Apparently there are real dangers by using brake cleaner to clean your firearms.
I use it all the time as it does get the metal REAL clean.
The problem is that when brake cleaner gets hot one of the by-products is PHOSGENE gas. This was one of the chemical weapons used in WWI trench warfare. In small doses the chemical can be deadly or worse can cause you to have horrible scarring in your nose and lungs while causing your pancreas to shut down.
Good news is that phosgene gas needs chlorine in its makeup and NON-CHLORINATED brake cleaner is missing the chlorine needed.
My advice is to buy only non-chlorinated brake cleaner. Fortunately a lot of gun people like me use the blue can of non-chlorinated brake cleaner gotten from Walmart. There is a red can of CRC that Walmart sells that I believe contains chlorine (CRC green can brake cleaner is non-chlorinated).
Attached is an article of a guy that was almost killed by what I am talking about.
http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm
I use it all the time as it does get the metal REAL clean.
The problem is that when brake cleaner gets hot one of the by-products is PHOSGENE gas. This was one of the chemical weapons used in WWI trench warfare. In small doses the chemical can be deadly or worse can cause you to have horrible scarring in your nose and lungs while causing your pancreas to shut down.
Good news is that phosgene gas needs chlorine in its makeup and NON-CHLORINATED brake cleaner is missing the chlorine needed.
My advice is to buy only non-chlorinated brake cleaner. Fortunately a lot of gun people like me use the blue can of non-chlorinated brake cleaner gotten from Walmart. There is a red can of CRC that Walmart sells that I believe contains chlorine (CRC green can brake cleaner is non-chlorinated).
Attached is an article of a guy that was almost killed by what I am talking about.
http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm