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- From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Baking soda to clean steel barrels
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.013136.15333@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 03:32:39 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Western Washington University
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- What I've done is wrap a bit of paper towel neatly and
- tightly around a bore brush, coat it with cleaning slime
- (a runny grit suspension of baking soda in CLP), and it
- takes leading out very quickly. I got some of it onto the
- rest of the guns, and the frames and slides are still gritty
- after a CLP bath and wipe.
-
- This stuff takes lead out so fast I wonder if it might wear
- the blue off if I leave any grit on the the slide rails or
- other metal-to metal parts. There are some other hard
- to reach areas that will have a little in them almost whatever
- I do without a complete dis-assembly (such as the firing pin
- cavity).
-
- I'll clean it out as well as I can, of course.
-
- Can any of you chemists assure me that baking soda is harmless
- to blue steel and has no rust inducing powers?
-
- Thanks
- Jim D
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