Peroxide?

[Jay Gardner]

Anyone use peroxide as part of their cleaning routine? Dropped my nipple in a small jar with peroxide this afternoon and WOW did it clean off the crud.

 

[curator]

We use peroxide for a "field expedient" cleaning during the living history reenactments our museum hosts. Simply plug the nipple or flash hole and pour 4-5 oz. down the bore. Swish back and forth with your thumb over the muzzle and pour the sludge out. Repeat once and dry with cotton patches. Works great but the barrel does get warm to hot in the process. This really scrubs the crud out with the least effort. Final cleaning is with cold water since the peroxide can also cause rust. (its an oxidizer after all) Balistol as the final step keeps rust at bay. All our guns are checked for "after-rust" a few weeks later just to be sure.

 

[Birddog6]

I would no sooner do that than pour battery acid or something like that in the bore. Peroxide may boil out the fouling, but it also may get trapped in the pores or breechplug area/fit & cause a real etching & rusting issue later on. :shake: No way I would chance it.

Cold water flush with flushing kit, a squirt of liquid dishwater soap, patches on a jag, a good rinse, dry, oil, check & swab with rust inhibitor 2 days afterwards. Takes all of 15 min to completely clean the rifle & it has worked for me for 35 years. You can thuroughly clean a flintlock fullstock in the same amount of time you can thuroughly clean a modern HP rifle, once you are used to the procedure.

If ya want detailed instructions, email me at
[email protected] ...... Put Cleaning Instructions in the subject line so it doesn't go to Spam file.

Keith Lisle

 

[mykeal]

I carry a small bottle of peroxide in my kit for occasional emergency field use, mostly on guns that have not had a chance for a thorough home cleaning for a while. It must be completely flushed out, as was mentioned, but there's no reason to shy away from it as long as you're careful.

I do not use it at home, preferring instead to use my version of Kieth's method.

 

[Rat Trapper]

One qt of peroxide, cup of baking soda, teaspoon of dawn dish soap, gets rid of skunk smell and makes skinning more pleasant.
If you don't trap and skin skunks, you are missing out of a traitional early american historic activty. They smell like money to me!

 

[rawhide]

I use moose milk. or it's called 3 rivers cleaner. works great and all it is 1 part proxide 1 part murrfys soap 1 part isupople alccohl.(I don't think I spelled it right) mix in a plastic botle wet patch and scub away. claens the gun up good. or at roundy camps I use hot water and dish soup.

 

[paulvallandigham]

"Isopropyl alcohol". :thumbsup:

 

I have to agree whole heartedly with Kieth. I carry a small spray bottle of peroxide to clean my hands, after I've cleaned the rifle with soapy water.
Mark

 

[Maven]

Doublegun, Although I use hydrogen peroxide to clean BP and Pyrodex fouling, I don't use it undiluted or by itself. Rather, I use it with isopropyl alcohol (90% if you can find it) and Murphy's Oil Soap. The proportions are equal or 1/3 cup (or your favorite measure) of each, and is also known as "Friendship Speed Juice." It works, but if you use it to clean your bbl., make sure you don't leave the solution in it for more than 15 mins. and then flush, dry, and oil thoroughly. This stuff works quickly, but I get about the same results from an isopropyl alcohol, vinegar, water + a few drops of dish soap these days. Btw, I've had no rusting, pitting, or other harm to my guns as a consequence of using the peroxide solution.

 

[ohio ramrod]

Peroxide is used in our local area for handwashing, first aid, and gun cleaning as well. As posted, it is an oxidiser so don't leave it in too long and make sure you get the entire rifle bore/breech area dry and oiled after cleaning. :hmm:

 

[longbow1]

You do know that peroxide and alcohl was used in the V2 rockets during ww2 (Oxidizer and fuel)

 

[Maven]

Thanks for reminding me of that, but it wasn't the household variety @ 3% concentration, but something like 80% - 85%. Now that's something I wouldn't use in my guns!

 

[ebiggs1]

"Isopropyl alcohol". :thumbsup:

I have started to carry a small spray bottle of denatured alcohol in my shooting bag.
:thumbsup:

 

[rawhide]

yep that stuff! I realy need spell check on this thing! :haha:

 

[paulvallandigham]

Hey, I was only trying to help. :grin:

I have a dictionary in a draw of the desk on which my computer sits, and I have to consult it all the time. But its hard to find words when you really have no IDEA how to begin spelling them!

People tell me that Wikipedia helps you find the correct spelling on the net, if you Google the word with whatever way you spell it. I am not used to doing that for spelling words. I don't know how truly successful that system is.

Personally, I have enough trouble with my big fingers creating typos here, I don't get quite as angry at myself over a misspelled word.

 

[CoyoteJoe]

You can download a free spell check program from Google. I also use an inexpensive electronic thesaurus "Frankin Wordmaster". Either will give you alternate spellings for a misspelled word and the thesaurus also provides definitions of the words to help find the word you want. Where spell check fails is when you misspell one word you may have correctly spelled another so spell check accepts it as a correct spelling.

 

[Zonie]

Due ewe sea sum air's?
My spell checker doesn't. :rotf:

 

[Bill Hall]

I just google the word in question, like the word "spegetty", and when it comes up, the screen will say "did you mean SPAGHETTI?". Ya, that's it. Thanks Mr. Google :thumbsup: . Bill