How

[Steve Janes]

Anyone

 

[pizdets17]

hoppes like works great for me

Anyone know a good way to remove the lacquer on steel cased surplus?

 

[J0HN_R1]

Found this on Google...

Bypass the chemicals with a homemade solution of baking soda and water for cleaning the lacquer from small brass objects.
Bring water to a boil in a pot large enough to submerge your brass item(s). Add baking soda at the rate of 2 tbsp. per quart of water.
Place your brass object in the boiling water and allow it to simmer for 15 minutes..

* also, have you tried laquer thinner...???

 

[tootall]

Why?

 

[Craig0ry]

hopps removes the laquer? I find that hard to beleive, Its takes me more than an hour with steel wool to remove it.

 

[Millar]

You don't have to take the lacquer off. Just shoot them and throw the cases away.

 

[mmattockx]

Why?

Good question, I am curious to know as well. OP, the Czech military was planning on using those millions of rounds of surplus ammo without removing the laquer, why do you want to?

Mark

 

[diananike]

Yep
The laquers there fore a reason.
Let it do it's job. Making steel cases have more reliable feeding and corrosion resistance.
It doesn't bother my VZ or SKS any why would you mess with that?
Just use a good plastic solvent to clean the bore and chamber after shooting corrosive laquered. I use Ed's red with a good dose of acetone.
It'll melt the plastic like nobody's business.

 

[playkation]

IIRC, laquer thinner should take laquer paint right off. If memory serves, laquer does not dry in the same way that enamel does. It remains able to be redissolved by it's original chemical base.

 

[ndb86]

i'm not 100% sure but i'm think you could tumble the laquer off. But like it's been said there is really no need too.

 

[CanAm]

The lacquer on cases is often phenolic based and very tough to remove.

 

[jimbo14]

IIRC, laquer thinner should take laquer paint right off. If memory serves, laquer does not dry in the same way that enamel does. It remains able to be redissolved by it's original chemical base.

Yes, lacquer thinner will dissolve lacquer. Better wear a respirator with organic vapour cartridges and use rubber gloves. Those disposable nitrile gloves won't last at all.

 

[donor]

Don't remove it-it's there for a very good reason.Think about it for a moment.

 

[collector67]

You trying to pimp your bullets?

 

[Dsiwy]

I'll add this to the sillyest things I have read on CGN

 

[yardie]

i'm not 100% sure but i'm think you could tumble the laquer off.

If we're talking about live rounds...

 

[Tyler]

I'll add this to the sillyest things I have read on CGN

Same here.

Talk about time wasters. Tumbling live rounds? Exposing them to chemicals? All to remove something that militaries around the Eastern bloc used... in their Eastern bloc weapons... which we are also using?

 

[J0HN_R1]

Who said anything about LIVE ROUNDS...???

 

[Satain]

I wonder what this is used for???

I also wonder if you use this in side your chamber with the above said product what it would do???

 

[shawn]

If we're talking about live rounds...

How do your think ammo manufactures get ammo so shinny?

They aren't paying some one to do it by hand

And another vote for shoot it, and don't worry about it.

Shawn