Posted: 12/2/2007 12:25:25 PM EDT
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Does this stuff do a good job for gun cleaning, or am I kidding myself? Poll incoming |
You can use it to clean but solvent it is not. I never use it to clean anything. My method is to scrub with a tooth brush dipped in hoppes, spray off with brake-cleaner or powder blast, and then lube with clp. You'll be there are friggin day if you just use CLP... |
This military article says you shouldn't use other cleaners when using CLP:
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Using it on everything since the mid 80's The most amazing thing was how easy it was to clean the bore of the 155mm howitzer that I was a section chief on. Imagine a bore brush that is 6"in diameter It had been recommended in nearly every Army TM manual that I had seen till I got out of the Army reserve in 1990. Used it on M-2 .50 cal, M-60, M-14, M-16, M-9, and all of my firearms, Handguns, Shotguns and Rifles. |
Out of curiosity, do you ever get more than one use out of the toothbrush? I use a toothbrush but every time I go go back next time, the brush has disintegrated. No big deal as I buy a bunch of them for gun cleaning, but wondering if everyone else has this happen, too? |
Well I use the military style issue brushes- the green ones with the bigger bristles on one end and the smaller ones on the other side, and I dont store the brush in the hoppes. Never had a problem with the brushes breaking down. Ive found the spray cleaners really get a lot more of the residue out than CLP. CLP doesnt really flush anything out and just spreads around the carbon residue. You can wipe things off but they are not going to be as clean as using a solvent out of a can like Powder Blast. Hoppes breaks up the residue and all but the baked on stuff like on the end of the bolt, and then the spray cleaner flushes everything out very nicely. I use an old pocket knife to scrape the bolt, and a peice of a cleaning rod for inside the bolt carrier. A short soaking in hoppes helps a lot too. For the bore I use foaming bore cleaner, a bore brush, spray that out, and then actual bore solvent with a brush/patch every other turn- repeat until the patches are clean. Spray out with solvent, let dry, then a bore snake, then a patch with CLP, and then the bore snake again. Use a military chamber brush for the chamber. Everything else gets wiped down with a rag sprayed with clp, put the weapon back together, lube the spots I lubed, and then wiped down. One thing I hardly ever touch is the whole buffer tube unit. Its been a long time since I ever took those peices out. |