Hope this is the right place for this .It's not exactly gunsmithing.
I've been trying to get my old trapdoor to shoot a good group,without much success. I've discovered I have a pretty good buildup of what must be carbon, just ahead of the chamber. I've been using
my Ed's Red on it and it hasn't helped much. I'm thinking of getting some KG-1 from Midway I've never used any of this stuff before. Does anyone have any experience with this stuff.
                                                     Thanks  Gene

try some flitz metal polish, comes in a tube. is like toothpaste will not remove any metal. but ity works.
when you think you are done polishing do it some more then clean again with your eds red.
aka
trans fluid,
acetone
mineral spirits
turpentine
irish

Among the best compounds for carbon would be IOSSO. Use it with the afore mentioned patch wrapped brush method.

With the use of a bore scope I have found solvents only clean the fouling and metal build up but they never touch the carbon build up in front of the chamber. Then I was introduced to the JBs paste and found it was the only cleaner that would remove this carbon build up. 

The gray JBs is good for cleaning up the carbon build up after you have used your metal and fouling removal solvents. The red JBs is great for polishing up newly manufactured barrels.

Dave

Carb cleaner would work but it also removes the finish on your stock plus anodized parts and can thin some bluing out as well.

MI-shooter wrote on Jun 9^th, 2009 at 12:22pm:


It most certainly will.

Try iosso bore cleaner.comes in a tube like toothpaste. Get a borebrush and wrap with large patch and apply a good amount on the patch. stroke it back and forth through the throat and then the rest of the bbl. I have also used rem40x bore cleaner to do the same thing. Just don't get the rem 40x into a trigger mechanism as it will cause excessive wear. I like to use it when fooling around with old mil surp rifles. Many of which have not been cleaned in a long time. It will remove slight rust in the barrrel, and generally just about anything else. I bought a brand new M48BO yugo mauser and the junk in that barrel was something else. Dried grease, dirt, and stuff like that. Afew trips down and back did the trick. Stuff turns black so you know its working.Frank

I'll tell you all again, "try KREEN".  It's just the very best carbon remover I've ever found, particularly for older baked on carbon. It's made by KANO LABS, the same people who make KREEN~!!