Sometimes simplicity rules the day:
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Erasing Lead. Back almost a quarter century ago, I was cleaning guns with IPSC shooter Ted Hunt. I was whining about how the lead deposits weren't coming off my beautiful blued steel. "Hey," smiled Ted, "it's lead, isn't it? Why don't you just take an eraser and erase it?"
I was about to come back with some smart crack about lead pencils actually being made out of graphite when Ted whipped out an ordinary eraser and proceeded to -- yes -- erase the lead stains from the slide of my Colt .45. I shut up just in time, and have been erasing stubborn lead deposits since. No, it isn't a Lewis Lead Remover, but it costs 69 cents and it gets the lead off.
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