What do you clean Nickel with?

[50caliber123]

I have a nickel-plated firearm and have been told to NOT USE hoppe's #9 to clean/maintain it. What do you guys use?

 

[Hacker15E]

CLP

 

[Husker1911]

For nickel and stainless, Birchwood Casey makes a treated cloth that does wonders to wipe away stains and powder fouling from the muzzle and cylinder face. Do NOT use it on blued surfaces. Their product number is 31001-LRC. It's known as a lead remover cloth. Brownell's # 167-022-001.

 

[redneck2]

Forget the name right now. Yellow rag made just for stainless. Buy it in the "cleaning stuff" section. Takes crud and stains off immediately with a wipe. DO NOT use it on blued guns. It takes the blue off just as fast. I used to work in a gun shop. Trust me...this is the program.

 

[mete]

Nickel is very similar chemically to copper. Therefore things that remove copper will also attack nickel.

 

[Ala Dan]

I have used both Flitz Cream Polish and Simichrome with great results~!

 

[EddieCoyle]

Use CLP. Stay away from any product that removes copper fouling. Nickel is not similar to copper. but there is a layer of copper plating between the steel and the nickel. Products that dissolve copper fouling also dissolve this layer, causing the nickel plating to peel off.

 

[steveno]

I used simichrome for cleaning up some of my knives so I tried a small dab in a small place on my nickel M-57 and it really cleaned up nice. no small scratching of any kind