Ed's Red???

[jimboww]

Hello All

I am new to the forum and would like to say hello.

There are a few threads on bore cleaners that I have looked through and have not found much info on Ed's Red. I was wondering if you all use it much.

I mixed up a batch and it seems to work ok but it seems very thin because of the ATF. I was wondering if it would work just as good using another substance for the oil mix? Would something like Mobil 1 synthetic work and result in a more viscous mix?

Jim

 

[FBecigneul]

Jim:
Why mess with home brewed concoctions? There are some very good solvents available today for carbon and for copper.

 

[jimboww]

FB -

Your right... there are good ones to buy. I just like to be a do-it-yourselfer. I have been using MPro7 for powder residue and CR-10 for copper. I mixed-up a batch of Red just to see how it works. I tried it today and it works pretty good but it is thinner than I like so the question.

 

[tightneck]

Ed's Red is definitely not the best copper cleaner. It'll work for carbon OK, but there are far better options out there as Francis eluded to.

 

[flatlander]

The only thing I use Ed's Red for is a quick & mild cleaning of my smallbore rifles. It doesn't have any ingredient,s) to work on copper fouling, and since I'm not a chemist, am not too keen on mixing it with some other solvent that does work on copper. You never know what sort of reaction you might get by experimenting with such a concoction.

 

[jimboww]

For my copper cleanup I use CR-10.

I like the Ed's Red for the powder fowling. It seems to work pretty good. I would just like it to be a little thicker... this is why I was wondering if it would change the properties much going from the ATF to something like a Mobil 1 oil that has a heavier weight? I don't want to mix it with CR-10 because I like to keep my copper cleaning separate from my carbon/powder fowling cleaning.

I just computed a price per ounce and my Ed's Red mix cost me about 15 cents per ounce.