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    Morning gents

    Wanted to clean my hand gun over the weekend and noticed that my balistol has separted. Its like when milk goes sour and you have semi solids in the bottom and lighter liquid at the top.

    Is this normal or not? Can I still use it or should I replace it?


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    Default Re: Balistol seperating

    Can you post a pic? Sounds like some of it got contaminated with water.
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    Default Re: Balistol seperating

    How old is the oil?

    I had some Young's 303 separate, but it was about 25 years old.

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    Must have become contaminated.

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    Default Re: Balistol seperating

    Balistol is a solution it should not separate, if it has it is no longer the same substance as it was when bought. Most likely reason is putting cleaning utensils into the bottle to wet, and not pouring some for use off into separate container. Second most likely use is pouring left overs back into storage bottle.
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    Default Re: Balistol seperating

    a good mix for corrosive ammo is ballistol and water in a spray bottle

    goes white instantly

    defo sounds like some water got in there

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    Will post a pic this evening.

    I use a syringe to take oil from the bottle and transfer to brush. And same syringe used every time and different one for Hoppes No 9.

    Oil is about 3 years old. I have two bottles which I bought at the same time and both are doing the same. Both bought at the same store.

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    Default Re: Balistol seperating

    Weird. Just yesterday we reorganised the medicine cabinet and I came across a bottle of ballistol that must be in excess of 10 years old, and it still looks okay.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skaaphaas View Post
    Weird. Just yesterday we reorganised the medicine cabinet and I came across a bottle of ballistol that must be in excess of 10 years old, and it still looks okay.
    I bought a new bottle two weeks ago and the packaging differs a lot to what I have now.

    The two old bottles are made of plastic and the 1 looks like the sticker was sticked on manually. The one is a brown plastic battle like the ones you find at a chemist.

    While the new bottle is made from glass and came in a branded box.

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    Default Re: Balistol seperating

    Depends on who imported it. The plastic bottles usually came through Rosenthal's, but at the same time glass bottles were also imported. The Rosenthal's was also quite a bit cheaper.

    I haven't seen those in a long time. Nowadays I only buy the aerosol type as it stays sterile.
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