Ed's Red

cylinder and slide in fremont, NE. used to sell some red cleaning fluid there on the net.

You can also add ammonia to the basic ER formula if you need to remove copper fouling. I don't remember the ratio, but I can look it up if anyone is interested.

T. J. said:

You can also add ammonia to the basic ER formula if you need to remove copper fouling. I don't remember the ratio, but I can look it up if anyone is interested.

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I ,for one, would be very interested in the ratio of ammonia in the mixture!

I had forgotten that there was a little more to it than just ammonia. Here's the recipe:

11 oz. Ed's Red
2 oz. 10-20% ammonia
2 oz. Rustlick WS-11 cutting oil
1 oz. Murphy's oil soap

My source is this:

http://frfrogspad.com/homemade.htm

If you are a shooter, there's lots of other stuff on that page and the whole website as well.

I've had some time since I first posted about Ed's Red to experiment with it a bit. I'm still impressed with it. What I find myself doing is mixing it to suit my application. Today for instance, I was disassembling and cleaning the apron on my Hendey. I mixed it kind of hot with acetone. The cases had some serious gunk in them, some of it was hardened. After brushing it on and letting it sit for a while I hit it with one of those cheap detail brushes from horror freight and the gunk came right off. As a bonus it softened the green paint on the exterior of the case and it brushed right off too. The only thing left was a little of the original paint. I'm done buying degreasers at the store. The downside for me is, during the heating season I'll have to curtail my use because I have a radiant tube heater. Any solvents tend to get real smelly when that runs.