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Hard carbon removing, help!

I'm sure you would have. Being on this forum for years we try to encourage shooters to use the archives. I'm not frustrated at all, on the contrary a thread like this is usually good for at least 7 pages. I'm just amazed at how little shooters actually know about cleaning a barrel properly. These threads are actually good for them to learn......but so are the Archives, you should try them sometime.
You never know, maybe there will be a better way someday. Besides, I need to read something 2 or 3 times for it to sinks in.
 
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I just push patches through
Yes, I pass it through too ;)
I use this type of jag, and I have to be very careful to keep the patch on it, otherwise when it exits the muzzle or throat, the patch will come loose from the jag.
I'm not kidding, it's just that you need to have a cleaning rod with markings so as not to ruin the cleaning action.
 
Yes, I pass it through too ;)
I use this type of jag, and I have to be very careful to keep the patch on it, otherwise when it exits the muzzle or throat, the patch will come loose from the jag.
I'm not kidding, it's just that you need to have a cleaning rod with markings so as not to ruin the cleaning action.
I have Parker Hale style jags that allow for back and forth with a patch but only use them with abrasives. I dont use abrasives much anymore. I pass all patches straight through with a Delrin Jag from PMA tool.
 
Whatever happened to GM Top Engine cleaner? I don't think there was ever anything better for removing carbon without abrasives.
My understanding is GM discontinued it due the the ingredients.
Don't know that to be a fact, but I did read that on this forum more than once.
 
Whatever happened to GM Top Engine cleaner? I don't think there was ever anything better for removing carbon without abrasives.
It's still available but it's nowhere near what the OG stuff was. I used it for years until the ammoniated salts were removed from it.

For a couple years after that, it was available from Mercury Marine as Quick Silver Top Engine Cleaner. Eventually, the nannies caught up with the marine trade too and it went the way of the marsupial wolf.
 

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