Ballistol vs Breakfree CLP EXTREME Corrosion & Gunpowder Burn Test - FateofDestinee
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This video, I'm going to confront that controversial topic within the gun community: Which cleaner is better? I'm pitting Ballistol vs. Breakfree
CLP. I don't have any bias with either product because I haven't used them before, so
I've devised a couple of simple tests to help me compare. Oh, and I'm going to set something on fire (yay burning stuff!), so this should be pretty fun. Here's my disclaimer: 1) I don't think I'm an expert, nor do I think I'm giving a complete comparison on every
point between these two products, I'm only choosing two of the elements I consider when I'm looking at a cleaner lubricant protectant for my firearms 2)
Please don't try this at home! I'm only doing these things for the sake of comparison.
Okay!
Let's get started. I'm going to use these steel hinges to simulate the steel
of a firearm (because I don't want to intentionally put my guns through this kind of wear haha).
First, I'm going to corrode them to see how well the Ballistol and Breakfree CLP remove rust. I found this neat solution off of the internet consisting of hydrogen peroxide, vinegar, and sea salt that corrodes metal in no time flat. I'm going to spray both sides of one hinge with Ballistol, and perform the same treatment to
a second hinge using Breakfree CLP. Then,
I'll take these two hinges and a third, untreated (control) hinge and place all three in my corrosion solution to see how the metal rusts. After only a couple minutes, the hinges have developed rust in varying degrees. Our control is clearly more rusted than the other two hinges. Which do you think did a better job of preventing corrosion - the Ballistol or the Breakfree CLP? My next test is the fun one: burning gunpowder! (
Again, please do not try this at home.) I'm taking two more steel hinges and covering them with some gun powder. I light the powder on both to produce torching and gun powder residue on both hinges. Then I'm going to spray down each hinge with a different product and get to scrubbing to see how effectively they remove the powder residue. After the first pass with each product, I was able to noticeably remove residue from both hinges. I applied the Ballistol and CLP to their respective hinges one more time to see if I couldn't get up any more residue. In side-by-side comparison, it seems to be that the Breakfree CLP did a more thorough job of cleaning up that gunpowder residue from the hinge. What do you think? Buy
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