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Cleaning up sulfur

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17 September 2003, 17:15
Mark
Cleaning up sulfur
Did a chamber casting with sulfur, which came out great but now I have little shards of sulfur in the nooks and crannies. What is the best/easiest way of getting it clean- hot water, dental picks, WD40, fire, ?? I think I can get most of it with aggressive use of king sized toothpicks but wondered how the smart guys do it.

Thanks,

Mark
18 September 2003, 07:05
DanD
Break Free aerosol gun scrub. Point the tube down the action and spray it all out.
18 September 2003, 16:03
craigster
Mark,
Why did you use sulphur? I know sulphur is used for chamber casts as well as Cerrosafe, but never having made a chamber cast, which one works better? Thanks.
Craig
18 September 2003, 18:18
<G.Malmborg>
Mark,

The smart guy's use cerrosafe... It is less of a mess, clean and easy to work with, and comes out all at once.

Malm
19 September 2003, 09:24
Mark
Malm,

I can see where it is less of a mess! Especially if I were doing this for a business where time is money.

DanD,

The main advantage of Sulfur that I can see is that my local drugstore carries it, now I have several neat looking casts that I can keep on hand to check for throat erosion in the future.

This is done on a 20 Tactical wildcat that I bought a couple months ago and now am working on getting it all put together. Now I can send a chamber cast off to the die maker so he can check it aganist his dies and make sure the gun is chambered to SAAMI specs. Or at least I think, I've been pondering maybe having a try at making the dies myself, might be neat to do that.