Anyone ever cleaned their guns with coffee?
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Axman
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JohnL2 said:
With coffee and a .45 you can shoot your own holes in the donuts!
Mannlicher
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no, but I may have to clean the keyboard now from spewing coffee into it when I saw the question.
ken grant
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Coffee cleaning
Years ago, there was a book on African Rifles and what was used in hunting there, I think it was by John Taylor, one of the early Ivory Hunters.
He talked about using hot water to clean the salts out of rifles after firing them. He also said that in areas where water was hard to find, hot Coffee worked fine for the purpose.
Years ago, there was a book on African Rifles and what was used in hunting there, I think it was by John Taylor, one of the early Ivory Hunters.
He talked about using hot water to clean the salts out of rifles after firing them. He also said that in areas where water was hard to find, hot Coffee worked fine for the purpose.
Jim Watson
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He also wrote that if you had no coffee left, that you always have with you something that is mostly water (warm, too) and is a lot better than leaving KCl in your bore.
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corrosive primers
At one time corrosive primers were used and needed to be washed out.Hot water worked fine. I imagine if you had to take care of the tool (rifle), you would use what you could find to do the job.
One did not have the luxury a being able to drive in to a shop and pick up the latest cleaning supplies and do the job.
At one time corrosive primers were used and needed to be washed out.Hot water worked fine. I imagine if you had to take care of the tool (rifle), you would use what you could find to do the job.
One did not have the luxury a being able to drive in to a shop and pick up the latest cleaning supplies and do the job.
scout26
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No PJ, we don't want to know how you "found" this out...........
30 cal slob
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will coffee work on a cat while you're cleaning a gun?
Jim Watson
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Urine from a healthy kidney and bladder is sterile. I don't know about drinking it except for the exotic "autotherapy" yoga offshoot, but it has been recommended as an emergency eyewash in case of contamination by strong industrial chemicals or war gas. Better somebody should pee in your face than your eyeballs should dissolve.
I don't know what old motor oil would do for your lawn. It is still oil which plants do not need, plus copper, lead, and iron wear particles, and blowby combustion products. Ick.
I don't know what old motor oil would do for your lawn. It is still oil which plants do not need, plus copper, lead, and iron wear particles, and blowby combustion products. Ick.
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Friend: AAAHHH! AAHHH!! I'VE GOT WAR GAS IN MY FACE!! QUICK, SAGE, PEE ON ME!!
Sage: Uh.... dude. You really want me to do that?
Friend: AAHHH! MY EYEBALLS ARE DISSOLVING!!
Sage: Oh... alright. *unzips trousers*
Friend: AAAHHH! HURRY UP!
Sage: Dude! Stop SHOUTING! I can't concentrate when you do that!
It was my understanding that Mr. Durden was lying when he said that. It seemed to me that was another way he was spreading anarchy to those who would listen, i.e.; the people who were vain enough to want to "improve" their lawns and feed their egos. They would ultimately destroy that very thing they took the most pride in (their lawns) by pouring motor oil over it.
Personally, I love the smell of coffee, but hate the taste. I'm 35 and my parents still ask me when I'm going to "grow up." (By 'grow up' I don't mean 'move out of the house' but rather 'drink the Adult Drink coffee.')
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Urine is sanitary. Interestingly enough, vitamins and hormones that your body doesn't absorb come through your kidneys pretty much intact. The chinese, I think it was, used to drink it to reclaim some of that.
And the motor oil bit is Durden being subversive. I know a man whose dad sent him out with a pesticide sprayer full of diesel fuel every spring (this was way back when) to spray the weeds. very dead.
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Urine is sanitary. Interestingly enough, vitamins and hormones that your body doesn't absorb come through your kidneys pretty much intact. The chinese, I think it was, used to drink it to reclaim some of that.
And the motor oil bit is Durden being subversive. I know a man whose dad sent him out with a pesticide sprayer full of diesel fuel every spring (this was way back when) to spray the weeds. very dead.
