I bought a 16 oz. jug of Rusty Duck "Black Off" Black Powder Cleaning Solvent at WalMart before they stopped selling guns & muzzle loading supplies here. Only used it a couple of times, but it worked well on the 777 residue that was left behind after using the Hoppe's 9 Plus the other day, which wasn't much but was still noticiable on tight fitting patches.
It has a very strong alcohol type of smell to it, but the only ingredient listed is Ethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether.
It's nice to have several different BP solvents around to provide a "1-2-3 punch" to help remove stubborn residue from whatever powder etc... that I happen to be shooting. It was inexpensive too at about $5 for the jug.
Anybody else try this stuff or want to mention other commercial or homemade solvents?
When I visited the Traditions Warehouse Store recently, I noticed that they had a solvent that had "orange" in it. I guess that's one of the new solvent additives that the manufacturers are using. It was in a spray bottle. Anyone try anything with that ingredient in it yet?
Also, there is an experienced shooter on another forum who absolutely swears by his [nearly] exclusive use of the plain version of the hand cleaning product "GOJO" as a patch lubricant and cleaning agent. It contains mineral oil, lanolin and whatever other ingredients, and was originally developed to remove carbon black from the hands of rubber workers who worked in the Ohio rubber factories. He describes it as working so well as a patch lube at keeping his barrel clean, that I may even eventually try it out as another weapon in my solvent "arsenal"! It's also available at Walmart, Autozone etc... and very inexpensive ($1 on sale), but if you want to try it, only use the plain version without any coarse pumice type ingredients added.
It has some water in it so it will dry out a little if exposed to the air for very long which will make it not be as messy in the field if used as a patch lube, but someone else reportedly adds a little olive oil to it (15%) to keep it from drying out too much, and he said that this helps to improve it. Believe it or not?
http://www.gojo.com/product/product.asp?productid=13
It has a very strong alcohol type of smell to it, but the only ingredient listed is Ethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether.
It's nice to have several different BP solvents around to provide a "1-2-3 punch" to help remove stubborn residue from whatever powder etc... that I happen to be shooting. It was inexpensive too at about $5 for the jug.
Anybody else try this stuff or want to mention other commercial or homemade solvents?
When I visited the Traditions Warehouse Store recently, I noticed that they had a solvent that had "orange" in it. I guess that's one of the new solvent additives that the manufacturers are using. It was in a spray bottle. Anyone try anything with that ingredient in it yet?
Also, there is an experienced shooter on another forum who absolutely swears by his [nearly] exclusive use of the plain version of the hand cleaning product "GOJO" as a patch lubricant and cleaning agent. It contains mineral oil, lanolin and whatever other ingredients, and was originally developed to remove carbon black from the hands of rubber workers who worked in the Ohio rubber factories. He describes it as working so well as a patch lube at keeping his barrel clean, that I may even eventually try it out as another weapon in my solvent "arsenal"! It's also available at Walmart, Autozone etc... and very inexpensive ($1 on sale), but if you want to try it, only use the plain version without any coarse pumice type ingredients added.
It has some water in it so it will dry out a little if exposed to the air for very long which will make it not be as messy in the field if used as a patch lube, but someone else reportedly adds a little olive oil to it (15%) to keep it from drying out too much, and he said that this helps to improve it. Believe it or not?
http://www.gojo.com/product/product.asp?productid=13
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