Berchwood Casey lead cloths

Ya think those would be safe on nickel?

gunlaw said:

Ya think those would be safe on nickel?

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Yes, they seem to be. I had an old nickel plated Python that had been shot quite a bit with lead bullets and I used one of the Birchwood Casey Lead Remover cloth's on it. After I was done, it looked like this:

AJC1 said:

Dam that's clean. Mine was baaaad but I'll keep working at it....

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All I can advise is patience. It doesn't all have to get done in one sitting.

Looks good to me. It seems that you hear a lot about what not to use on nickel but not what you should use. I’ll try it on my model 10.

I do the lead cloth thing about once a year on my stainless revolvers. I suspect there is some amount of abrasion going on and think over time edges may begin to become rounded and markings may become faint. I'm not positive but that's all I can think as to why they shouldn't be used on blued guns- removes the finish. They don't seem to do their work chemically so must be abrasion . I never clean the carbon from the top strap, I think it lessens flame cutting and the amount of carbon there seems to be self regulating . I love a clean revolver but they never stay that way long and it feels good to get them all burnt up looking again.

They are no better than Flitz.

gunlaw said:

Looks good to me. It seems that you hear a lot about what not to use on nickel but not what you should use. I’ll try it on my model 10.

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Yes you can use on Nickel.

https://www.birchwoodcasey.com/products/lead-remover-polishing-cloth.html

https://www.birchwoodcasey.com/content/datasheets/31002 Lead Remover and Polishing Cloth.pdf