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- From: bbx!bbxrbk!russ@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Russ Kepler)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Cheap case cleaner?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.141509.487@bbxrbk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:06:16 GMT
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- Organization: russ at home in Albuquerque New Mexico
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- In article <BzMps7.GJA@SSD.intel.com> hays@SSD.intel.com (Kirk Hays) writes:
- #"Carburator cleaner" will dissolve/destroy/remove any carbon-based compound, in
- #my experience, i.e., I've never found anything organic it won't remove. It won't
- #harm brass, but I seem to recall some brands will eat aluminum.
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- I'd be surprised that any carburetor cleaner would attack aluminum -
- seeing as how most carbs in the last 20 years have been made of the
- stuff. It will, however, regularly attack gaskets and the like.
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- #Nasty, *nasty* stuff - keep it off the linoleum, and out of the watershed.
- #
- #I seem to recall John DeArmond uses it to clean guns...
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- It does work well at cleaning the gas system of an auto-loader. If
- proper care is used in keeping it off the finish I don't see a problem
- in using it as a bore cleaner for bores really fouled with carbon. I
- wouldn't expect it to do too much on copper or lead fouling though.
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- Russ Kepler, posting from home bbxrbk!russ@bbx.basis.com
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