Cleaning Stainless Steel?

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Kind of ashamed that I have to be asking this, but...

Last fall I spent my last free day at the range before packing up the house and moving. That being said, I was shooting almost everything I had - particularly my stainless GP-100. With the move, new job and snow/freezing cold, the gun was put away without being cleaned up after digesting a bunch of Fed .38 Lead RNs and Win. .357 loads - kinda messy.

When I pulled it out yesterday I tried cleaning up the gunk with the regular nitro/lead solvents and a liberal amount of elbow grease. This effort was met with limited success, as about half of the mess came off and the other half almost seemed to get rubbed in further.

Seeing as how I don't have access to a 5 gallon pail of Varsol, I wondered if there was some other simple process or product I was ignorant to that might help restore one of my faves to it's former shiny beauty-full-ness...

Any help or advice much appreciated!
 
Your local gun shop should have lead clothes, i have pretty good lead burns on my gp100 and i tried one of those cloths..BAM! Cleaned her right up. I have not tried magic erasers but that would be easier to find i guess.
 
saennor said:
Your local gun shop should have lead clothes, i have pretty good lead burns on my gp100 and i tried one of those cloths..BAM! Cleaned her right up. I have not tried magic erasers but that would be easier to find i guess.
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+ 1, "lead away" clothes just works like if you were removing dirt on your gun, but be aware to not rub a gun with blue, it could remove it, if you do, go light with the clothe. You just have to cut a 1x2" or so to work with.
 
These things work like magic.

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MY RUGER'S SO BRIGHT, I GOTTA WEAR SHADES


Hey Gang!

Just wanted to fill you in on my findings here... Couldn't find any lead cloths after exploring the local gun shops but just happened to be walking through my local Cambodian Tire a couple days after starting this thread looking for some car wax - I happened upon something called "Nevr-Dull". It's a roll of loose-weave cotton fabric lightly saturated with...something...and comes in a small blue container.

It says it's safe for all metals, meets Mil-spec something, something; used by the military for yadda-yadda this and that, use on alloy car rims, fish hooks, appliances, guns...

I think it was about 7 bucks or so, so I figured, what the hey...

This stuff works miracles!

I tried a magic eraser I had in the kitchen and it did seem to work really well getting the worst of the lead burns and stains off, but what it didn't clean up it seemed to grind in even worse - even the magic eraser required quite a bit of elbow grease. This Nevr-Dull took the rest of the grime off with ease and no questions asked. Just tear off a small piece and start rubbing - a dab will do ya so I should have enough to last a lifetime. It looks very similar to the BC Lead Remover posted above and may even the same stuff.

Not sure what a pack of the BC cloth costs, but I'm willing to bet that since this Nevr-Dull stuff isn't marketed as a firearm product, it's probably a bit cheaper.

Now my Ruger looks brighter than new. When I was done my wife and I just sat with our mouths hanging open. "Do not look directly at the firearm..."

Thanks for all the tips here folks! I guess the moral of the story is that if you're going to run 100 rounds of lead ammo through your wheel-gun the day before you pack up and move house, make sure you don't leave it 6 months before you remember to pull it out and clean it up.
 
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