WriteON
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PSI 30 cal bolt. Blank is acrylic. Owner wants to know what solvent can use be used to clean inside the barrel with without harming any finishes. I'd gladly mail him a replacement. It was a gift. Thanks
If I recall correctly hand sanitizers have as a chief ingredient either IPA or DNA, followed by some type of emulisifier, with main ingredient most likely water - yep that'll work.I have cleaned out a number of pens using hand sanitizer.
As I stated when I joined IAP several weeks back, I had been away from turning pens for several years. All my equipment and finished pens were packed away. As I began unpacking, I noticed every pen which contained an off-shore Parker-type refill had "exploded" - not literally but figuratively - within the pen, filling the barrel with what was now a tar-like ink mess. As it turns out, the black plastic cap joined to the refill tube, opposite from ball, had totally or partially separated from the metal refill tube, spilling ink out all over the place. Paper towels, q-tips, rags, all soaked in 91% iso-propyl alcohol eventually did the job. I'm not too sure of the shelf life of these cheap refill.