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Thread: Removing carbon from barrel
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15-06-2022, 15:00 #21
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Re: Removing carbon from barrel
Why not Brasso? Curious.
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15-06-2022, 15:28 #22
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Re: Removing carbon from barrel
Brasso contains an abrasive and ammonia.
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15-06-2022, 21:22 #23
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16-06-2022, 08:25 #24
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Re: Removing carbon from barrel
On top of all the other good advice - DON'T shoot it until you are happy it's clean.
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17-06-2022, 11:23 #25
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Re: Removing carbon from barrel
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Dude, pleeeze just make sure you are fully correct about what you think you know about this barrel.
Are you sure it is carbon in the barrel? I mean really sure!
Cleaning some carbon out may be difficult, but ruining a barrel everywhere else is easy. I have a piece of barrel I eventually cut off a rifle after months of cleaning it, only to find its was bare metal I was scrubbing at when I had the barrel split. ( I can send you whats up photo's" - Hrs, days of cleaning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clean it use it clean it, sometimes the forces at work when firing aid the removal when shot, cleaned, shot.
Please heed what I say about ruining that old barrels metal trying to remove carbon that may not even actually need removing.
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17-06-2022, 13:22 #26
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Re: Removing carbon from barrel
Barrel makers just love borescopes. Nothing better to convince people the barrel need to be replaced for no reason.
As to "hard carbon", I think people see hard carbon when they look at heat affected steel. The only way to get nice shiny steel again is to remove the blackened layer of steel.
As a general rule, if a phosphor-bronze brush does not remove the black, it isn't carbon.
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17-06-2022, 17:20 #27
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Re: Removing carbon from barrel
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There ye go, a man to my line of thinking!
And barrel imperfections, pitting, heat cracks all look like carbon - I will not bet on my own diagnoses?.
Shoot the thing and see, you have possibly cleaned into the next caliber for little gain.
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