Anyone here ever had the thing just not go to "green light" status indicating that cleaning is done?

I've used it on 3 rifles. One went to the green light after 2-3 hours.

The other rifles turn both lights on after several hours, and the yellow light never goes out even if I clean out the solution and start over with fresh. On one of these, I started over twice and never could get the yellow to go off even though on the third run, there was no trace of fouling on the rod.

Most recently, the light that previously went to clear green never did turn on the green. As an experiment I let it go a full 24 hours. Since it was time to go to the range I stopped it--lots of fouling on the rod and the bore seemed quite clean.

I've never had any discolored solution or other signs of trouble.

Any feedback or similar experiences?

John

I don't have one, but remember that Rick Jamison from "Shooting Times" did an extensive write up on these. I seem to recall that he had this same thing happening -- what he said is that it was alternating layers of power fouling over jacket, over powder, over jacketing, and so on.

He would pull out the Foul Out 3 and clean with solvent, then put back in the FO3 unit. He had to do this a few times to a rifle he thought "had a shot uout bore", but it brought it back and is once again a sub-MOA shooter.

... you can always contact Outers for their Tech info line ... I do not have the phone# handy ... Tight groups!!

Jamison's experience pretty well matches what the Outers folks say -- either the light goes off after a few minutes, or you need to dump the solution, scrub out the bore and start again.

Problem is, on one of these rifles I did that a couple of times (i.e., started fresh with totally new solution a total of 3 times) and got zero fouling out the third time. But, both lights still stayed on.

John

Am I missing something here? This sounds like a lot of scrubbing for a system was supposed to be "effortless".

What's wrong with a little Sweets and a few patches? Takes me no longer than 15 minutes to completely remove all copper from my barrel. Hummmm....

Bought a FN 338 awhile back that I spent over a week soaking the bore with every bore cleaner I had on the shelf, brushing, patches,etc. Bought the F.O.III and soon had it clean. The rod had to be sanded several times and solution changed. Now that bore cleans in an hour or two. I've come to really like the FO III system. Pre-clean the bore using normal methods mainly to get rid of powder fouling(solvent,minimal brushing,patches). Degreasing is then crucial! Then let the FO III do it's thing and it works great. -Matt