guns & bleach water

[Venus Pax]

Since I'm home for the next few months, I'm taking on the bigger chores that don't get done during the school year.
Today was clean-two-exterior-walls-of-the-house day. This required a bleach water and laundry detergent solution.

I've made it a habit to wear a gun anytime I'm not inside my locked house. Although I never meant for the bleach solution to get anywhere but my siding, I got cleaned up too.

When I checked my gun later that day, I noticed that a few rustish patches were starting to appear. I cleaned these areas promptly with Hoppes #9 & followed with gun oil.

Just a reminder that our guns don't likely bathe as often as we do, yet they're out and about running errands and working just like we are. Do a little spot check regularly. I'm glad I did.

Now if I could just get the smell of bleach out of my nostrils. :x

[jimlongley]

Remember that bleaches are oxidizers and rust is oxidation of the metal, so you essentially speed up the rusting process by getting bleach on something that rusts.

A good cleaning and oiling should take care of it, as you have already done.

[Crossfire]

Now if I could just get the smell of bleach out of my nostrils. :x

Hoppe's works for that too. Now, if I can just get the Hoppe's smell out of my nostrils!

[flintknapper]

Now if I could just get the smell of bleach out of my nostrils. :x

Hoppe's works for that too. Now, if I can just get the Hoppe's smell out of my nostrils!

Bleach works for that!

[hi-power]

Now if I could just get the smell of bleach out of my nostrils. :x

Hoppe's works for that too. Now, if I can just get the Hoppe's smell out of my nostrils!

Bleach works for that!

[stevie_d_64]

Now if I could just get the smell of bleach out of my nostrils. :x

Hoppe's works for that too. Now, if I can just get the Hoppe's smell out of my nostrils!

Bleach works for that!

[mr surveyor]

I would never wash off my aftershave with bleach

[Venus Pax]

I would never wash off my aftershave with bleach

[jrosto]

#9 is the best smell on earth.

[mr surveyor]

#9 is the best smell on earth.

yep, it's a fine aftershave, but CLP is the #1 deoderant in MY cabinet

[ForbidInjustice]

A quick clarification on that, please.

When I bought my Glock 23 [first gun] a couple months ago, on the inside rails of the receiver, it had the rust-coloured lubricant. That was spoken to in the manual; it said to NOT wipe off this stuff, as it helps to provide long-term lubricant of the gun.. or, something to that effect.

Anyway, occasionally I look on my guns and see little tiny patches of something this same colour. Is that the rust you all are referring to? I always clean and oil it immediately afterward to prevent anything, but I just want to make sure I'm doing the right thing.

[AV8R]

Small, rough, brownish spots on the surface of a steel gun often cause concern. If you eat a lot of chili, the brown spots aren't usually serious. If you live in a humid climate, they may be serious.

If the spots are not soluble in either gun oil or something like windex, they are probably rust beginning. On blued or stainless surfaces, a light rubbing with fine steel wool and Hoppe's #9 may remove most of the rust. The spot can then be cleaned with alcohol and treated with a cold bluing solution if necessary to restore the finish.

Gun "rugs", padded cases, and the like tend to aggravate rusting in moist climates, as they trap moisture from condensation against the gun's surface. Two products, Breakfree CLP, and Eezox brand gun oils, have especially good anti-corrosive packages. Keeping your guns clean and lightly coated with these oils, and out of cases during storage, will help keep rust from re-forming.

[westernamerican]

Since I'm home for the next few months, I'm taking on the bigger chores that don't get done during the school year.
Today was clean-two-exterior-walls-of-the-house day. This required a bleach water and laundry detergent solution.

I've made it a habit to wear a gun anytime I'm not inside my locked house. Although I never meant for the bleach solution to get anywhere but my siding, I got cleaned up too.

When I checked my gun later that day, I noticed that a few rustish patches were starting to appear. I cleaned these areas promptly with Hoppes #9 & followed with gun oil.

Just a reminder that our guns don't likely bathe as often as we do, yet they're out and about running errands and working just like we are. Do a little spot check regularly. I'm glad I did.

Now if I could just get the smell of bleach out of my nostrils. :x

Where in this world do you live that you feel that you have to have a gun on if you are outside of your locked house? Where ever it is, I am sure glad I don't live there............

[jimlongley]

Since I'm home for the next few months, I'm taking on the bigger chores that don't get done during the school year.
Today was clean-two-exterior-walls-of-the-house day. This required a bleach water and laundry detergent solution.

I've made it a habit to wear a gun anytime I'm not inside my locked house. Although I never meant for the bleach solution to get anywhere but my siding, I got cleaned up too.

When I checked my gun later that day, I noticed that a few rustish patches were starting to appear. I cleaned these areas promptly with Hoppes #9 & followed with gun oil.

Just a reminder that our guns don't likely bathe as often as we do, yet they're out and about running errands and working just like we are. Do a little spot check regularly. I'm glad I did.

Now if I could just get the smell of bleach out of my nostrils. :x

Where in this world do you live that you feel that you have to have a gun on if you are outside of your locked house? Where ever it is, I am sure glad I don't live there............

Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it, I usually carry both inside and outside my (usually locked) home.

[Fosforos]

A quick clarification on that, please.

When I bought my Glock 23 [first gun] a couple months ago, on the inside rails of the receiver, it had the rust-coloured lubricant. That was spoken to in the manual; it said to NOT wipe off this stuff, as it helps to provide long-term lubricant of the gun.. or, something to that effect.

Anyway, occasionally I look on my guns and see little tiny patches of something this same colour. Is that the rust you all are referring to? I always clean and oil it immediately afterward to prevent anything, but I just want to make sure I'm doing the right thing.

My Glock 19 that's a few months old now used to have the little brown specks on it after shooting. It was just the copper colored factory lubricant coming off, and it has since quit. I don't know if your other guns are Glocks also, or is there any chance they got Glock "cooties" on them?
(like rubbing up against each other in a safe?)
I haven't heard of other makes using the rust colored lube.

As a side note, prolonged contact with chlorine will rust even stainless steel.