copper solvents

[Calif Hunter]

As a gunsmith, would you leave Wipeout in overnight? I am thinking in terms of your comment about wasting time. Wipeout needs time to work, and that would probably be the best way for a shop to use it.

[Montana Cowboy]

Howdy All
I use the Outers Foaming Bore cleaner and leave it in overnight. It does a great job of removing the copper. Remington bore cleaner does a good job of removing powder fouling.
The 2.4 oz can of foaming bore cleaner that I bought has been used 51 times so far on long guns and hasn't run dry yet. I see it being offered in larger cans now so one can will last a long time.
Leaving the foaming bore cleaner in over night has not harmed any of my rifles. MC

[Larryjk]

Calif Hunter, I would be very, very hesitant to leave a cleaner in a barrel overnight until I knew what may happen. That means take a take-off barrel out of the barrel bin and try the cleaner on it first in an overnight situation. If it requires leaving the cleaner in the barrel overnight suggests two things; a badly neglected, abused barrel, or a cleaner that is too slow for my use.

[Rev]

I use Sweet's 7.62 pretty regularly in all of my rifles. I clean it some with Hoppe's #9 beforehand, just to get the powder fouling out and expose the copper fouling. It works quickly. I never leave it in there more that 5 minutes or so and it comes out blue, blue, blue, if there's any copper in there.

I always clean it out with Hoppe's #9 again as I would not want to leave any in the bbl. I can't be sure that over night would harm bbl. steel, but I would not want to take the chance. Over night isn't necessary anyway as it works fast. I don't think normal usage hurts the bbl. Benchresters use it all the time and we know how picky they are. If it harmed bbl. steel, they would be yelling loudly about it.

Rev

[Larryjk]

I gave the warning about leaving solvents in the barrel overnight because I had not used the product you are using,Wipeout, and do not know how it operates. If it doesn't hurt the barrel, leave it in as long as it takes.

[Barlow]

I have had good results with Shooters Choice, and JB paste. It takes some time to clean a really fouled barrel, but you can get them clean. Follow directions carefully. Once I get the barrel clean I use Butch's Bore Shine often to keep them clean.

[shooterjon]

I use KD12 copper remover works better than anything else that I have tried.
I also use Bore tech Eliminator for general Bore cleaning and copper removal.This works for me here a link that is pretty interesting on the KG12.

http://www.cleenboreusa.com/kg/kg12testresults.asp

[Montana Cowboy]

Howdy Folks

LarryJK I haven't had any problem at all leaving the cleaner in overnight. I take very good care of my guns and would not do anything that would harm them. When I go to the range I shoot quite a bit so I end up with a fair amount of copper fouling by the time I'm done shooting. Before I leave the range I run a brush through the bore followed by two patches with Hoppe's on them while the bore is still warm. About an hour after I get home I run a dry patch through two times then I use the Outers foaming bore cleaner and let it sit overnight. Dry patch it and go from there if additional cleaning is required.
I know everybody has their own way of cleaning their gun so I'm not trying in any way to convince folks that the way I do it is the way it shoud be done. MC

[LivesToHunt]

Im a big fan of Sweets 7.62. It has worked great for me.

[petey]

Originally Posted by denton

You can make your own equivalent of Sweets for about $.25 per bottle.

Get a bottle of 10% janitorial ammonia. That's about $2 at most Ace Hardware stores.

Get some cheap liquid detergent, preferably without scent or color.

For normal use, mix these two 50/50.

For a stronger solution, mix two parts ammonia with 1 part detergent.

There is no reason to pay $8 per bottle for this stuff.

I do the same thing Denton does. 50/50 mix and she works

[Talon]

For myself the very best is Blue Wonder Bore Cleaner amazingly easy to use just need to make sure you run a oil patch right after stripping the bore.