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Junior Member
Join Date: October 10, 2012
Posts: 1
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cleaning
I am trying to find the best way to clean wax build up in 1803 springfield rifles.We have been shooting banks .The wax is not allowing loading.I was thinking hoppe's 9. Or has someone got a home made formula?
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Senior Member
Join Date: November 12, 2000
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Posts: 9,457
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Do you mean blanks? Almost any cleaner should cut through wax. Hoppes or whatever.
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Senior Member
Join Date: February 28, 2008
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,680
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I'd try Ed's Red to clean any build up.
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Join Date: August 6, 2009
Location: Albuquerque
Posts: 2,269
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Hot paraffin oil, heated in a water bath, is great to remove wax. The problem with most gun cleaners and wax is the speed of dissolution, it will eventually dissolve if you cap the barrel, but otherwise the cleaner has evaporated before the was is in solution.
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