Cleaning With Bore Tech

[yukonal]

So I wouldn't step on the Sweet's thread, I thought I'd start a new one.

If I need to do a real thorough cleaning, and use both copper cleaner, AND carbon cleaner...is there a particular order they should be used in to maximize their efficiency?

 

[FeMan]

From my experience, the carbon and copper seem to get layered up. I therefore start with the carbon and patch, soak and repeat until things start cleaning up pretty good. I then switch to copper cleaner and do the same pattern. Once the copper traces are gone, I switch back to carbon if the barrel had a lot of rounds on it and run that cycle once more.

I do not brush a lot, but do use a few passes of a stiff nylon brush once I get things looking pretty clean. That helps speed up the job without running too much crud up and down the barrel.

I am not sure there is a right or wrong, but that's the method I've landed on after many years of trying different things. BTW, I use Boretech for both and think they do a really good job. Especially the Boretech Carbon.

 

[farmerjohn]

From my experience, the carbon and copper seem to get layered up. I therefore start with the carbon and patch, soak and repeat until things start cleaning up pretty good. I then switch to copper cleaner and do the same pattern. Once the copper traces are gone, I switch back to carbon if the barrel had a lot of rounds on it and run that cycle once more.

I do not brush a lot, but do use a few passes of a stiff nylon brush once I get things looking pretty clean. That helps speed up the job without running too much crud up and down the barrel.

I am not sure there is a right or wrong, but that's the method I've landed on after many years of trying different things. BTW, I use Boretech for both and think they do a really good job. Especially the Boretech Carbon.

Good advice... John

 

[yukonal]

Thank you, sir. Exactly the way I've been doing it.

I'm a big Boretech fan, and have switched to their products for shotgun and rifle cleaning, exclusively.
I always leave it sit in the rifle overnight, after a match, and have never had cleaner barrels...so easily.

 

[Prose]

I've called boretech to ask this question and they mirror the above advice. Also, the copper cleaner contains anti-carbon elements and vice versa. They are just different ratios of the same chemicals.

 

[powderbrake]

Ditto on FeMan's process. Get the carbon out first, then attack the copper.

 

[wkdickinson]

Bore Tech "Eliminator" is supposed to do both at the same time and it seems to work that way for me anyway.

 

[Ned Ludd]

As FeMan noted, the problematic form of copper will be on the inside surface of the bore, layered directly on top of the barrel steel. If it is buried underneath a thick layer of carbon, the copper remover will largely be removing the layers of carbon until the copper is exposed so it can attack and remove it as intended. I would also recommend getting the carbon out first, followed by the copper. I use BoreTech's C4 carbon remover, followed by their Cu+2 copper remover, which seem to do a pretty reasonable job. Both are water-based, non-ammonia-containing, and are relatively non-harmful to barrel steel.

 

[338 dude]

So I wouldn't step on the Sweet's thread, I thought I'd start a new one.

If I need to do a real thorough cleaning, and use both copper cleaner, AND carbon cleaner...is there a particular order they should be used in to maximize their efficiency?

I use the carbon cleaner before the copper remover

 

[tac284]

I’ve been a boretech fan for years. I used the same method as FeMan.

In the last year I have used more ThorroClean then BoreTech.