Solvent neutralizing??

[NorCalMikie]

Just ordered some copper solvent and the statement was made that the brushes should be "neutralized" after use. What is used as a "neutralizer?? Thanks Mike.

 

[bmx]

I use lacquer thinner or alcohol for Sweet's 7.62

 

[jb1000br]

a spray bottle full of 70% or 91% alcohol from the drug store works too. When im done using the brush, i hang it over a garbage can and spray it with the alcohol...works like a charm, and doesnt dissolve anything.

JB

 

[chuckw2]

I use alcohol also, I was talking with Speedy a while back and he uses hydrogen peroxide.

chuck

 

[WayneShaw]

I buy the cheapest cans of carburator cleaner I can find. Usually at Wally World for less than a buck each. I carry one in my cleaning craddle and give the brush a blast each time I use it. They last a good while, but they all will wear out eventually.

 

[FatBoy]

$.79 at CVS, 91% isopropel alcohol,IPA). Neturalizes, and dries with no residue. Very good stuff. especially for the money.

Chris...

 

[NorCalMikie]

I work on cars for a living so carb and brake cleaner is "free"! Got some in my range bag so thats the way I'll go. Thanks. Mike.:thumb:

 

[jb1000br]

carb cleaner is nasty indoors, and dissolves most of what it hits...one dissolved garbage bag was enough for me

JB

 

[chuckw2]

Guys,

You need to be very careful with those strong solvents. They are extremely dangerous!!!!!

Wear gloves and use outside only.

Chuck

 

[NorCalMikie]

And just in case you guys didn't know, carb and brake cleaner, along with bore cleaner, will make your babies be born naked!
Somebody should have told me that 40 + years ago!

 

[chucko]

just for grins go to your frendly pharmacy and ask them to order in for you 1 gal. of 91% isopropyl alc.. also very good for rinsing cases after cleaning. chucko

 

[WayneShaw]

Well sure you use spray cleaner outside. I clean my guns after shooting, at least all the brushng I intend on doing, then pack up and go inside. I may do some soaking, cleaning inside, but that doesn't involve the brush. For that matter, some of the bore solvents are pretty nasty for indoors use. I guess to be 100% correct/safe, all cleaning should be done outside, but we don't!

 

[Silverfox]

It is pretty difficult for me to convince myself that I should go outside to clean my rifles up here in North DaColder when it is -20º outside or even when it is up to a balmy 35º above.

I have quit using the brake cleaning spray inside though, and use IPA instead. Even that smells kind of funky, but I don't know if it is killing any brain cells or not?!?!?! Perhaps if I don't drink it, I am safe??

 

[bmx]

I have found that the use of Mercury Marine engine tuner in a spray can will cut through most powder fouling super fast and will not harm a barrel.... stainless or chrome moly carbon steel.

I first clean the barrel with the enginer tuner using 3 to 4 patches and then clean with Sweet's 7.62 on 3 to 4 patches and then nutralize with lacquer thinner or alcohol. If the final patches show carbon I use the engine tuner again with patches again.

I have found that spraying the engine tuner in a warm to hot barrel speeds up the carbon cutting process and makes the cleanup a lot faster. Before I leave the range or field I always spray the barrel down and let it sit overnight with a patch in the chamber.

I really hate to use a brass brush in a bore unless the copper won't clean out using the above process.

To store a barrel I use a 50/50 mixture of Shooter's Choice and Kroil oil with a patch in the chamber to catch the drips.

 

[bmx]

I saw a guy at the range a couple of weeks ago with a really copper fouled brand new Remington 700 barrel who swabbed the barrel with Sweet's 7.62 and let it sit for about 15 minutes than swabbed the barrel again with Sweet's. He then slowly run a patch with hydrogen peroxide in the barrel and a ton of foam came out of the muzzle.

He run several patches with alcohol to clean up the foam mess then oiled the bore.

I asked him about the process and he said the Sweet's and the peroxide caused a chemical reaction with the copper that would strip all of the copper fouling out of the barrel.

Any body ever hear of this process?????

Looked kind of scary to me.

 

[jb1000br]

I saw a guy at the range a couple of weeks ago with a really copper fouled brand new Remington 700 barrel who swabbed the barrel with Sweet's 7.62 and let it sit for about 15 minutes than swabbed the barrel again with Sweet's. He then slowly run a patch with hydrogen peroxide in the barrel and a ton of foam came out of the muzzle.

He run several patches with alcohol to clean up the foam mess then oiled the bore.

I asked him about the process and he said the Sweet's and the peroxide caused a chemical reaction with the copper that would strip all of the copper fouling out of the barrel.

Any body ever hear of this process?????

Looked kind of scary to me.

Sounds like Speedy Gonzales' process.

JB

 

[anyrange]

I just rinse my brushes in Mineral Spirits after using any of the bore cleaners.