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Re: Can Used Gun Cleaning Rags Spontaneously Combust?
Petroleum based oils will not spontaneously combust. A rag soaked with them will light instantly and burn though. Lighter petroleum products that can evaporate like gasoline and paint thinner can also give fumes that can ignite with a spark or pilot light.
Linseed, Tung, and even vegetable oils can air oxidize, heat up and spontaneously burn. But it takes a pile of them under the right conditions. If I gave you some rags and some linseed oil I doubt you could make a fire if you tried. But that does not mean they won't catch fire. They do.
When I refinish a stock with linseed I always take the rags out to my fire pit and burn them. Same if I am degreasing a firearm with solvent. I usually don't bother with a few bore patches.
Not recommended but I have been lazy on occasion with a small rag soaked with some linseed oil. I made sure it was completely unfolded and placed it in the middle of a concrete floor. I dont think you can generate enough heat to combust that way (famous last words) and when you pick them up in a few days they were hard and mostly dry.
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September 18th, 2018, 05:01 PM #12
Re: Can Used Gun Cleaning Rags Spontaneously Combust?
Lately I've taken to using the blue paper shop towels as my cleaning rags. When finished they and the bore patches and q-tips go right out into the burning barrel once there any method of combustion is perfectly OK.
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".
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September 18th, 2018, 07:58 PM #13
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