I've seen several times that one shouldn't use petroleum distillates but this thread recommends the use of Goo Gone. Goo Gone, according to the back label, contains petroleum distillates. Am I missing something?On the other hand, if it works then it works. Making sure the barrel is cleaned out with plenty of dry patches should get almost all of it.
Regarding the use of monofilament, yes it will put grooves in chrome at least. My chrome plated steel fishing rod guides ended up with grooves in them after a few years so I changed to the ceramic guides.
For cleaning barrels I use Glide dental floss. As far as I can tell it's unwaxed and I've heard it has a PTFE (Teflon) coating. Seems like a winner for this purpose.
Monofilament should not put grooves in chrome steel.
Quote from: DOKF on September 20, 2016, 01:47:11 PMMonofilament should not put grooves in chrome steel.And yet it's well known that it does put grooves in chrome plated steel guides. After hearing of the problem on multiple fishing shows years ago I replaced the rod with the badly grooved steel guides with a rod with ceramic guides.
You guys might want to start a new thread about using fishing line so this one doesn't get cluttered up.