What are your thoughts on steel wool?

cdoc42 said:
"Make sure the Chore Boy is PURE copper, and not copper plated steel, because they make both kinds."

How can you tell from reading the package, aside from taking a magnet as suggested above?
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It's printed on the box. It points this out very clearly in the article I posted a link to. Read it.
 
In another 40-50,000 years the oceans and rivers on earth will have dissolved all of the solid matter and our planet will be a big ball of water flying through space.

They're fact-checking this as I type.

Honest, they really are.

There will be no guns, anywhere.

Not even squirt guns.
 
Not a problem and I thank you

Pahoo, the author of the book I referenced spoke to stopping the process just at the muzzle (if I understood it right), then reversing direction.
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Not a problem and I thank you .... :)

Be Safe !!!
 
I searched locally for "Chore Boy" to no avail. Found one product that honestly labeled "Coated" copper. Another -at CVS - figure that out - was not "Chore Boy", even though a website search said they had it, but a substitute that did not respond to a magnet. I bought that. I cut an "envelope" of the mesh and covered a nylon bristle brush with it and an appropriate solvent and cleaned the barrel and cylinder of my Thomas/Uberti 1873 .45 Colt with it with a satisfactory result.

In retrospect I wondered why we just don't use the contents of an old piece of 18-Ga lamp cord wire?

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cdoc42 said:
I searched locally for "Chore Boy" to no avail. Found one product that honestly labeled "Coated" copper. Another -at CVS - figure that out - was not "Chore Boy", even though a website search said they had it, but a substitute that did not respond to a magnet. I bought that. I cut an "envelope" of the mesh and covered a nylon bristle brush with it and an appropriate solvent and cleaned the barrel and cylinder of my Thomas/Uberti 1873 .45 Colt with it with a satisfactory result.

In retrospect I wondered why we just don't use the contents of an old piece of 18-Ga lamp cord wire?

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the wire doesn't have the sharp edges of the Chore Boy.

Check hardware store or in the household cleaner section of a grocery store, should be in the same place as scotch bright pads.
 
In retrospect I wondered why we just don't use the contents of an old piece of 18-Ga lamp cord wire?
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ChoreBoys are made from flat Copper strands that in a sense, have sharp edges that present to the fouling/leading whereas Copper electrical wire is round with no sharp edges to "dig" into the fouling/lead.
 
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