Water is the the Trick To Corrosives
yep, water does the job. No water, no good. It works and puts the salts in solution and washes them out. Soap is good to,,it helps keep all the bad stuff in solution. Ammonia is for the copper. No ammonia,, not copper cleaning other than the elbow grease. The HOT water is a neat idea. Am gonna try that way next Saturday. I doo the soapy water and brushes... dry it out with a few patches..then a bit of ED's RED and more brushing. Then the Hoppes or COPOUT stuff from the fellas (Barnes is the name I think) who make the lead free bullets. Or, could mix up a bit of soapy ammonia solution and skip a step or two. Then,,finish with oily patches to combat the rust. Here again, my final patches are swabs of ED's Red. Lot of heavy hydrocarbons and my solution features Marvel Myster Oil...which,,in reality...has no oil in it. Anyway, keeps the sheen on and the rust out. Did I mention i blow the pieces off with air between steps... Also, soak the bolts and other exposed parts, (SLIDES and cylinders in pistols) in soapy water while doing the barrel brushing,,, then blow off, then soak over night in Ed's Red. Scurb'em, blow and towel dry..ready for re assembly.
"advanced skills are those employed while performing the basics while your leg is on fire"
That's not foul language!
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Originally Posted by
Gerry N.
I learned to clean a rifle from my insane uncle who was a USMC DI before the gummit used non corrosive priming. I'm not going to go into the whole protocol, but it involves water, Hoppe's #9, oil and foul language, lots of foul language. I'm pretty sure it's necessary. Cleaning my Yugo M48 or #4MkI* after a session with corrosive primed ammo takes no longer than cleaning any other rifle.
Gerry N.
Those are actually Magic Words. :bigsmyl2:
After using H2O based liquids, soapy water, Windex, etc., use WD40.
Mark :coffeecom