I use and love Boretech eliminator. I ordered some of their Cu+2 copper remover and honestly I don’t think it does any better at removing copper than the regular eliminator. I also ordered some of their C4 carbon remover and had a similar experience - neither one seems to do a better job than regular eliminator. Has any one else noticed this?
Boretech Cu+2 copper remover
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Yes. I'm not sure why the Eliminator seems to work better than the other products but suspect that it's due to the copper and carbon being in layers.
I too find Eliminator to pull lots of copper along w the carbon.
I have used carbon remover on my suppressors and it too come out blue from copper.
I have some copper remover and the only thing I use it for is swabbing brass out of the chamber body…and yes, Eliminator would prob do just fine at that.
I have Patch Out and it’s Accelerator. Don’t use it much but I do find it pulls copper better than the BT products but not as good w the carbon.
I use Eliminator almost exclusively these days.
Unless you are shooting a complete trash barrel copper is not going to be an issue. It's going to be getting hard carbon and carbon rings out. There is enough copper remover in the eliminator ( and other solvents that are much more powerful) to take care of it. In the process of a normal cleaning the copper will be stripped out without much effort.
Cu+2 is the weak sister in that product line. It pales in comparison to Sweet's or even the Patch-Out products if wanting to stay with a product with water in it.
The C4 product does work well, especially if the felt/mop/patch used can maintain contact with the problem area for 20 minutes or so.
The C4 product does work well, especially if the felt/mop/patch used can maintain contact with the problem area for 20 minutes or so.
Found exactly as Baron23 when I first started using C4/Eliminator and the Cu2/Copper Solvent. Like 6.5SH said, soaking seems to work great. I stuff soaked Eliminator patches in my muzzle brakes to clean them, let it sit overnight, super easy clean job next day no matter how gunked up they look.
