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31-10-2016, 07:38 #1
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Balistol seperating
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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31-10-2016, 07:42 #2
Re: Balistol seperating
Can you post a pic? Sounds like some of it got contaminated with water.
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31-10-2016, 07:53 #3
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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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31-10-2016, 07:54 #4
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Re: Balistol seperating
Must have become contaminated.
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31-10-2016, 07:59 #5
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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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31-10-2016, 08:17 #6
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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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31-10-2016, 09:11 #7
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Re: Balistol seperating
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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31-10-2016, 09:13 #8
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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31-10-2016, 09:19 #9
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Re: Balistol seperating
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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31-10-2016, 09:22 #10
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.Sent electronically, thus not signed.
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