38SPL HV
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What solvents would you recommend cleaning a stainless revolver, in my case a Ruger SP101, besides Hoppes 9 and water base products?
What solvent for stainless revolvers?
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Outpost75
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Kano Kroil or 50-50 ATF and mineral spirits.
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Would Castrol Synthetic ATF work with the mineral spirits?
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Yes! Absolutely.
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And cost ten or more times the simple ATF-mineral spirit mix.
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bigggbbruce
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I use a spritz of Remoil. Cleans and lubricates.
anything I would use on a blued one.
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Besides using a traditional solvent like Hoppes #9 I use Pro Shot Lead Removal Cloths for removing cylinder burn rings, top strap burn marks, and forcing cone burn marks.
They work great for polishing and lead and stain removal, but since they'll remove bluing, I only use them on stainless revolvers.
They work great for polishing and lead and stain removal, but since they'll remove bluing, I only use them on stainless revolvers.
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Whatever solvent you have handy will work well, but use an actual solvent, not a CLP concoction.
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Butch's Bore Shine works for me.
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I clean my guns after every range session. Normally I just use G96 Synthetic CLP and it works very well. It's pretty much just like Breakfree CLP but the G96 seems to clean a bit better. When my guns get dirtier than normal (due to round count) I will use Hoppes 9 solvent. After cleaning with the Hoppes 9 solvent, I will remove the Hoppes with the G96 which lubricates and protects as well. Don't like just leaving solvent on a gun. BTW, these are great for blued guns as well.
Use whatever gun solvent you have available. What's wrong with Hoppes 9?
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I came to this late, after hearing about it since the 60's but now I use Ed's Red except for copper fouling in high velocity rifles.
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Same here. Used Hoppes#9 for a long time. Now I just wipe them down with an oily cloth on the outside but still use Hoppes#9 or a black powder cleaning solution called Black Off.
Even after cleaning with Hoppes#9 I still wipe the gun down with that oily rag.
Pisgah
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Go to Walmart and buy the cheapest gun oil and cheapest cleaning solvent they have. Nothing special is called for, and nothing labelled for guns is going to harm it.
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I agree with a couple of previous posts. I've used Hoppe's (and still do) for years with zero issues. No need for expensive or new to the market wonder cleaners.
sparkyvega
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In reality, any type of solvent/cleaner works fine on SS, save those that contain halogens such as chlorine.
It's a Ruger… you could drop it in a vat of acid and it would survive just fine. Don't overthink it.
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