(All I ever needed to know about life, I learned at rotten.com
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If you can clean your guns with a Latte from Starbucks, can you use a bran muffin as a silencer?
Talk about a fate worse than death thread! Yuck.
To add to the conversation, I read that if you are at sea with no water, you can but saltwater up your butt and it will be absorb and filter out the extra salt. It was proposed to put kits for this on life rafts but the Royal Navy said a true Englishman would rather die. However, given other butt fun at sea, I can't see why?
Remember the SWAT article on ARs with the rather personal lubricants suggested to lube the AR?
Talk about a fate worse than death thread! Yuck.
To add to the conversation, I read that if you are at sea with no water, you can but saltwater up your butt and it will be absorb and filter out the extra salt. It was proposed to put kits for this on life rafts but the Royal Navy said a true Englishman would rather die. However, given other butt fun at sea, I can't see why?
Remember the SWAT article on ARs with the rather personal lubricants suggested to lube the AR?
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coca cola and rust
Coca Cola is very good for cleaning rust off of rifles. We used to sneak around and use it in the Marines. First time I'vd ever heard about it removing bloodstains, but I sure wouldn't doubt it...
Coca Cola is very good for cleaning rust off of rifles. We used to sneak around and use it in the Marines. First time I'vd ever heard about it removing bloodstains, but I sure wouldn't doubt it...
TallPine
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I dunno, but coffee seems to go straight through my pipes
PistolNewbie
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You must be a policeman, no doubt!
No, you can't. Too salty and contaminated. Will kill you if you try to drink too much of it, just like salt water.
And anyone who drinks their piss is nuts. Same goes for people pouring oil on their lawn. Please, please, use a reality check.
You probably shouldn't use KY Jelly on your AR. Stick with the regular gun lubes. On the other hand, you can say it at the check out counter to the girl
"Oh, uh, that's not for me...I mean, its for my gun...no, wait, I mean for my rifle..."
There is a list floating around on what supposedly Coca-cola can do. One of the items on the list is "Highway patrolmen carry Coca-cola to wash bloodstains of asphalt". I don't believe it, but it could be true.
Prefer my coffee strong and black - Chicory!
Come to think of it, maybe the cup needs a scrubbing with Hoppes #9!
Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures:
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.
It restoreth my buzz:
It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction,
I will fear no Equal™:
For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me.
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of The Starbucks®:
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over.
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the House of Juan Valdez forever.
Amen
(don't know what this has to do with firearms, but everyone needs a chuckle now and then.)
To steer back to topic...
In regard to coffee as a cleaner: I'm not sure what the percentage of content is, but coffee does have an acid component in it, and maybe, just maybe, that has a bit to do with it's alleged cleaning properties. However I agree with several other posts.. it's the 'boiling hot' that does most of it. and yes, very hot water and soap is the best BP cleaner i have used. Besides, if you heat the barrel properly by using a large quantity of hot water during the rinse, it will flash dry. Less chance for rust!
Oh... and there was a WW1 gas mask called a "smelly duck". You had to urinate on it to make it effective though.
Come to think of it, maybe the cup needs a scrubbing with Hoppes #9!
Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures:
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.
It restoreth my buzz:
It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction,
I will fear no Equal™:
For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me.
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of The Starbucks®:
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over.
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the House of Juan Valdez forever.
Amen
(don't know what this has to do with firearms, but everyone needs a chuckle now and then.)
To steer back to topic...
In regard to coffee as a cleaner: I'm not sure what the percentage of content is, but coffee does have an acid component in it, and maybe, just maybe, that has a bit to do with it's alleged cleaning properties. However I agree with several other posts.. it's the 'boiling hot' that does most of it. and yes, very hot water and soap is the best BP cleaner i have used. Besides, if you heat the barrel properly by using a large quantity of hot water during the rinse, it will flash dry. Less chance for rust!
Oh... and there was a WW1 gas mask called a "smelly duck". You had to urinate on it to make it effective though.
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