Hoppes #9

[jjfitch]

Seriously mercury is not really hazardous at regular temps. Heating it up or mixing with other chemicals and it can become a bit more worrisome. Plug the bore...pour it in the bore let it sit for a while and voila clean bore..no scrubbing with harsh chemicals and brushes etc. Mercury IS hard to find these days and it is expensive if you do. quite a few years ago a flask(22 lbs??) was about 450 bucks. I was able to get it years ago as I was a gunsmith. I also was able to acquire Sperm oil and still have some of it too...but that is another story

I can't wait to hear about Sperm Oil!

Pretty sure we all know about Sperm Whale Oil though!

Yeah, I know I'm a "dork"!

 

[DWalt]

Interesting fact about sperm oil. It is still used for lubricating certain mechanical components of nuclear weapons as it does not thicken or gum up under extreme conditions.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Just the other night, I put a dab behind each ear, before going out to dinner.

Helps keep the mosquitoes away.

I do know that in 1959, north of Sacramento Calif. at a duck club, in the summer time, I used some "GI" mosquito oil and I got some on a Savage 22 rifle stock.
At the end of the day when we got back to the club house I cleaned the rifle and noticed that the rifle's finish on the pistol grip had been eaten away, but the bug oil!!

I also learned to never get any in your eyes................. !!

 

[Skeet 028]

Interesting fact about sperm oil. It is still used for lubricating certain mechanical components of nuclear weapons as it does not thicken or gum up under extreme conditions.

And believe it or not we actually used to get the sperm Whale oil from Russia. That is where I used to get mine.

 

[Kinman]

I have a green military can labelled "CLEANER" RIFLE BORE. Right under that is written POISON. This stuff works very well and if I play my cards right I could have my hands on the mother load. I found a stash in a closet of an old wrecking yard I still like to haunt. There must have been at least a couple of boxes containing dozens on the shelf in the closet, the building is in a very sad state of repair and is being used to keep parts out of the weather. In places the building is being propped up by well placed shoring, I love places like that, the scarier they are the more treasures you find. When I first found them I was seriously looking for something else and after finding a few of them corroded from water damage I grabbed a nice clean can and went about my original search, the owner had no interest in the can and let me have it for nothing, he might be more interested in getting something out of them if they were actually worth anything.

P.S. I won't be going into the wrecking yard again until after the first frost, wasps and hornets are controlling the area at the moment.