cleaning copper from bbl.

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so I've been trying to get all the copper out of my bbl. been scrubbing and soaking with hoppes copper solvent. still have nice shiny copper in the center of the lands. haven't plugged bbl and filled it with solvent yet, just running very wet patches, brushing, letting sit for twenty or so, and running dry patches. done this about fifteen times. also let it soak overnight once as well.

pics coming. any other tips to try and remove all of it?
rifle is savage110 .270 win. around 800-1000 rounds. this is the first copper removal attempt.
 
You need something stronger, Barnes cr10 levels of ammonia content.
For really bad fouling, I alternate from solvent, to brake cleaner(for the carbon), then benchrest bore paste on a tight patch, Repeat until no colour shows on a soaked solvent patch, and the rod pulls evenly over the leade area. It may take a while.
 
Don't brush using a copper or bronze brush, the chemicals will be busy eating the brush. Use nylon brushes and let it sit for 30 minutes...

You have waited waaaaay too long to clean this...

If a barrel is really fouled I clean it with J.B. Bore Cleaner first and then use WipeOut or Sweets 7.62.
 
The new formula Mpro7 works very well, much faster than the old stuff. Wipeout will take care of that overnight. The top layer of carbon is gone, so I'd just run a patch of accelerator then fill it up and walk away. Patch it out the next day. That old Hoppe's benchrest is anemically slow at removing copper.
 
supernova said:
The new formula Mpro7 works very well, much faster than the old stuff. Wipeout will take care of that overnight. The top layer of carbon is gone, so I'd just run a patch of accelerator then fill it up and walk away. Patch it out the next day. That old Hoppe's benchrest is anemically slow at removing copper.
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There is nothing works a s well as Wipeout for me, clean to use no terrible smell like Sweets and others.
manitou
 
Yep, its really not a bad smell and you can use it in the house. No oiling the bore after cos the residue is a corrosion inhibitor, you can leave it in as long as it takes and it gets everything out without brushing. Kind of amazing actually.

manitou210 said:
There is nothing works a s well as Wipeout for me, clean to use no terrible smell like Sweets and others.
manitou
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I bought a can of WipeOut from Henry at Budget to try out due to all the praises I've read. I also bought a can Hoppes foaming copper remover from LeBaron at half the price of the WipeOut.

I did a side by side comparison this weekend. I'm sold on WipeOut. After letting both sit for 60min, the barrel with the WipeOut was copper free, the one with Hoppes had less copper than before the cleaning but the streaks were still there.

WipeOut worked so well, I cleaned out my AR (got rid of a lot of carbon too!) and 700. :)
 
Wipeout is a phenomenal product and I highly recommend it. I bought it 3 months ago and used it in a rifle that I had already cleaned and was amazed by the copper that came out of the barrel.
 
I use Old Country ammonia all purpose cleaner. Home Hardware $3.00, 900 ml. Run a few wet patches through till they come clean, a couple of dry ones than some bore cleaner. Works good but I only do this when the copper gets real bad.
 
I also use Old Country ammonia cleaner. I soak a bore snake in it them pull it into the bbl and let it sit for 15 minutes and repeat if necessary. Dry patch's then oil patch and your done. Best 4bux I ever spent. Bottle has lasted me 6years.
 
It is important to thoroughly clean and dry and then oil a chrome moly bore for storage after using strong ammonia products. After that through cleaning the bore is very susceptible to rusting from moisture in the air.
 
Soak more, scrub less. Stop up the muzzle, fill the barrel with regular solvent(fill, not just run a patch through) and leave it for an hour or so(gives the solvent time to work). Then clean as per normal.
 
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