kroil shooters choice mix
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vinny
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Why mix them?
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amamnn
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When I first started using that witch's brew it was called Marksman's choice and the mix I was told to use was 50/50. I've used it that way for years, and depending upon how much time I have to let it sit in the barrel it works fine..........at the end of the day/session I still use JB and then the witch's brew again..........
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Fireball Fred
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my mix
i mix 1/4 kroil with 3/4SC. one dont have to be precise just a visual mix. Fred
i mix 1/4 kroil with 3/4SC. one dont have to be precise just a visual mix. Fred
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jerroldsr
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Kroil
Like the man said, why mix them. I use a 1 to 1 mix of kroil and whatever is cheap to run a couple patches straight through before pure "choice' on a brush.
Been doing it that way for many years.
Vita est breves
jerrold
Like the man said, why mix them. I use a 1 to 1 mix of kroil and whatever is cheap to run a couple patches straight through before pure "choice' on a brush.
Been doing it that way for many years.
Vita est breves
jerrold
Dick Grosbier
Club Coordinator
Personally I mix Kroil and Original Hoppes about 2 parts Hoppes to 1 part Kroil or whatever ratio I feel like at the time.
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ShadowChaser
Guest
I must be missing some concept in this thread, I have used Hoppe's Solvent for years in my all my guns and never had an issue with it. I have used Kroil for many years for stubborn screws and rust removal and its tops for its purpose in my book... Both are well known good performing products. I also use Butch's bore shine solvent which I consider another very adequate product.
What I'm missing is what is to be gained by mixing these solvents? What benefit is there to combining Kroil with another solvent?
Happy Shooting,
Mitch & Shadow...
What I'm missing is what is to be gained by mixing these solvents? What benefit is there to combining Kroil with another solvent?
Happy Shooting,
Mitch & Shadow...
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jerroldsr
Guest
IMHO It is generally felt that the penetrating properties of Kroil supplement and enhance the properties of "choice", I feel that the saturated patches I start with do just that
Vita est breves
jerrold
I mix SC/Kroil @ 1:1 or 50/50
The mix will deteriorate over time and is UV sensitive I think. I keep the mix in small brown tinted medicine bottles and out of the light. It will go right through those silly plastic bottles that Sinclair sells as "solvent bottles."
The smell alone makes it worth it.
Since I've perty much switched to BBS I use the SC/Kroil for ambiance. I just sprinkled my reloading area a couple days ago...... left a little on a rag.......
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The mix will deteriorate over time and is UV sensitive I think. I keep the mix in small brown tinted medicine bottles and out of the light. It will go right through those silly plastic bottles that Sinclair sells as "solvent bottles."
The smell alone makes it worth it.
Since I've perty much switched to BBS I use the SC/Kroil for ambiance. I just sprinkled my reloading area a couple days ago...... left a little on a rag.......
al
I'm wit' Pete 110% here.....
Carbon and copper need to be melted not "got under..."
IMO
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amamnn
Guest
As an update to my previous post:
Recently I let someone talk me into trying a Doxxlass barrel in 6BR Norma. It stripped so much copper I thought I was a miner...... In that case the SC/kroil mix was not so hot on the range. I tried a buddies bottle of foaming "Wipe Out" and it got copper out a lot better in the time I had on that occasion , but it was really messy...........
Being that I have far too much time on my hands, I messed around with the copper mining barrel at home and found that if you let either the WO or the SC/kroil mix sit in the barrel overnight, they both worked the same.........if blue patches can be believed.
Recently I let someone talk me into trying a Doxxlass barrel in 6BR Norma. It stripped so much copper I thought I was a miner...... In that case the SC/kroil mix was not so hot on the range. I tried a buddies bottle of foaming "Wipe Out" and it got copper out a lot better in the time I had on that occasion , but it was really messy...........
Being that I have far too much time on my hands, I messed around with the copper mining barrel at home and found that if you let either the WO or the SC/kroil mix sit in the barrel overnight, they both worked the same.........if blue patches can be believed.
Pete Wass
Well-known member
I use to use
Eliminator because it would show copper after SC or other solvents had stopped showing color on the patch. There is a thread on this from last year sometime when all of this was hashed over. Some guy who makes a whiz bang copper remover even posted the results of a test he did using the gamit of cleaners on a bullet sitting in the various solutions over night. As I recall, his cleaner dramatically removed more copper than any of the others. Most of the others including Eliminator did not remove much copper over the period he had the bullets soaking. Go look the thread up, it's interesting, if nothing more.
Eliminator because it would show copper after SC or other solvents had stopped showing color on the patch. There is a thread on this from last year sometime when all of this was hashed over. Some guy who makes a whiz bang copper remover even posted the results of a test he did using the gamit of cleaners on a bullet sitting in the various solutions over night. As I recall, his cleaner dramatically removed more copper than any of the others. Most of the others including Eliminator did not remove much copper over the period he had the bullets soaking. Go look the thread up, it's interesting, if nothing more.
B J Atkinson
Member
Interesting point Peter. We can get Eliminator here in Australia, and in my experience it is a good product. What made me laugh though, was the numbers of shooters who claimed they were still getting blue patches out of their barrels long after 'other solvents' had given up. Of course they were! They were using brass jags, and the Eliminator was pouncing on that upon contact.
sbindy
Steve B
The cleaner is KG-12.