Spilled some Hoppes #9

[setsdw]

Yeah I just spilled 3/4 of a bottle of Hoppes #9 on my tile floor. I've got the fan running venting the room but is there anything that I can use to clean the floor? It's slick as snot and getting in the grout.

[Oh Shoot]

Well it has kerosene and probably other petroleum stuff in it...

I'd try some sudsy dishwashing soap solution, since it eats grease.

(the sink washing kind, not the auto dishwasher stuff)

Try it on one little section first, make sure it doesn't make it worse or something.

- OS

[Guest Ae-35]

Alcohol , maybe you know the rubb'n type.

[frankmako]

alcohol will work. or some disk washing stuff.

[gsbell]

If you are married, you are toast.

[setsdw]

Followed your advice and used some hot soapy water and that did the trick. The room is still slightly pungent but that should clear out by the morning. Guess I'm headed back to the store for another bottle though. I just bought it this afternoon. It was practically full.

Yeah I'm married and at this point she just rolls her eyes at me. She's been with me long enough to be used to this type of stuff.

[Guest Bronker]

Quick, grab all of your guns, field strip them, and roll them around on the floor for a couple of hours!

Then go pick up some flowers for your significant other. You're gonna need them.

That stuff is putrid, especially in large quantities.

[Armed Aviator]

Freon works great! Oh, wait, you can't use that any more. The big bad EPA will get ya. When I was in the Air Force, we used Freon for cleaning all sorts of oil spills.

[Oh Shoot]

Followed your advice and used some hot soapy water and that did the trick. ..

Good, figgered it would. Didn't see much need in eradicating a flammable volatile liquid with another, like alcohol.

- OS

[lowbud]

My wife rolls her eyes every time I get the cleaning stuff out. i can't imagine what would happen if I spilled that stuff on the floor.

[setsdw]

I soaked as much as I could up onto a few old tshirt rags and sat them down. She immediently picked them up and sat them outside. I knew better than to get mad and tell her that I was about to wring them out to save the Hoppes!

[Alpha7]

Hydrocloric acid if you can get any always worked well on the tile floors when I worked in fast food back in the day.

[LagerHead]

Hydrocloric acid if you can get any always worked well on the tile floors when I worked in fast food back in the day.

Yea, but won't it eat your face off?

[seez52]

Opening a new bottle of #9 is kinda like getting the hot glue gun out. You might as well just go ahead and squirt some glue directly on a couple of your fingers, they're going to get burned before you're done-- at least that way you won't be surprised when it happens!! ----- it's a new bottle, it's gonna turn over on ya.

[setsdw]

What i did was stick the patch into it while it was on the end of the cleaning rod. When I picked up the rod the patch grabbed the lip and over it went. Nothing I could do at that point.

[Alpha7]

Yea, but won't it eat your face off?

Only if you spill it on your face.

[Mike.357]

I knocked one over once, pretty much the way you describe.

Made a mess and stunk.

I stick to safer dispensors now.

[Guest clsutton21]

Yea, but won't it eat your face off?

depends on the molarity

[Guest Bronker]

depends on the molarity

Yeah, baby!

[Chucktshoes]

Does the fact that I enjoy the smell of Hoppes #9 make me a total weirdo? Of course I also enjoy the smell of diesel and small engine exhaust too, guess that comes from being a small engine mechanic at one time.

[lowbud]

I didn't mind the stinch until a bottle leaked in my office closet. Now I can't stand it. I smellled that crap for weeks.

[seez52]

I just love the smell of Hoppies in the morning.

[Luckyforward]

You know how a smell triggers a memory? The smell of Hoppe's reminds me of my earliest hunting trips with my dad because it was my job to clean the shotguns when we came home . . .

[Guest USMarine7564]

Prell Shampoo. If you can find it, and have another problem in the future, use prell. Absolutely cuts grease and oil and is safe.

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[Guest 70below]

Just be happy you didn't douse your carpet.......I still have a stain on my off white carpet from dumpin half a bottle on it.

I love the smell of the stuff though, I keep hoping they come out with a body wash or deodorant.