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Posted: 2/26/2008 12:25:41 PM EDT
| I've come across various threads on different boards of people using oven cleaner to clean their guns... wouldn't this mess up the aluminum in an AR? have any of you been brave enough to try this? |
+1 I believe some oven cleaners can attack aluminum. Plus, you have so many better options for cleaners out there available to you.............. why take the chance. |
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Do your self a favor, ok. Go buy a oven cleaner and some aluminum foil. Set a foot long sheet or foil on the ground and spray it with oven cleaner. It will turn black and start smoking, because it's eating away at the metal, burning it. (Do not crinkle foil and spray a lot of this solution in a coke bottle, the explosion will hurt you and spray it everywhere. I know people will get the idea from me saying it smokes and burns the metal.) |
The times I have used it on a C&R, I have rinsed the entire rifle with water from the garden hose. It works well, but there are also other methods. Like Quib said, there are so many products made for cleaning firearms that it does not make sense to use anything else. |
Naaaaa....it's only an aluminum scraper! And I’m not too concerned with it scratching the finish on the inside of my bolt carrier anyway.  ETA: Or could I use a chrome touch-up pen on the inside of my carrier if it gets scratched? 
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