S@#T happens

[Nuclearcricket]

Gentlemen, and ladies if there are some here. There had been a recent discussion on here about an incident on a range. One of those things that happen when you don't think about things. Well today I had one of those little incidents at home that, well you just don't think about till it happens.
As a little preface, let me start out by saying I have 3 rifles here that #1, I don't know when they were shot last, #2, I don't know when they were cleaned last, and #3 I have no idea if or where I could get ammunition for them, 8x50 or 8x52r.
Now that being said, I did NOT have an AD but did have an accident. I have over the past few days been working on cleaning them. Getting some of the grease out of them and trying to clean up the bores. The first wasn't too bad, grease came off and out, bore is not great but shootable. This one is the oldest, still the origional 8x50. Second one a little more work, bore better with good rifling but some roughness in the first few inches of the bore, rest pretty good. #3 has a really nice bore but it is tight and I think it has either dried grease or maybe some carbon and is hard to get a tight patch through.
Now for the incident. I opened a jar of bore cleaner, wet the patch and proceeded to push it through the bore with the rifle setting on an Otters Varmet rest. Things stuck, then moved and that glass jar found the cement floor. It didn't survive.
Fortunately for me, I had a shop vac full of wood dust and chips. That helped a lot in the clean up of the nasty mess I made. I write it off to just something you really don't think about happening.
My words of wisdom to come of all of this, it may be prudent of each and every one of us to either keep a gallon zip lock bag of sawdust handy at our cleaning station or maybe invest in a cheap container of kitty little to soak up a nasty spill.
I hope this never happens to anyone else, but if it does, maybe my experience will help someone out.
Sam

[Kurt]

Sam.

I think we all have done this.

I have a friend that had a fire start from spontaneous combustion in his small tin waste basket that the dirty cleaning patches fall into when he cleans his guns. He was lucky that the fire stayed low and burned out in the can.
But the house was full of smoke when got home from work.

[Nuclearcricket]

Now that is something I have never given a thought to. Do you know what solvent he was using? I have been using Balistol and don't know if that poses a danger or not, but Thursday is trash day and I think my shop trash bag will leave with the garbage man just to be safe.
Sam

[Kurt]

Yes I asked him that. He said he had a rifle the stock was getting to dark and he wanted to steam out a few dents and he used turpentine and linseed oil and dropped them in his patch can the night before.
I been using a rag bucket with a lid since he told me this.

[Lumpy Grits]

Kitty litter or dry rice work well also.
Gary