sonier
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I have been using brake fluid to eat rust and disolve grime in a few tractor engines before, this fluid seems to eat all the unnatural material away and not screw the metal up, so I had a nice 30/30 leveraction that had horrible blackpowder grime build up and rust from shooting it, say 100 times? and not cleaning it for 6 months, BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER so I was out of blackpowder solvent and decided to give brake fluid a try, so i ran a patch saturated with this. I let it sit for 5 minutes, then scrubbed it 5 times with a bronze brush and ran patches till it was dry, I then did this process one more time, and sure as heck now I have a squeaky clean shiny bore, the easiest i have ever cleaned blackpowder out in my life.
I thought of some precautions like brake fluid will eat paint and dissolve a lot of stuff so i made sure non got on the stock or bluing, I dont know if this is a smart idea using brake fluid, but i dont think brake fluid will disolve metal, so another precaution was clean all the brake fluid out and run a patch of transmission fluid full synthetic to oil the bore. Im just wandering if anyone else has tryed this before me
I thought of some precautions like brake fluid will eat paint and dissolve a lot of stuff so i made sure non got on the stock or bluing, I dont know if this is a smart idea using brake fluid, but i dont think brake fluid will disolve metal, so another precaution was clean all the brake fluid out and run a patch of transmission fluid full synthetic to oil the bore. Im just wandering if anyone else has tryed this before me