Peroxide Vinegar lead remover ?.

[treeman]

Stumbled a across a piece of writing with photos and public response about cleaning lead out a barrel using 50% peroxide and vinegar for a super quick super clean barrel. Got a lot of thanks and yes it works responses. Now i know peroxide is a awesome and very under utilized chemical ( it was used as the rocket fuel in space rockets I think) - but does it not destroy metal, or is it just non ferrous metals. i always thought peroxide was a vicious stuff. Any of the engineering chemist types please educate me.

[M43]

I don't know about peroxide but I would not let vinegar come near a blued gun. Unless you want to remove the bluing really fast, and dot not have the time to just bead blast it off.

Keep the vinegar away from your gun...

[treeman]

mmmmm nnnn ? yes I did notice he had the barrel out and it was a pistol.

[Epsilon]

Lead acetate is one of the soluble salts of lead. Peroxide speeds up the oxidation of the lead. Be very careful of the blueing, as M43 mentioned. I can blue a scrap piece of steel, and check if vinegar peroxide mix affects it.

[treeman]

be interesting, but I think we know answer. Must be a pistol only thing then.