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what is the best way to clean bore brushes? | ||
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I just hose 'em with brake cleaner. Or, soak them in laquer thinner or boil them in soapy water. | |||
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I use white gas or cab. cleaner | |||
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If they were in contact with oil, I use warm soap water. If it is just to neutralize a bore solvent, I only rinse them under the tap. I use the ones by Dewey, which come in packs of 12, so it's not raelly an investment and I can afford to replace them rather frequently. | |||
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I used Brake cleaner and Carb cleaner for years. I now use straight rubbing alcohol. NRA Patron Life Member Benefactor Level | |||
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They are relatively cheap compared to guns and ammo. If they are dirty enough to need cleaning, just throw them out! McFox was almost there!  I'd bet the materials used for cleaning cost more than the new brushes? | |||
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I keep a largish peanut butter jar of mineral spirits in my loading room for bore brush cleaaing. The large open top makes it easy to swish a brush around in the solvent easily. Grit/carbon bits from the brush settle to the bottom fairly quickly, leaving the "user" part, the upper level, quite clean if I don't shake it up before using! The jars are free for the washing, the "oderless paint thinner" is cheap by the quart from Walmart. Mineral spirits evaporates faily rapidly, leaves no residue, largely harmless to skin, low flammability. | |||
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Jim C, Thanks for the tip on odorless paint thinner. I can't stand the smell of the others. velocity is like a new car, always losing value. BC is like diamonds, holding value forever. | |||
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Brake cleaner. | |||
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The issue is that they wear and become undersized. | |||
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That's why Dewey sells 'em in packs of 12 at a reasonable price. | |||
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Could this stuff be used as a bore cleaner? What might it do to the oil finish on a stock? | |||
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That's how I buy them.I prefer pro-shot. | |||
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You're ahead of me, Craig. I've never gotten to the laquer thinner or boiling water. My routine for cleaning my rifles just includes a 2 or 3 second spray of brake cleaner on the brush after the rifle is cleaned. I then take the brush off the rod and roll the brush on an old, throw-away T-shirt rag. That pretty much does the trick. Most auto parts houses like Shucks, Pep Boys, etc., are always having sales on spray can brake cleaner, so it is often available for less than $2 per can. The time saving is worth that to me. And at that price, it is way cheaper than throwing the brush away the first time it gets dirty. One can will easily do 20-30 brushes...probably more, I never bothered to keep track. Best wishes...maybe we can work it out to go slay a pickup load of sage rats next Spring. AC My country gal's just a moonshiner's daughter, but I love her still. | |||
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I use Gun Scrubber. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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+1 I like the Brake and Electric motor cleaner better than Carb...cleans better and dries faster...Could never drag a dirty brush through a patched bore.... Once they get small from wear, they get tossed into the next size down bin...might be a little tight but they will go through!!! ______________________ Smedley  ______________________ From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.' B.H.Obullshitter ------------------------------------ "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" Winston Churchill ------------------------------------ "..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." Samuel Adams ------------------------------------ Facts are immaterial to liberals. Twisted perceptions however are invaluable. ------------------------------------ We Americans were tired of being thought of as dumb, by the rest of the world. So we went to the polls in November 2008 and removed all doubt.....let's not do it again in 2012 please. | |||
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I use a jar of Eds Red. ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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Very short blast of Brake Cleaner is all it takes--been doing it for years. | |||
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Tell me a good reason for cleaning them. Butch | |||
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The jar idea is a good one. A good reason for cleaning them? I clean about 100 times a year and wont buy that many brushes. I use them until they are wore out then they become the next size down. ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | |||
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Ted being a BR shooter we normally clean after each target. That means 25 or 30 times a weekend. That includes practice. The nasty is in the brush and not on the tips. What does that do with anything? Butch | |||
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I suppose I'm just to cheap to throw them away.....and I'm O.K. with that. I tend to use most everything past it's lifespan before throwing anything away. Thats just me. ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | |||
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You can tell by feel as to when they are gone. A brush will last a weekend of competition. I buy them a couple dozen at a time. Butch | |||
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I keep a spray bottle of mineral spirits handy and blast out the crud/solvent after brushing. I have guns from 6.5-8mm, so as the brushes wear I move them to a smaller bore. | |||
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Butch--short blast of brake cleaner will make them last a lot longer but the cost of brake cleaner vs new brush is a toss up. | |||
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When I started BR shooting many years ago a veteran shooter asked me what in the hell I was doing as I cleaned my brush with Brake clean. He said if I had a brush for a hunting rifle and used it a couple times a year, clean it with BK as the solvent will eat the brush over a period of time. In a BR match of at most a weekend a new brush is gone anyway.A National event of a week will take at least a couple. Butch | |||
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Brake cleaners and Carb cleaners have nasty stuff in them--KNOWN carcinigens (sp?) I change brushes regularly, but I do blast em clean with the citrus based guns scrubber, I think it does great, it's in an aerosol can, and it's safe for humans! | |||
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I can guarantee you if it dissolves oil, rust, crud etc. it is not safe. Might be safer yet not inert. Because chemicals or metals are not red flagged by Proposition 65 does not mean they do not have an MSDS. If you check MSDS info. you will find extremely toxic compounds in most every cleaner. There is also much corruption and taking chemicals to labs. and having advanced testing done will reveal toxic chemicals. About the only true, non-toxic cleaners are plain acetic acid(vinegar) and old fashioned Borax. Odourless cleaners are better than vapour cleaners. Just make sure to having lots of nitrile gloves around. Cleaning guns, mechanic work, etc. should always be done with nitrile gloves. Buy them XL and they can be worn for hours if needed. | |||
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