Jacketed bullets shot the lead out of two of them this morning. They cleaned up like new. The other I’m going to disassemble plug and try the peroxide and vinegar. I tried vinegar alone and it did bring out some brown sludge.
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I wants to use the solution to clean a 20 year old Lee 4 pound lead pot. My first lead pot it had never really been cleaned. After 10 minutes with the solution in it I was amazed. I did a little more than flush it with lots of fresh water and wipe it out. That was three years ago the pot still works fine. That’s when I decided to put a cast bullet in it and leave it in there for quite a while just to see what would happen. That’s when I decided to soak a Cast Boolets in The solution. You still might have to run a bronze cleaning brush through a couple of times. Maybe even repeat this song. Depending on how bad the leading is. Anyway good luck
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Check the toxicity of lead acetate and its ease of absorption through the skin before you consider using peroxide/vinegar. Then you also have to dispose of a toxic material. I was a chemist with lots of industrial experience with toxic chemicals and I wouldn't do it in a home environment, just to avoid a bit of scrubbing with Kroil and Chore-boy. But to each his own risk assessment. Good luck.
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Put a bowl that I lube brass in in the toilet.
Plugged the barrel with a torn piece of paper towel. It held.
Mixed the vinegar and peroxide in an empty dawn bottle. Fine tipped spout.
Filled the barrel up and placed the muzzle in the bowl. Put on a 10 minute timer.
Pushed it all out into the toilet and went directly to the bathtub to rinse it out.
First round took out about half.
Now Im in round 2. Will keep this updated. The rest of the barrel is spotless. Clean like factory new. The muzzle is still a little caked.
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I had an 8mm Mauser that I leaded the hell out of after just a couple shots. With a bore scope, in places you couldn't see the lands.
It took 3 sessions of grinding away the lead with a copper choreboy covered brass brush to get it all out. I could see that I was making progress, but it took some effort...
I also shot some 10mm rounds in a pistol that lead ever so slightly. Typically I can shoot about 50 with no real problem, but I have to choreboy it to get the barrel clean. I've stopped making those in favor for a GC version of the round.
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Blue, are you saying, 1,500 to 4,000 shots fired from a single barrel without cleaning? Maybe it just me but, I would seldom go a tenth of the low end, without a good cleaning. This would be an entire new thread (discussion), but it that normal maintenance with many shooters (lead or jacketed)...that shoot much? 1500-4000 shots, not sure if that is months or years of shooting...years for me.
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I have been treating all of my firearms in the same manner for years. Shoot them until accuracy degrades then give them a thorough cleaning then start that process again. I was not paying attention to the signs of accuracy degradation and blamed it on the load. My reloading skills got better and helped me overcome the degrading accuracy of my cast shooters. I bought new brushes, carbon rods, rod guides and solvents this time around and will start to look from the other direction. Will thoroughly clean, foul then develop loads. Zero and do it again at the end of hunting season. Lesson learned.
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The Dip, hydrogen peroxide/vinegar or mercury are the two best.
I really wish I still had that quart jar of mercury I had when I was a kid.
I never let the dip sit for more than a couple of minutes. It can and will pit a barrel.
BTW, I use 10% vinegar and H2O2 in mine formula.
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It might not be lead. After two cycles of 50:50 vinegar: peroxide the barrel is noticeably cleaner but there are still streaks of black granular looking stuff that won’t come out. I plugged the barrel and filled with Hoppes 9. Warmed the barrel first on a recommendation of a gunsmith friend. Will keep you posted if this works.
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