Carburetor cleaner

Big Tom 52 said:

Thanks Gentlemen! Gonna be honest with ya, I've been using commercial black powder bore cleaner and thinking maybe some of this other homemade stuff is better. Looks like hot water and dawn liquid is what I should of been using and will start using with 3 in 1 oil to finish after drying

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Cold water by itself works fine, hot water better, but watch out for flash rust. which comes back as rusty color on your wet patch. I just use cold water when I run out of my MAP solution. I don't remember whether it's warm water, or boiling water that causes flash rust...might be boiling. I've always used MAP for the last 20-years and just cold water when I run out of that. 3 in 1 oil is a light machine oil which works fine. Not sure what the difference is between that and gun oil but since it takes so little to use for protecting the lock and the barrel, I use Hoppe's gun oil.

Carb cleaner is a quick way to get the storage oil out of a revolver cylinder before loading.

russellshaffer said:

Carb cleaner is a quick way to get the storage oil out of a revolver cylinder before loading.

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Soap & water for me. I’ve used carb cleaner before but that was years ago and the carb cleaner back then was powerful smelling stuff, and it was hard to get that smell out of the gun.

I sprayed it threw nipples twice. I thought it would be good.

Both times the next day it took a few tries to get it going.. after that I reloaded and it was good.

Windex I spray threw the nipples a pipe cleaner or two.. dry and then before installing a quick poke with the pick.. been good.

When I was in the army someone had got the bright idea to use carb cleaner on our M16s because of an early inspection. It worked. So well in fact that it removed all of the finish from the lower receiver and other parts. Oh yes, they were indeed clean!