Hoppes No. 9 Solvent

[Fishslayer]

Don't know what's in it but that wonderful smell !!!!

IIRC it's bannana oil...

[meaty-btz]

The original formula had benzine in it---a cancer causing chemical---I too still have a very old bottle in it's original box. I use Remclean or Shooters Choice these days.

Indeed, but I hate to break it to you but as far as cancer-causing chemicals go, that breath you just took..... and that one just now void of any man-made compound is in, and of itself, cancer causing.
O2, killing us by oxidation with each and every breath.

With all man-made chemicals, you simply apply precautions. I have used all kinds of nasty things in my life. Mostly in painting and automotive applications.

Iso-cyanates are fun ones.

I have no problems with "cancer causing chemicals" when used CORRECTLY. No, they regulate it because idiots can't use it correctly or kids huff it and die so I am left with ineffective compounds for use when I need them. Personally, I would rather they let those people die.

Have you ever seen the end of the road for people in our current times? Alone, warehoused, dishonored, even abused. You die by inches, kept alive by a veritable army of technicians and machines each leaping at every jump to keep life sustained in a failing carcase that is rotting away. Eventually you progress beyond even their means and finally achieve rest and peace. You reach the same end as you would have met before, only that the road is longer and more painful to get there.

There is no point in extending life for life's sake. What matters is not the length of life but the quality of life. As I have gotten older the more I do not wish to live in decrepitude. I know what awaits me at the end of the road and I will get there in due time. We make a mockery of life and call it good and life and convince ourselves that it must be done, for their own good.

So why this long rant?
Chemicals, some are dangerous, others out right deadly. I am not bothered by that fact nor their presence. I handle them as I have all my life, with care and thoughtfulness. I see no point in living in fear of something ending my life when there are plenty of things every day that might do just that at a moments notice. I would be jumping at every shadow, living in abject terror. That seems a poor way to live ones life.

I want the GOOD chemicals, those that WORK, and I want the processes made available and without undue costs to properly dispose of them.

Give me Hoppes 9 in its working form. Give me JB Weld 2ton epoxy in its original form that I recall actually WORKED. Give me paint strippers that work and liquid nails that is an epoxy that is so strong that you cant even GRIND it down with an angle grinder. SO strong it stands for 30-40-50 years ( we used this stuff to hang blackboards in schools BTW). Give me wood finnishes that actually last for at least half a century. The Paint that stands up to weather.

[AAShooter]

Try Ed's Red. Once you do, you will never buy commercial gun solvents again.

Someone gave me a bottle of that but I have never used it. Not sure what it does to the finish of plastic or wood parts.

[meaty-btz]

Just realised my rant sounded like:



lol

or better:

[compulsivegunbuyer]

[LCE]

IIRC it's bannana oil...

I believe that's what it is.

[dadoody]

I like to keep hoppes 9 in a large glass mason jar and use it as a soak stew. I just fish parts out with small tongs. Thick build comes off with a quick wipe.

I label the jar "Cancerous Toxic Stew: Do Not Touch"