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To: M1903A1

I first heard about using window cleaner with ammonia to kill the corrosive salts in mil surplus ammo many years ago. I use it on my new guns now makes barrels sparkle just make sure it is dried out then lay the oil to it....


72 posted on 05/19/2012 3:57:55 PM PDT by Lees Swrd ("Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well")
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To: Lees Swrd

I’ve heard of that too, but only recently. Main trick I was taught was to use water—preferably hot soapy water—to dissolve and wash the primer salts out of the barrel.

Interestingly, while use of ammonia dope was supposedly banned by the US Army in the 1930s, a 1950s manual from FN of Belgium (describing depot-level maintenance for the FAL rifle) still listed the recipe and how to use it.


73 posted on 05/19/2012 5:01:10 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: Lees Swrd
I first heard about using window cleaner with ammonia to kill the corrosive salts in mil surplus ammo many years ago. I use it on my new guns now makes barrels sparkle just make sure it is dried out then lay the oil to it....

No matter to me. I have to very carefully clean and dry rifles I've de-Cosmolined by my usual procedure of taking them to the local car wash. The hot water spray works great [no hot wax, please!] but the water softener used at such establishments is...salt. Accordingly, rinse well after wards, preferably a couple of times. And then oil appropriately.

79 posted on 05/21/2012 11:46:14 AM PDT by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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