Ed's Red
and you make it yourself by the gallon.
Works great, and you can tailor the formula
to be a cleaner, a lube or a preservative.
Ed's Red is made with a quart each of,
Kerosene,
mineral spirits,
automatic transmission fluid.
For a solvent cleaner add a quart of acetone.
For a preservative add anhydrous Lanolin.
Many older gun oils and cleaners used Sperm Whale oil as it
was then the finest available.
During WW II. a substitute had to be found and ATF was invented, it makes a very good lubricant all by itself.
It's Ed's, it's Red, and it smells good too
especially if you add a tiny bottle of Oil of Clove, which by the way should be in every medicine cabinet for toothache!
Works wonders on a cotton swab and it tastes good too.
It's cheap and easy to make and when you have a gallon
you use a lot more of it and that gets out more dirt as
you aren't trying to scrimp on the $5 an ounce stuff.
Look it up on the net, a lot of happy and satisfied users.
One quart each: Kerosene, Paint Thinner, DexronIII, and Acetone.
IMO, the acetone is not optional. It really helps to cut the crud, particularly the plastic residue from shotshell wads.
C.E.Harris did come up with a good recipe, I like it too.