What do all you smiths use for removing heavy copper fouling from barrels? I have a few oldies in need of restoration, and a few newer ones in need of some TLC. I can't seem to find anything other than Hoppes locally and that stuff won't clean anything.
Excellent copper solvent?
- Thread starter Cleftwynd
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Wipe Out and CR10 work extremely well for copper fouling removal.
Wipe Out is easy on the bore and can be left in overnight if needed. CR10 is aggressive and needs to be neutralized after use and no more than a couple of hours of exposure in the barrel.
RC
Wipe Out is easy on the bore and can be left in overnight if needed. CR10 is aggressive and needs to be neutralized after use and no more than a couple of hours of exposure in the barrel.
RC
Not a gunsmith by any means but i can say that i bought a foaming cleaner made by thompson centre that with 2 applications brought a old 303 enfield from looking like a smooth bore to a sharply rifled barrel again.
To bad the rifle was shot out, made a better jack handle than a rifle, couldn't hit a pie plate at 50 yards consecutivly
To bad the rifle was shot out, made a better jack handle than a rifle, couldn't hit a pie plate at 50 yards consecutivly
I don't know anything about the KG-12, but i just went out to the garage and grabbed the stuff from thompson center, it is available in canada as i bought it at the local gunshop.
It is called T-17 foaming bore cleaner, removes black powder, copper fouling, brass fouling and plastic residue from sabot slugs.
The stuff really does work well.
It is called T-17 foaming bore cleaner, removes black powder, copper fouling, brass fouling and plastic residue from sabot slugs.
The stuff really does work well.
I'm not a gunsmith either but I've been really happy with KG12. Wipe-Out works well also, but I think the KG12 is a little more aggressive. The nice part is that neither of them will stink up your shop/house. If you do opt for Wipe-Out make sure to get the Accelerator as well.
lejarretnoir
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Sweets 7.62 still doing the job for me.
beretta boy
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- Orillia, Ontario
I've used both Sweets 7.62 and Barnes CR-10.
Both are good products & both do the job.
Both are good products & both do the job.
Several good products have been listed in the other replies, and most will do the job of cleaning carbon and copper.
The petroleum/ammonia based cleaners like Hoppe's, Shooters Choice, Butche's, G96, work well, for a quicker cleaning CR-10 and Sweet's 7.62 will fill that need.
For the new generation of cleaners which are water based, Wipe Out (foam or liquid) Aqua Clean, Bore Tech Eliminator or 1st Choice Bore Cleaner, they will perform carbon and copper removal equally as well. They have much less of an odor to them, which makes cleaning indoors less of an issue for the rest of the family.
When leaving solvents in the bore, remember they are a liquid even the foaming products return to a liquid fairly quickly, this means that the product has a tendency to migrate to the lowest point. This will effect the degree of bore solvent concentration throughout the bore, and could have the effect of more or less cleaning in parts of the barrel (top vs. bottom).
I have seen several incidences of allowing the foaming cleaners to expand into the receiver, getting into the trigger and the bolt stops on Remingtons. This did not have good results for there function.
The petroleum/ammonia based cleaners like Hoppe's, Shooters Choice, Butche's, G96, work well, for a quicker cleaning CR-10 and Sweet's 7.62 will fill that need.
For the new generation of cleaners which are water based, Wipe Out (foam or liquid) Aqua Clean, Bore Tech Eliminator or 1st Choice Bore Cleaner, they will perform carbon and copper removal equally as well. They have much less of an odor to them, which makes cleaning indoors less of an issue for the rest of the family.
When leaving solvents in the bore, remember they are a liquid even the foaming products return to a liquid fairly quickly, this means that the product has a tendency to migrate to the lowest point. This will effect the degree of bore solvent concentration throughout the bore, and could have the effect of more or less cleaning in parts of the barrel (top vs. bottom).
I have seen several incidences of allowing the foaming cleaners to expand into the receiver, getting into the trigger and the bolt stops on Remingtons. This did not have good results for there function.
Same for me....Wipe out.. Just cleaned out a 1918 Enfield bore which had'nt been touched in over 40 years... Works great..
NB.nagantsniper
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i just posted elsewere but are there any dealers in the maritimes ( im in new brunswick) selling wipe out foam cleaner?? i just used my last can and need more.
i got it last year at the moncton/ irishtown gunshow but didnt get THAT dealers name / number.
in my opinion its great ............mt 2nd choice is sweets 7.62 but with out is my prefered choice now.
any help??
from don
i got it last year at the moncton/ irishtown gunshow but didnt get THAT dealers name / number.
in my opinion its great ............mt 2nd choice is sweets 7.62 but with out is my prefered choice now.
any help??
from don
