autism_emu
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I was watching a video on how the British cleaned their lee Enfield rifles and essentially the process goes like this,
Boiling water is put through the bore to loosen fouling and wash out corrosive salts and rope with wire gauze (acting as a bore brush was pulled through) then flannel patches until it was clean. This made me wonder how did people at the time clean copper fouling out of their bores.
Would an abrasive bore brush and some water be enough for cleaning out copper and lead fouling by simply pushing it out?
My question is in general about how they cleaned copper fouling before the time of the new fancy gun solvents?
Thank you for your time
-autism_emu
Boiling water is put through the bore to loosen fouling and wash out corrosive salts and rope with wire gauze (acting as a bore brush was pulled through) then flannel patches until it was clean. This made me wonder how did people at the time clean copper fouling out of their bores.
Would an abrasive bore brush and some water be enough for cleaning out copper and lead fouling by simply pushing it out?
My question is in general about how they cleaned copper fouling before the time of the new fancy gun solvents?
Thank you for your time
-autism_emu