Mineral Spriits for cleaning gun parts ?
01-03-2011, 01:10 PM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 13
Mineral Spriits for cleaning gun parts ?
Is it ok to clean metal gun parts with mineral spirits ?
Seems to me when I was in the Army we would strip down
our M16's and dip the weapon parts in some sort of solvent in
a huge tub.
Think maybe it was mineral spirits, but not sure.....
Number 8
Seems to me when I was in the Army we would strip down
our M16's and dip the weapon parts in some sort of solvent in
a huge tub.
Think maybe it was mineral spirits, but not sure.....
Number 8
01-04-2011, 07:17 AM
#3
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 588
It won't hurt it. In the Army I used to keep a can of break clearner to clean my M16. All they gave us was break free which didn't clean very well. I hated break free back then but now I use the break free with CLP after I clean my guns with solvent.
01-04-2011, 07:42 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: central Wisconsin
Posts: 479
No factories can use that anymore because of EPA and OSHA rules. It worked so good and the substitutes really don't. I was my company's metallurgist so I had gallon bottles of methanol all over the place. That works good too.
01-05-2011, 07:52 AM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: 5a
Posts: 183
My company used to have barrels of MEK sitting around. Man that stuff would clean anything. Not very good for your health or the enviroment though.
