sea Foam, Kroil, Hoppe's #9, and wipeout/patch out including accelerator. (I foam the bore with Wipeout spray after a match.) If I get the results I am looking for in the other barrel I think I have found a cheaper and at least equally, if not more effective, solution than I have currently been using.

 

[pmg]

I learned about fluid film on a truck undercoating forum and was amazed of all its uses. Yeah crawling under the truck and spraying it, about 6 cans wasn't the most fun but my frame is still black not brown and black. I've not tried it in my barrels yet but wipe down the outside of the guns with it. I also wipe down carbon blades and as a leather boot preservative. It's lanolin.

 

[holstil]

I like learning of old stuff that works. Especially for more than one purpose.

For carbon, I find the trick is to get it while it's hot. Literally! Comes right out with about any cleaning agent I've put down the tube wet. Currently using wipe out. Love that stuff. Worse case scenario for me has been to do it twice, wet nylon brush then three patches, done. I give the throat extra attention every three hundred rounds with some abrasive polishing compound.
Jim

 

[USMCDOC]

OK...after reading the post on Hillyard's stainless cleaner I pulled a spray can of Sheila Shine from under my sink and decided to clean a barrel on a gun (6.5 Creedmoor/ Bartlein barrel with 540rds total) last fired 68ds about 2 weeks ago and put up without cleaning (I usually spray some foaming bore cleaner after a match and clean the next day but I got lazy after really sucking at the match) I wet a patch with Sheila Shine and pushed it out the bore and I was impressed on the carbon pushed out on the first pass. I soaked two more patches and pushed them through with very light fouling on the third patch. I wet a nylon Iosso brush with the stuff and gave it 12 strokes the pushed out another moderately dirty patch. After a few more wet patches it appeared clean. I scoped the bore and noticed only a few streaks of carbon mid pipe in the grooves. The chamber 1/3 and the muzzle 1/3 were quite clean except for some copper. I then cleaned out the copper with Boretech Cu remover and the aluminum jag was clean after about 8 wet patches. This barrel cleaned up a bit quicker than previous cleanouts. I was having issues getting enough carbon out to make the copper solvent more effectual and the Sheila Shine, a commercial stainless steel surface cleaner, did seem to cut my cleaning time down. I'm going to try it on my other comp rifle after about 40 more testing rounds to get the count up to near 80 since last cleanout. It definitely outperformed other products I have tried including boretech carbon eliminator, Shooter' Plus products, Sea Foam, Kroil, Hoppe's #9, and wipeout/patch out including accelerator. (I foam the bore with Wipeout spray after a match.) If I get the results I am looking for in the other barrel I think I have found a cheaper and at least equally, if not more effective, solution than I have currently been using.

Was your the older "cleaner" or now the new "polish"?