AR Sponsor
Posted: 7/25/2012 4:31:30 PM EDT
| I picked up some Ed's Red from Brownell's at a 1/2 price sale. I will let you know what i think of it. I know it doesn't remove copper fouling. Even at 1/2 price it costs more then Hopp's #9. But i read about it for 12 years or so, i desided to try it. |
|
Hell you can make your own near equivalent of Hoppes #9 too. Half kerosene and half denatured alcohol. It's not quite the same because you don't have the 5% banana oil and 5% anhydrous ammonia. The banana oil for smell, and the ammonia for copper (though slow since it isn't much). You could get the banana oil easily enough, but the ammonia would get you some interesting questions from the local narcotics task force, and the supply house would likely say no. You'd need industrial ammonia, not the stuff at the grocery store. The same stuff used by meth makers.
Even without the ammonia, it would still work good for carbon, and a cheap way to soak large parts or large quantities of parts. |
|
Quoted: Hell you can make your own near equivalent of Hoppes #9 too. Half kerosene and half denatured alcohol. It's not quite the same because you don't have the 5% banana oil and 5% anhydrous ammonia. The banana oil for smell, and the ammonia for copper (though slow since it isn't much). You could get the banana oil easily enough, but the ammonia would get you some interesting questions from the local narcotics task force, and the supply house would likely say no. You'd need industrial ammonia, not the stuff at the grocery store. The same stuff used by meth makers. Even without the ammonia, it would still work good for carbon, and a cheap way to soak large parts or large quantities of parts. The denatured alcohol is a great degreaser (i use brake cleaner), i assume that the kerosene cleans the carbon? If you added the ammonia i would assume that this mixture would also help with copper removal? |
AR Sponsor