Seafoam

[garyheskett All 49 x 3 st.louis]

Last Friday, I went to the annual retirement range qualification at Troop C headquarters. After the range qualification, you may clean your gun there.  This year, for the first time, they had cans of Seafoam there to be used to clean your weapon. I have never heard of using Seafoam to clean a weapon, and I don't clean my weapon there, but thought I would post this as an unusual use for Seafoam.  Who knew? 

[Jess from VA]

https://www.google.com/search?q=seafoam+to+clean+firearms%3F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Who knew?

[Tfrank59]

I didn't, not for gun cleaning, but the stuff has a number of uses you'd be just as surprised about   I bought a '91 Miata this summer and Seafoam did the best job cleaning out the fuel system for me, and I tried several other fuel additives first.

[dr.danh]

I have used seafoam on some older bikes. I did notice the motor running rougher til that tank emptied. Some had said may break loos crude, rust or so in the tank. Not sure really what causes that.

[mustang071965]

Sea Foam has been around believe it or not sence the 1920s. it started out as a Marine Engine cleaner. for getting rid of carbon in engines. then the car dealers learned of it and started using it in there injector cleaning machines. as for cleaning guns yes it does a very good job at removing carbon and cooper fouling. it is safe on firearms that have been hot blued and or parkerized. on cold blue firearms it can if used to much turn the blue to a light blue and even remove the blue on cheap weapons. but for cleaning the barrel it is great. dont get it on wood finish cause it can remove the lacure coat and on synthetic stocks it can cause the plastic to turn soft.

[ridingron]

I have used seafoam on some older bikes. I did notice the motor running rougher til that tank emptied. Some had said may break loos crude, rust or so in the tank. Not sure really what causes that.   

On a different Honda forum, we found the rougher running motor was due to " a little is good, more is better" attitude. Mix by the suggested ratio and run several tanks through. Should be kinda quick on the Valk. The ST is a ~300 mile tank bike (7.4 gal. @40 mpg).