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Post by LowKey on Dec 14, 2016 16:00:46 GMT
ey're running thier Well certainly can't argue with first hand experience. Sand is the mortal enemy of machines, it seems. Lucky for me not a whole lot of sand in my AO. I just realized we* might need to clarify what we* mean by "wet". My definition is the weapon has been liberally doused with the lubricant, in some cases right to the point of dripping. I do not define "wet" as using a few drops of oil. *Meaning me. |
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Post by LowKey on Mar 8, 2018 0:42:46 GMT
Slight update:
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Harbor Freight Ultrasonic Cleaner (about $70) with a cleaning solution made of 10% Ballistol and %90 hot water.
Field strip the pistol ( or BCG) and drop place carefully into the solution in the tank, run for 8 minutes (the 480 second setting) and 90% of the gunk comes off. A little light brushing with a toothbrush right there in the bath gets rid of almost everything else. For pistol barrels* you can run a bore brush on a rod back and forth (all the way out, don't reverse with the brush still inside the barrel) while the end of the barrel is in the solution......crap just blooms out. I think black powder/muzzle loaders and folks who shoot corrosive ammo do something similar.
Here's the beauty of this-
1.- The Ballistol emulsifies in the water, so after letting the majority of the solution drain off/out of the weapon you just set it aside to air dry. When the water evaporates leaving a thin coating of oil as a rust preventative. No need to bake in an oven or dunk in WD40 to get rid of the water in most solutions to prevent rust.
2.- You don't need to dump out the solution after one use, you can run quite a few weapons through it before needing to mix a fresh batch.
3.- It smells like licorice and has no toxic compounds . Maybe not everyones favorite scent, but better than acetone or Hoppes inside the house.
I'm not claiming this gets them surgically clean, nor am I suggesting this leaves them lubed.
What I am saying is that this seems to get them very clean without much effort** and leaves them with a thin coating of oil to prevent rust.
*Sometime in the next few days I'm going to dump the solution out of my ultrasonic cleaner into a bucket and try this with the barrels on my SBRs.
** What, less than a minute to field strip? A minute to wipe down? Then reassemble. Say 4-5 minutes "work"?
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Post by LowKey on Mar 8, 2018 0:49:00 GMT
BTW, Ballistol's ability to emulsify with water is due to the "Ozo Effect", and g**gling that left me wondering what other emulsifying cleaning oils might work. So far I've read that Pinesol works but will strip off some types of bluing. I'm curious about Murphy's Oil Soap, and I'm starting to keep a list of common ingredients (cribbed from the products SDS) to explore a cheaper homebrewed solution that will leave an oil film to keep the same benefit of Ballistol (not needing to displace water post cleaning). Might not need to do this every range session, but maybe a semi-annual or annual thing. Also good if you run suppressed like I do with my SBRs....my BCG look like chimney sweeps out of Mary Poppins after a day at the range, and the cans themselves....  Also, this might do well for cleaning folding knives to get the crud and lint out of the internals without rusting anything. |
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Well certainly can't argue with first hand experience. Sand is the mortal enemy of machines, it seems.
