black powder fouling

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beagle6 posted this 4 weeks ago

Has anyone used Simple Green to remove black powder fouling? How did it work?

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tomme boy posted this 4 weeks ago

Why? Water works fine.

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RicinYakima posted this 4 weeks ago

It will work just fine. I use two drops of Dawn dish soap in two quarts of hot water. That takes half the patches to get a clean barrel. Water is the active ingredeant, but fastser and easier to clean with a little surfactant. 

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Ed Harris posted this 4 weeks ago

+1 what RIC said. Most people add waaay too much deterrent. Two drops is enough. More than an eye dropper full to a gallon leaves detergent residue in the bore.

73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia

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OU812 posted this 4 weeks ago

Does anyone use grease cookies to help keep black powder fouling soft? I've had very little success using a blow tube. What is the trick?

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delmarskid posted this 4 weeks ago

A friend used grease cookies and swore by them.

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Ed Harris posted this 3 weeks ago

Grease cookie solidly taking up airspace between bullet base and over powder card. Compressed.

73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia

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steveu posted this 3 weeks ago

Wiping between shots with a patch and solution of VW G12 anti freeze and DW mixed 50/50 should take care of the fouling.

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Tom Acheson posted this 3 weeks ago

There are other forums that this subject has been discussed on. Years back the wiping solution of 6 parts water and 1 part water soluble NAPA cutting oil was popular.

However, water was and still is, often preferred.

Then….when do you use it? This mixture was described as a “wiping solution”. A flexible delrin “wiping rod” was used with 3 patches between each shot. The first two patches, one pass with each, that had been soaked (and wrung out) with the water/oil solution and then a dry patch.

The goal was two part. Allow the next round to be chambered AND have the bore in the same condition for each shot.

The wiping exercise was used in very dry environments. But if you were shooting in a humid area, blow tubing was said to be adequate and was often used.

But….it’s like the lucky baseball cap. Superstition… if you had success doing something wearing it, you always wore it. Same with bore wiping. If you had good scores doing it, you always did it.

For me, fouling in the chamber area prevented the next round from being chambered, so my focus is/was addressing that need.

The fun of our hobby for “serious” shooters and experimenters!

Tom

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beltfed posted this 3 weeks ago

Yup

i have been using straight Distilled Water on two patches, wrung out, followed by dry patch

for my Paper Patch loads.  OR  my bore critters soaked, and rolled on a towel followed by a dry patch.

For GG bullets, I use two damp DW patches and no dry patch or once thru with the bore critters.

Some people will use a chamber swab to remove moisture there to avoid possible case separation

beltfed/arnie

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beltfed posted this 3 weeks ago

Works for me. 

beltfed/arnie

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beagle6 posted this 2 weeks ago

Thanks to all for sharing your experience.

beagle6

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