Easy-Off bore cleaner?

Originally Posted By: pyscodogI can't say one way or another but I personally wouldn't leave it in there very long.

I think that's good advice. I have not tried it in a carbon steel barrel but I would think it might be a good idea not to let it soak more than 5 minutes or so.
 
Well, shucky-darn. It didn't work very well on a 2d hard to
clean barrel. Got the heavy duty stuff yesterday and tried it.
Instructions say for cold oven cleaning, to leave it on for 20
minutes. Then, if that doesn't work, leave it on overnight. I
tried both. Shine a bore light, look through the other end and
just about get blinded. It DID make the bore shiny! But then I
used the Lyman bore scope which revealed very little removal of
carbon had actually been done. Another barrel got Flitzed. I'm
wondering what would happen if the barrel is warmed to 200*,
then treated with Easy-Off?

Originally Posted By: ackleymanI think that what got Russ into trouble to begin with was Wipe out foam and no brushes. He can elaborate more on this.

I'm beginning to wonder if it has happened because of Wipe out
and Accelerator, but I do use brushes. Perhaps any residue
should be thoroughly cleaned out with something like acetone?
 
Originally Posted By: RustydustOriginally Posted By: pyscodogI can't say one way or another but I personally wouldn't leave it in there very long.

I think that's good advice. I have not tried it in a carbon steel barrel but I would think it might be a good idea not to let it soak more than 5 minutes or so.

I sprayed some on the outside of a junk carbon steel barrel
last night, then cleaned it off this morning. It didn't appear
to hurt anything, however, residue on the cleaning cloth had a
rust color to it. The bluing looked ok, but apparently some of
it came off by the looks of the cloth.
 
Well, I did make several passes with a new bronze bore brush. I bet this really helped to break up a lot of that carbon. But as I mentioned earlier, I have no .17 caliber bore scope so who knows how really clean I got it? I may not have done as much as I think for all I know.

But I do know that my gun went from shooting like crap to shooting very good groups again. I wish that it had not been windy at all that day so I could really see how it was doing. I plan on taking it back to the range again in the next week or so with some fresh new reloads and see what it does.
 
Originally Posted By: BearRustydust have you ever tried electrolysis on a heavy carbon-ed barrel?

Nope. Dont think I even know what it is. Help me out?
 
Originally Posted By: RustydustOriginally Posted By: BearRustydust have you ever tried electrolysis on a heavy carbon-ed barrel?

Nope. Dont think I even know what it is. Help me out?

I wonder if electrolysis will work on carbon, or if it only works on metal fouling?



Regards,
hm
 
Varmint Al's has list to make the electrolysis setup,and the solution for the barrel. Basically it is electro-plateing in reverse. It takes all fouling off the bore and places it on the steel rod at the molecular level. Barrel is as clean as a never fired barrel.
 
Sounds a lot like the old Outer's Foul Out that I used to own. One of the members here had to PM me to remind me that I had one at one time. It had one solution to work on copper and one to work on lead but nothing specifically for carbon. I used it once (for a week!) to get a friends .22/250 from shooting 4" 100 yard groups to 1/2" groups. I did not think that it would work as well as it did. That had to be the most coppered up barrel I had ever seen. 20 years worth of shooting and never had a cleaning rod down it. That was quite a success story.
 
I don't know if the carbon just gets soft from soaking or the electric brakes it down but it cleaned a pawn shop buy up real good.
 
Thanks, Bear. When you say "softens" assume you then removed w/brush or patch? Assume it was not transferred to your electrode?

Since this is a plating process, I can't help but wonder if any metal is removed from the barrel itself??

Regards,
hm
 
A fellow should try Bore Tech Eliminator. It works pretty good for carbon and copper. They also have cleaners for copper (Cu) carbon (C4). Think I got those right. Works pretty good on my rifles. I have a bottle of the Carbon cleaner but haven't used it yet. One thing I like is it don't stink like sweets,shooters choice, or the ammonia based solvents. Wife don't even know I'm cleaning anymore.
 
Originally Posted By: yotekiller47A fellow should try Bore Tech Eliminator. It works pretty good for carbon and copper. They also have cleaners for copper (Cu) carbon (C4).

I bought 16 oz bottle of that from Midway some months ago. Yes, the C4 is for carbon. I am not going to say that it didn't do any good but it did not get all the carbon. I wish that it did. But then, nothing else did either and like I said, I'm not sure that even the Easy Off got it all but that did more than anything else I tried. Had I started using the C4 a while back I doubt that it ever would have got as bad as it did.

And your're right that it does not smell bad at all. Even smells pleasant which is rare thing out in my garage. Especially if I had Mexican food for lunch!
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So, what happens when the wife sees you with a can of Easy-Off and grabs you in a hug saying "Honey, were you going to surprise me by cleaning the oven?" It would take a mighty sorry hubby to say, "no, this is to clean my rifle". A smart hubby would go clean her oven. Moral of this story is if married keep this stuff hidden.
 
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