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has anyone ever or still use sea-foam to get carbon out of a dirty carbon barrel ? someone on here brought it up about using sea-foam on the top of car pistons to clean pistons , so now i am wondering would that work on rifle barrels full of carbon and if it did it should improve accuracy ? i use wipe -out now but if sea-foam worked ? who knows ? thanks,Pete53

Yes, I have used seafoam and can say it works reasonably well on powder fouling.

interesting thanks

It works on carbs for sure

It should. Hadn't thought about it before. But it should.

I use Mercury Quicksilver power tune and Amzoil Foaming Engine Cleaner to remove fouling in the past, works quite well actually , and I think Sinclair still sells Mercury Quicksilver in their online store.
I run a patch through and let it sit for a few minutes before going after the copper fouling in a barrel.
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I use Wipe-out and an ultrasonic cleaner to clean my suppressors. I guess I should try Seafoam instead.

I have used Wipe-Out and Sea Foam to remove carbon. I like the Wipe-Out better.

Hand sanitizer, the foaming kind is my favorite.

i use 1st the accelerator by Wipe-out then i start using Wipeout , but now i wonder ? should i try Sea-Foam 1st ? then the Wipe-out products ?

Wipe Out is a good powder fouling and copper fouling solvent. IME it does nothing to remove carbon fouling

Pete,

Sorry I should have said Free All not Wipe Out. I’ve had better luck using Free All for carbon removal than I ever have Sea Foam.

Correct I should have said Free All. I use Wipe Out for copper fouling, as mentioned.

An old shooting buddy of mine has been very successful in the benchrest for score shooting games the last few years & Seafoam is his go to.

good tp know i need to try some seafoam,thanks Pete53

Good to know. Maybe I'll give it a try on some stubborn carbon in some of my barrels.

Thanks Pete for taking my question in another thread and making it it's own post.

thanks for bringing this to attention to 24 hr campfire i was hoping for many more comments yet ? i still have not tried seafoam . i sure hope it works well for all who try seafoam ? years ago i tried a G.M. cleaner but i liked Wipe Out better for now.

How many on this thread recommending one product or another has a bore scope?

I tried Seafoam once and wasn't impressed. It worked but there are much better products out there.

If you read the instructions for Dyna-Tech Bore Coat, the method for prepping a barrel is about as good as it gets: wrap a patch around a bronze brush, coat it with JB Bore Compound (I use Flitz) and give it 100 turns up and back, changing patches and refreshing the goo several times.

Very little will stand up to that treatment.

ME > i HAVE A BORE SCOPE for many years

I have a Teslong and that’s how I figured out the Free All was doing a better job than the Sea Foam. It’s also a curse as well, as I found out I don’t clean as well as I thought I did.

I've got a Teslong. Honorable #2 son, Moose, brought me a basket case CVA .50 cal muzzleloader he'd picked up somewhere and couldn't get it to fire worth a poop. I threw the Teslong down it and discovered an incredible build up of crud. He'd already cleaned the hell out of it, but we went down to the Shamanic Secret Underground Reloading Facility (SSURF) and gave it the Bore Coat pre-treat-treatment. It cleaned it up better than new.

I decided to give SeaFoam a try. I had previously purchased some rubber vial stoppers in various sizes a few years back so that I could use them to plug the chamber and fill up a bore with solvent to allow it to soak. I figured it was past time I finally put them to use.

I plugged the chamber of a rifle with hard baked-on carbon in the first 7" or so of the throat/barrel and filled up the barrel with SeaFoam. I let it sit for 90 minutes then drained the barrel and patched it until the patches came out "clean". The first patches were darkish gray and certainly had some carbon on them. After re-checking with the borescope, it does appear as if the SeaFoam made a slight difference, but not a significant one. I had hoped that the SeaFoam would help soften the baked on carbon so as much elbow grease wouldn't be needed. No suck luck.

At least, a 90 minute soak didn't do it. I don't know if adding more time would make a difference, but I'm thinking it probably wouldn't affect things greatly.

CRC GDI cleaner is the best carbon remover I've found.

Seafoam is snakeoil and doesn't work for anything..

I use Carbon-off, best stuff I've found.

carbon ofg

Including th top of the lands. There is a good example on the web by Bartlein Barrels, including photos of the ruined barrel, about this very thing. Do not do this.