Best solvent for polymer frames?

[kenemoore]

My only Kahr is all stainless steel.
But I've got six Heckler & Koch polymer guns too.
I use Ballistol on all my handguns.
It has a distinctive pungent smell.
But it's good stuff.

^^^^Same here, I use it on all mine.

[TennSCN]

Hoppe's Elite


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Cleans very quickly and I can use it in the house without..., well, you know.

[marcinstl]

any poly gun--- buy an Oxo small items basket for the dishwasher. field strip the gun and place parts in basket, run thru the usual cycle using a good, non-spotting soap. lube the parts with favorite gun lubes and your ready to go. first saw this technique in a video recommended on the Glock forum. for 1911's, wait for a rainy day and make a pot of coffee, have fun, labor of old school love.

[OldFatGuy]

any poly gun--- buy an Oxo small items basket for the dishwasher. field strip the gun and place parts in basket, run thru the usual cycle using a good, non-spotting soap. lube the parts with favorite gun lubes and your ready to go. first saw this technique in a video recommended on the Glock forum. for 1911's, wait for a rainy day and make a pot of coffee, have fun, labor of old school love.

Dishwasher????? Not everyone is as high class....

[muggsy]

any poly gun--- buy an Oxo small items basket for the dishwasher. field strip the gun and place parts in basket, run thru the usual cycle using a good, non-spotting soap. lube the parts with favorite gun lubes and your ready to go. first saw this technique in a video recommended on the Glock forum. for 1911's, wait for a rainy day and make a pot of coffee, have fun, labor of old school love.

They laughed at me when I told them that I threw my Kahr in the dish washer, Marc. Just so you know your not alone.

[CJB]

Dishwaher works well ! Was the trick for my Ruger Old Army, and currently when I shoot black powder in my Vaquero.

Er... just take the grips off first!

[Manzanita]

I'm a cheapskate. For the frame I use a mixture of Ed's Red (hold the acetone) for the cleaning and scrubbing then a good shot of non-chlorinated brake cleaner to wash that stinky stuff off. Then it's straight over to the air compressor to quickly blow dry the brake cleaner off. After that, a shot of ptfe dry lube around the trigger/bar/cam area.

[jocko]

I just b low the piss outy of everything with non cholorinated brake cleaner. iT drys fast,tht I don't need my air compressor to dry out anything. Mosty of these cleaners will INDEED CLEAN so be sure and lubricate the necessary area, . Kahrs lube chart is a dandy imo, jUST SAYIN..

WORKS ON ANY GUN BUT AS cjb EVEN STATED TAKE YOUR GRIPS OFF IF THEY ARE WOOD, JUST ERROR ON THE SIDE OF CAQUTION. We do have a fella here on this forum who is a master at efinishinbg grips but he is color blind. I have the finest looking (to him) Heretts grips on my odel 60 stainless that he refinished in the purdiest PINK u ever seen. I said he was color blind, didbn't I..

[marcinstl]

when I was just a mechanic (long before I became an internet firearms expert) , I just used carb/choke cleaner, then some brakleen, dab on some ATF or Marvel Mystery Oil(love the graphics on the can) and maybe some lithium grease. on real sloppy stuff like the old mossberg pump, some permatex moly anti seize grease (the silver stuff) would make it smooth and glitch free. back in the 70's when I was shooting some kind of spanish(?) made replica Remington 1858 in .36 cal., I'd paste up the end of the cylinder with bacon grease. blackpowder and bacon is a wonderful smell.