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    Best Cleaning Compounds and Methods????

    What are the best cleaning solvents for carbon and copper fouling?

    What are your techniques for employing them?

    Do you have different cleaning methods for different intervals (i.e. field/range cleaning v. anal-retentive home bench cleaning, @ certain round counts, @ certain timeframes)? If so what are they?

    What are the best lubes?



    I think this is missing from the "Knowledge-Based Threads" FAQ and needs to be resolved (and I'm a retard who still uses CLP and a toothbrush), so hopefully this can be "the" thread.

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    Slip 2000 Carbon Cutter

    and Slip 2000 lube.


    End of Discussion.


    Oh, and in before Pat Rogers!

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    I'm also a big fan of Slip 2000 products. Their lube and cleaners are all non-hazardous, all-synthetic formulations that don't make me want to put on gloves while working with them.

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    I'm partial to the M-Pro 7 products. If you haven't, you should check them out. Their customer service is top notch too.

    http://www.mp7.com/

    -B

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    I used CLP for years, hell, it was free.

    Switched to SLIP 2000 products a couple of years ago, haven't looked back.

    Cleaning intervals-
    Depends.
    Generally only clean work guns before they need work (the armorers don't like to get their fingers dirty, and it helps them see some stuff). I have a bit more leeway than most mil .

    I clean my personal ARs when the mood strikes me. It may be right after a shooting session, after a long break-in, or annually. When I do clean them I tend to get pretty anal, but lube them very well afterward.

    Technique-

    Bore-brush, followed by wet patch, let sit while doing the reat of the cleaning.
    Carbon Cutter + AP brush on everything else.
    When ready to reassemble, chamber brush, followed by bore brush, followed by dry patch. Wet patch, then bore brush, then dry patch until satisfied. I satisfy pretty fast.

    When cleaning for the armorers I use a solvent tank and get really anal. I give it to them dry. When I get it back I fix what they installed wrong and get crazy with the lube.

    I clean my 1911s after any rounds have gone through them.

    I clean my Glocks once a year, whether they need it or not.

    I only cleaned my AK right before I sold it.
    Last edited by Failure2Stop; 12-16-07 at 10:29. Reason: answering original post.
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    SLIP, CLP, Carbon Cutter are all good, but an occasional use of a Copper buster is a good thing. None of the CLPs really attack copper.

    Sweets, KG, BoreTech, there are a number of products that are all effective. Just follow instructions. If shooting through a chrome-lined barrel, maybe every 750-1,000 rounds or so, if SS or CM, more frequently.

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    Might be a small departure from the norm, but I've found that I generally dislike the stronger copper cleaners. Instead I like to go with something cheap and basic like Hoppes and give it lots of time to work. As in running a wet patch through, waiting a couple days, then another wet patch.

    I once left a bore very wet with Hoppes. Basically forgot about it and came back to it 6 months later. I thought I had trashed the bore, when I looked through the barrel it looked like a horrible mess. The Hoppes had floated out lots of carbon and dissolved a lot of the copper. The first patch or two were pretty ugly, and dark blue. I really should have taken pictures, I was amazed that it was possible to have that much junk in what I thought was a fairly clean bore.

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    I use MPro 7 cleaner or Slip2000 725 for general cleaning. For a really good cleaning, or taking cosmoline of AK mags, etc. I have had good results with a solvent tank full of Brownell's D'Solve. Throw the stuff in over night and simply brush off the dirt the next day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redmanfms View Post
    What are the best cleaning solvents for carbon and copper fouling?
    Nothing beats Remington Bore Clean for scrubbing powder and carbon fouling out of bores and chambers. It is an abrasive media (appropriate for barrel steels) suspended in solvent.

    For copper, alternating applications of Rem Bore Clean and Sweet's will remove the most stubborn fouling.

    I lubricate with CLP or lightweight fully syntethic motor oil (brand unimportant).

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    I use to use CLP but switched to Slip 2000 and I haven't looked back.

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