Resurrected X90 (allow for little bragging) :-)

[kaplar]

Originally Posted by grc1

... We used WD40 for cleaning antiqe guns before dissasmbly. We kept them in over night and it used to do a good job...

It makes sense that WD40 would do a good job. Never occurred to me to use it though, because I was limited to using only lab approved solutions.


PS.
A decent size ultra-sound (ultrasonic) bath can be found on eBay for about $250.

[grc1]

Originally Posted by kaplar

It makes sense that WD40 would do a good job. Never occurred to me to use it though, because I was limited to using only lab approved solutions.


PS.
A decent size ultra-sound (ultrasonic) bath can be found on eBay for about $250.

Wow ,have the prices really gone down. I bought mine in 1980 and payed a lot more.It also came with a fillter system to keep fluid clean.

One of the main resons other than cleaning old guns in it was that WD40 gets into every nook and crany of what your cleaning and it makes other chemicals inert, such as gunpowder. Saidly about 30% of antiqe guns that used to come in my shop were still loaded.( old black powder style). Yep even unused but loaded after a hundred years, can be very dangerous.