Anyone clean their gun with shaving cream?

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Navy Joe, you might try some of the scientific suppy houses. I bought 5 lb's of mercury from a place that sold supplies at an e-bay type of auction. The guy i bought from said he had 70 lb's more. Only problem is i don't have his # anymore. I found it with a google search. I paid $70.00 for the 5 lb's. Thomas.
 
I dunno about shaving cream, but I like Boretech Eliminator for cleaning. It removes powder and copper. Better than my Montana Extreme AND it doesn't reek of ammonia. Once I tried Eliminator, I haven't used anything else for cleaning. The blue patches were very surprising. I started out with a 4oz bottle. Bought the big 16 oz bottle the other day.

As for Q-Tips, they work great like a previous poster said. I like to pull a little of the cotton off so that they are smaller and will fit into some of the gas tubes/ports better.
 
.. what do you guys want mercury for? that stuff is pretty highly toxic. you dont even want to inhale vapors of that stuff, much less touch it. the only half way sane reason i can think of that a guy might want mercury for hobby use is in gold mining. i know a guy who is really in to that. we all think he's crazy and his wife is a saint for putting up with nonsense.

i think mercury mining is illegal, anyway. not to mention that refining the heavy metal sludge is very likely to lead to all sorts of biological damage.

anyway, back to shavign cream. i remember one time when a particular adventurous friend decided to find out what happens if you put Ben-Gay on "my gun". he screamed and hopped about like a plucked turkey for about 10 minutes. 10 very long minutes.

ill stick to CLP, #9, sweets, windex, and gun scrubber, thanks. in a real pinch id use Piss, but i sure as hell wouldn't want to dwell on the quality of the stuff coming out after the patch at that point. good for corrosive salts, though, i'd imagine.
 
A shaving soap brush used to be common ( I took Army basic in 1973) for cleaning dust, sand off rifles, and it would add A small bit of oil at the same time.
I'm guessing someone heard the shaving brush story and its now shaving cream cleaner
 
Hey guys, Just retired from the ARMY( Combat Engineer-Commo) had never heard of using shaving cream to clean a weapon... Used a lot of "Windex "to clean my my black powder stuff.... By the way, it's almost 2008 and the little .204 Ruger is still here. Just bought one, love it. Sarg
 
Hey, forgot to mention, a shaving brush is great to apply a little oil after cleaning your (Weapon) Gun ..
 
Hey, Nomad101bc, Q tips do work great on the M-16, so doeg carburator cleaner..
 
Shaving cream is mostly water with moisturizers & scents, I would figure it is more effective in helping moisture penetrate into the microfissures of gun steel rather than cleaning it.
 
I have heard of shaving cream being used before, but I have never seen it. Somebody give it a try and let us know how it goes.
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Why? If someone can't afford a few bucks for a proper gun cleaning system, he should find a less expensive hobby. There are several makers of gun care products competing for your bucks. Do you think they are holding back anything but the best products they can formulate to keep their customers coming back?

I use brake cleaner on brakes; carburetor cleaner on carburetors (been a while); toothpaste on my teeth; motor oil in my car; and products made for guns on my guns. The cost of a couple boxes of ammo, which you'll probably shoot up in one session at the range, will buy a set of all the gun cleaners and lubes you'll need and probably last for months. Don't cheap out on makeshift products. Just my opinion.

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We used shaving cream in basic to clean our M-14 just befor we turned them in prior to getting out of basic. We scrubbed them with solvent, used a bore brush and a chamber brush and patches....Then we used the brushes with shaving cream and rinsed our rifles with very very hot water. Hot enough to easily evaporate. When the rifle was dry we applied a light coat of oil and it was ready for our final inspection the next morning. I have since found that dishwashing liquid detergent works better than shaving cream if you want to clean a rifle.
 
Good for burning,itching,and inflamation too !

:what:Preperation H is the best gun lube there is.It's the shark liver oil that's in it,don't ya know?:neener::neener::neener:
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Never heard the shaving cream trick.
We used dawn dish washing detergent and piping hot water on the crew serves and it worked great.

Pete
 
I've dunked the trigger group of my Marlin 60 in hot water with dish soap, then rinsed it out and dried it with a hair drier. Most of the time I use gun cleaning products, but it was really dirty and I couldn't get into all the nooks and crannies, even with a q-tip.
 
If you really want to go the cheap route....Ed's Red. Find the formula on the internet. It works great and you make an entire gallon of it at a time. I cannot remember how much it cost to make it but I think it was less than 20 dollars. It has acetone, kerosene, ATF, mineral spirits, and 1 or 2 other ingredients. Gives you good cleaning and lubrication qualities. I use it as my general cleaner and Sweet's 7.62 as my copper scrubber for my centerfire rifles.
 
When my "gun" was an M60...I would clean it with shaving cream and very, very hot water. Scrub it until the shaving cream stays white. Worked suprisingly well and fast. Dry it off really well and lube it with CLP.

No need to use it unless you've got a machine gun you just put 1000+ rds through. Don't know if it works better than other more conventional options, but it worked a lot better than CLP, rags and Q-tips. Haven't done it since I was an E-4 over 13 years ago.
 
I used shaving cream to clean my M-60 back in the day, too. Fill that receiver up with foam, let it sit a spell, then flush with scalding hot water. Worked like a charm.
 
I have heard of people disassembling their firearms and running them through their dish washer. Even rifles with years of caked on crud and cosmolene. Even wooden stocks. The steam tends to reduce dings in the stock.

Never personally tried it, but can't see how the firearm would be hurt.
 
I know that my Walther likes to throw on a little cologne before it hits the town in the evening... I swear that thing has the killer instinct!

So much for 5 O' Glock Shadow!
 
Some guys in my basic PLT used shaving cream in that final week when the DS requires weapons to be spotless. They ended up spending just as much time as those of us who didn't use it because they had to thoroughly clean the cream off with water then dry it very well.

I've never seen it used outside of that basic experience. Not really worth it in my opinion. I'll stick with Hoppe's 9 and Militec.
 
Kentak, It's not the cost of cleaning "stuff" to clean my guns, It's just that carb cleaner works great, Cost more than most gun cleaners, We use a lot of BREAK FREE to clean and lubricate the moving parts in the M-16, by order of someone a little higher up than myself.. It's their property and they furnish what they want you to use.. The M-16 is unique in it's gas piston is in the bolt, collects a lot of carbon which in combat, you just don't want... ask any one how 's depends on your weapon, not on the range. some one mentioned using a Q tip, well most M-16 cleaning kits contain pipe cleaners, why not Q-tips?
 
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