Question if you use Tipton's Truly Remarkable Bore Solvent

[wahoowad]

I recently switched to Tipton's Truly Remarkable Bore Solvent and used it to clean a stainless steel barrel. I noticed every time I use Tiptons and a bronze brush that I would get lots of the blue stains on a follow-on patch. But if I just ran a patch soaked with Tipton's that I did not get any blue stains on a follow-on patch. This has me wondering if the bronze bore brush is creating the stains and not actually any copper fouling.

 

[bfr4570]

The bronze brush will leave a slight trace.

You are going to get a lot of different aspects on this.

I usually run a bronze brush and a few patches and then a nylon brush thru it.

 

[wahoowad]

I get a lot more than a trace, the first patch after a few passes with the brush comes out very dark. I am dipping the brush in the jar of Tiptons first.

 

[bfr4570]

It will come out that way. I usually run 8-10 patches after it. Then run the nylon thru to get the loose stuff out.

 

[pyscodog]

Pretty good stuff though.

 

[Silverfox]

Don't dip your brush into your jar of Tiptons. You are probably getting contaminents into the Tiptons. Get an eyedropper and use to put the Tiptons on your brush.

If the Tipton's is good enough to remove copper it is going to react with your bronze brush and give you false readings of copper. You might try some of the Bore Tech Proof Positive brushes once you have worked your bore with a bronze brush and then patched it out. The Proof Positive brushes are nylon and WILL NOT give you false copper readings. Same thing with their Proof Positive jags. They are the only brushes and jags I use now days.

 

[Terry N.]

Agreed; lose the bronze brush. You'll find that your barrel comes 'clean' much faster that way!

 

[Winny Fan]

Any of the ammonia solvents will cause a brash brush or a brass jag to show color. However, many shooters who decided to "lose the bronze brush" found that they had accuracy problems a year or so later with high pressure cartridges. Most of them found that plastic brushes were not aggressive enough to keep the throat area of the bore clean, and as a result they had developed carbon rings or extremely hard carbon deposits in the bore area that totally wrecked accuracy. Once there, and once packed almost to the consistency of ceramic from repeated carbon fouling, it was extremely hard to remove and to restore accuracy in a barrel.

You can use the ammonia solvents, but simply don't use a brass jag or a brass brush immediately before checking to see if your barrel is clean or not because it shows or does not show any blue tint on a patch. You can get a false clean and not have the barrel completely clean by using the wrong tools for the job.