Can't make ED'S RED

[Mal Paso]

CA. lawmakers are the most stupid idiots in the world. I can not get alcohol based leather dye because they banned it and you have to get water based leather dye now. Not worth a darn. But, I can go into my local hardware store and buy a gallon of alcohol and still buy odorless mineral spirits. That is like banning the bullets. but not the guns.

I like how you can only buy some oil based paints in quarts because there are too many VOCs in a gallon. They couldn't comprehend there is just as many VOCs in 4 quarts and more would get into the air messing with 4 cans.

Math isn't as important as it used to be since the development of cost overruns.

[Rick459]

when i make my Ed's Red i substitute Kroil for the Lanolin and find that it removes the lead in my pistols when i shoot my cast boolits. i have also used Laquer thinner instead of the minerial sprits and it works just as well.
Rick

[woodbutcher]

Hi JonB.I remember when $20.00 would buy 80 gallons of the stuff. That`s right folks.25 cents a gallon.My Father was a house painter for almost 60 years before he retired.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[Char-Gar]

Buy what you need via Amazon and it will arrive at your door in Cali.

[RogerDat]

Buy what you need via Amazon and it will arrive at your door in Cali.

Why I do believe you are suggesting going around stupid rather than butting it with your head. You're right. As long as Amazon doesn't have a flag to say banned or prohibited you can just bypass the idiots. Eye on the prize. Eye on the prize.

[bbogue1]

Way back when the formula was developed that we have modified to utilize current available products, the original formula called for turpentine (a Stoddard solvent). It is adapted from a formula in Hatcher's Notebook, Frankford Arsenal Cleaner No.18 developed in the late 1800's. The original Hatcher recipe called for equal parts of acetone, turpentine, Pratts Astral Oil and sperm oil, and optionally 200 grams of lanolin added per liter. Any Stoddard solvent is in the family of mineral spirits. Mineral spirits (U.S.) or white spirits (U.K.), also known as mineral turpentine, turpentine substitute, petroleum spirits, solvent naphtha (petroleum), varsol, or, generically, "paint thinner", is a petroleum-derived common organic solvent. None are water soluable due to their petrolium origination. You'll find this interesting reading: https://www.majorsgunclub.org/edsred.html This article gets down to the carbon make up and presents tables of what a Stoddard Solvent is https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ToxProfiles/tp79-c3.pdf

[Walks]

A haven't found any one who will ship to me. No one on amazon that's for sure.

[Steppenwolf]

This stuff works the best for me. I use apple cider vinegar.

[DukeInFlorida]

Ed's Red, Ken's Red Oil (Kroil), etc... pretty much similar stuff..........

One of Firearm's New's (formerly Shotgun News) current authors is Gus Norcross. He does all of their current gunsmithing articles. I met Gus when I lived in Maine. He does all of my fussy work. I once traded Gus a web site for some work on my M1A. A link he had me put on his web site is the recipe he uses:
Gus' Red Lube

I have been making it ever since, and it's wonderful stuff.
BTW, here's a quick link to some of the articles Gus has written for Firearms News:
Link for Gus' Articles

[fiberoptik]

This stuff works the best for me. I use apple cider vinegar.

???? Vinegar????


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