Gents, Anyone read this months issue of Shooting Times?

It talks about using a degreaser, spraying into the trigger group, spring housing and slide followed by a light spray oil and then wiping clean with a cloth. Now the article shows Tetra Gun Cleaner, but does not suggest that other degreasers would be harmful.

With common sense about me, I question if brake cleaner, gun scrubber or some other form of engine degreaser is safe?

I'm so concerned with the brushed stainless or deep blued finish that I've been using Q-Tips and cotton balls to clean my autos. I don't have a hidden area of any of my guns that I can try it out on, but I'd be overjoyed if this has been tried successfully by others. I spend too much money on my firearms to play around.

In reality I would shoot more and clean less.

Your thoughts are appreciated.

EMC2

I have some Birchwood Casey Gun Scrubber...should have just used it on internals. I sprayed it on the outside of the slide of my parkerized Springfield 1911-A1 and it left spots in the parkerizing.

I've used cheap ($2 a can at Wally World) brake cleaner on my Rugger Mark II SS pistol. I remove the receiver, then hose down the trigger parts, etc. (outside of course) then blow out with compressed air. Then a little spray lube and again blow out the excess and reassemble. So far, so good. However, I can't guarantee that is safe on all finishes or plastics.