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I accidentally found that Windex cleaned carbon soot from my pellet stove window! So I tried it the next time I cleaned my muzzleloader and it worked great. Been using it now for two years with no ill effects on all metal parts!
Shot today and cleaned it the same way as usual with Windex...checked the barrel and it is bright and shiny as new still!
 
I've heard others say something similar about washer fluid. I know of a few guys who use it as a patch lube.
 
Windex ingredients; water, 2-hexoxyethanol, isopropanolamine, sodium do decal benzene sulfate, Laura mine oxide, ammonium hydroxide, blue dye!
Haven't a clue what makes it work, but if you spray it on any carbon soot it melts it away...water doesn't work the same!
 
I read in a BPCR book that Windex with vinegar is the the thing and the blue one with ammonia is bad. They both seem to work just fine to me, as does plain water.
 
I wonder if vinegar would have an adverse effect on the metal.
 
I prefer distilled, dihydrogen monoxide. I put a drop of blue and red food coloring in it so I don't confuse it with tap water. Sometimes for a quart I add a single drop of dishwashing liquid to break the surface tension. :wink:

LD
 
I wonder if vinegar would have an adverse effect on the metal.

No.

i've used Windex With Vinegar, now called Windex Multi-Surface, to clean my black powder cartridge guns and muzzleloaders for at least 25 years. The stuff contains about three percent vinegar, just enough to really cut the fouling.

Some of my Winchesters are in pristine condition: i would not use the stuff if it harmed my rifles.
 
Loyalist Dave said:
I prefer distilled, dihydrogen monoxide. I put a drop of blue and red food coloring in it so I don't confuse it with tap water. Sometimes for a quart I add a single drop of dishwashing liquid to break the surface tension. :wink:

LD

Actually...That is the old window washers formula.
 
hawkeye2 said:
Di-Hydrogen monoxide! Have you read the MSDS for it? It's so dangerous,,
Agreed, That stuff is deadly!
Inhalation of even small qualities can cause some pretty severe reactions.
Everyone that has ever physically ingested Di-Hydrogen monoxide at anytime in their life span has died!
 
Whiskey is known to dilute Di-Hydrogen monoxide to a safe(r) level. Pop used to mix 10-1 and actually drink it. Maybe it was the ice but he didnt die from it (he did die though, which I am pretty sure shocked him)
 
azmntman said:
Whiskey is known to dilute Di-Hydrogen monoxide to a safe(r) level. Pop used to mix 10-1 and actually drink it. Maybe it was the ice but he didnt die from it (he did die though, which I am pretty sure shocked him)


Barry Fitzgerald was in the Quite Man and said “ when I drink Di-hydrogen monoxide I drink di-hydrogen monoxide, when I drink whisky I drink whisky” or words to that effect.
 
Barry Fitzgerald also told Maureen O Hara that she had a fine steady hand when pouring a dram...so did he , before the dihydrogen monoxide :shocked2:
I know.... :eek:ff :metoo:
Shreck
Or, was it the other way around?
Can't remember, too much whiskey in my H2O ?
 
Di-hydrogen monoxide makes up about 98% of oral secretions of infected individuals that can also be used to swab bores or as a patch lube if fired quickly.
Those oral secretions are also dangerous, but only if swallowed in small amounts over long periods of time.
 

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