Long term storage of Hoppe's #9....

[RDCL]

....in the plastic bottle, that is. If allowed to sit for too long, will the stuff begin to attack the plastic?
I'm wondering if it would be wise to transfer the stuff into small GLASS capped bottles. I would think they would'nt package it into plastic bottles if that were the case.....but maybe they don't take into account guys like me that want keep lots of it on hand.

My logic is this: If you love a product such as #9....buy more than you will use in the next few years just in case it gets dis-continued.

Russ

 

[Nushif]

I go through my Hoppes so fast that I don't generally store if for too long ... but the bottle I have that's been sitting for several months seems unaffected.

 

[rcmodel]

It comes in a brown glass bottle for a reason I think.

Some of the chemicals are light-sensitive maybe?

I'd just leave it in the factory containers.

rc

 

[W.E.G.]

I've had a small supply of Hoppes in a plastic squirt bottle for about 10 years.

I keep the plastic bottle in an ammo can.
Whenever I open the ammo can, the whole basement reeks of Hoppes.

I have a half gallon or so of the stuff in glass bottles since at least 15 years.
No leak, no stink.

I bought a lifetime supply of the stuff just after they announced they were going to take the stuff that causes cancer out of it.

 

[RDCL]

It comes in a brown glass bottle for a reason I think

That's just it.....I wish I COULD find it in glass bottles. In my area I only find it in brown plastic bottles at my local shop and Wal-Mart.

 

[skua44]

W.E.G. "reeks"? "Stink"? I like the smell. In fact, when doing contract work in Antarctica I'd take film cannisters with cotton soaked in various scents my wife used in candle making; cinnamon, orange, etc., for room aroma. Also a cannister with Hoppe's soaked cotton. I had several guys (and gals) hang out in the room because it reminded them of the gun room back home, when the Hoppe's was out.

 

[skeeziks]

"I bought a lifetime supply of the stuff just after they announced they were going to take the stuff that causes cancer out of it."

Would it be the kerosene that causes cancer? Because it's the kerosene that makes Hoppe's such a good solvent. The kerosene is what gets all the fouling out -- except for the copper fouling, of course.

 

[JohnBT]

They had to remove the nitrobenzene. That must have been 20 years ago, but I've lost track of precisely when they did it.

John

 

[HOWARD J]

I Have a glass bottle of Hoppes --I would say the bottle is over 50 years old.
I has been refilled a number of times.
It is a great product...............................

I also have a number of plastic bottles--not very old--
same good smell.....................