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Concentrated Ammonia for cleaning barrels
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<blockquote data-quote="ricka0" data-source="post: 69918" data-attributes="member: 3086"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p></p><p>B1g B0re my friend, try my way before you slam it man. You just might recall this statement!</p><p></p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]</p><p></p><p>I bet your right. Concentrated Ammonia is a pain in the arse - it's horrible. Remember I'm learning - so I have a license to flip flop /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif I'd love to try it but I can't find it. No slam intended.</p><p></p><p></p><p> [ QUOTE ]</p><p> </p><p> Curious. Sweets and CR10 are only 5% ammonia and both companies tell you right on the bottle to not leave it in the barrel longer than 10 min and you are using 100% ammonia and leave it in overnight? Sounds bad to me, but if you say you haven't lost accuracy I believe you. </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]</p><p></p><p>Yep, that's how the debate started 18 months ago on the BH ( 50 BMG forum ). The speculation is you leave some in your barrel, unsealed, and it drips out or evaporates. It has stripped all the oil so your barrel starts to rust.</p><p> As mentioned Liljas site says Ammonia by itself can't harm and one guy tested it. You must clean out the ammonia in your barrel when your done then apply oil.</p><p></p><p>One minor pedantic note (just don't call me Jon Kerry for flip flopping and being pedantic /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif) It's not 100% ammonia but it's much stronger than CR10, Sweets, etc.</p><p></p><p>abinok writes: [ QUOTE ]</p><p> I thought the issue was one of the ammonia stripping all the oils, </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ] </p><p>Exactly - at least that's the consensus after extensive debate on the topic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ricka0, post: 69918, member: 3086"] [ QUOTE ] B1g B0re my friend, try my way before you slam it man. You just might recall this statement! [/ QUOTE ] I bet your right. Concentrated Ammonia is a pain in the arse - it's horrible. Remember I'm learning - so I have a license to flip flop [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I'd love to try it but I can't find it. No slam intended. [ QUOTE ] Curious. Sweets and CR10 are only 5% ammonia and both companies tell you right on the bottle to not leave it in the barrel longer than 10 min and you are using 100% ammonia and leave it in overnight? Sounds bad to me, but if you say you haven't lost accuracy I believe you. [/ QUOTE ] Yep, that's how the debate started 18 months ago on the BH ( 50 BMG forum ). The speculation is you leave some in your barrel, unsealed, and it drips out or evaporates. It has stripped all the oil so your barrel starts to rust. As mentioned Liljas site says Ammonia by itself can't harm and one guy tested it. You must clean out the ammonia in your barrel when your done then apply oil. One minor pedantic note (just don't call me Jon Kerry for flip flopping and being pedantic [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]) It's not 100% ammonia but it's much stronger than CR10, Sweets, etc. abinok writes: [ QUOTE ] I thought the issue was one of the ammonia stripping all the oils, [/ QUOTE ] Exactly - at least that's the consensus after extensive debate on the topic. [/QUOTE]
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