I got my Henry Ball #69 out today and absolutely scrubbed the crap out of it from one end to the other. I used Hoppe's #9 first and then used the Brownell's Sabot Solvent. It occured to me that the sabot solvent should, well, dissolve sabots! :idea: So I put some of the sabot solvent in a Mason jar and put in a MMP .458/.50 sabot and a Harvester .50 long sabot, both current formulations.
I took both of them out at 2 minutes and checked them. They looked and felt good as new so I put them back in to soak some more. I re-checked them at 10 minutes. Both sabots again looked and felt as good as new. I thought to myself well here goes...I left them in the solvent for a TOTAL TIME of THREE HOURS! I took the sabots out and observed them both...AGAIN...BOTH SABOTS APPEARED to be good as NEW!
Conclusion... :?:
Current formulation sabots are TOUGH. A sabot solvent needs to be tough as WELL! The Brownell's #083-000-011 Sabot Solvent appears to disolve powder residue well but absolutely DOESN'T do the one thing it is ADVERTISED to do and that is dissolve sabots. :huh?:
Not recommended..
I took both of them out at 2 minutes and checked them. They looked and felt good as new so I put them back in to soak some more. I re-checked them at 10 minutes. Both sabots again looked and felt as good as new. I thought to myself well here goes...I left them in the solvent for a TOTAL TIME of THREE HOURS! I took the sabots out and observed them both...AGAIN...BOTH SABOTS APPEARED to be good as NEW!
Conclusion... :?:
Current formulation sabots are TOUGH. A sabot solvent needs to be tough as WELL! The Brownell's #083-000-011 Sabot Solvent appears to disolve powder residue well but absolutely DOESN'T do the one thing it is ADVERTISED to do and that is dissolve sabots. :huh?:
Not recommended..