Posted on 10/11/2012 2:56:24 PM PDT by Randy Larsen
Ditto Ballistol. Hickok 45 videos on YouTube are top notch viewing.
For removing copper fouling, there’s a foaming cleaner, “Outers” to the best of my recollection.
Had a can, used it up, and couldn’t find it again.
Better than Gunslick, but Gunslick is also fairly good.
I use chunks of deceased Islamonazi beards as cleaning wads.
GUNKOUT! It’s expensive but I’ve yet to find a better solvent!
<< I’m looking into M-PRO-7...Has anyone tried it? >>
It’s the only thing I use. The smell from Hoppes and all the other solvents affects me physically (in a bad way).
Been using MP Pro for years. Water based. Cleans great (better than Hoppes in my opinion). No residue. Minimal smell (still need to work in well-venilated area).
LOL
You got it!
Hoppes #9. Sometimes RemOil. Johnson’s paste wax on blued guns.
Yes
It is traumatic
Yep
:A man has to know his limitations.
That one is mine
LOL
I tried Hoppes #9 for aftershave. Found myself surrounded by a bunch of fat, bearded guys. Went back to soap & a double edge razor, followed by water...
All of my ex-wives loved the smell of Hoppes.
/johnny
I use Hoppes #9 on the bore and then Breakfree CLP on the bore and bolt.
I use Ezzox on the finish.
Bench Rest-9 Copper Solvent for bores fouled by copper jackets, usually longer barrels with fast twist rates.
Gunslick Foaming Bore Cleaner for typical cleaning. I also usually smooth a light coating of this stuff over the external receiver and then let it sit. This stuff is a soap as much as it is a solvent.
After the bore cleaners/solvent soak for awhile according to manufacturer instructions, I blast the stripped barreled receiver with high pressure hot water in the laundry room tub, using water at max temp for a long enough time so that the water is almost completely dried off by the metal's surface temperature. The water is very hot here as the water heater is just a few feet away, so I use kitchen gloves.
I then use a Hoppes® BoreSnake the bore several times, run a dry clean patch down the bore to confirm its clean, and then lube one last patch sopping wet with MP Pro 7 gun oil and push it down the bore twice.
I spot dry the remaining water with compressed air out of the nooks and crannies, and then depending on the firearm finish:
I then lubricate the internal parts with MP-Pro 7 or BreakFree® out of the pressurized spray can and reassemble after towel/air drying the small parts that have been soaking. Pistol slides get greased with 'Slide Glide' or Weapon Shield grease, whichever I happen to have in my cleaning box.
Polished stainless steel finishes sometimes get re-polished after cleaning with 'Mothers® Metal Polish Mag and Aluminum' using a microfiber terrycloth towel to apply and remove. Nothing in the world beats Mother's for high bright shine on polished smooth stainless steel surfaces.
Lastly, I use a dry clean lint free cloth to remove excess lubricant. The blue steel guns that I don't fire too often, I leave the Barricade on pretty wet and store everything back in the safe with the barrel in an upright position.
I don't have many guns with classic wood furniture, but for those that do I use a more traditional cleaning method rather than the solvent + pressurized hot water treatment I normally use.
Glocks = dishwasher
LOL!
I first clean with WD-40. Then after I am done, I place the firearm in the hot sun to make it warm, and heat a jar of Petroleum jelly which I then smear all over the metal and down the bore.
Never had rust and when I finally dredge mine up from the deep corner of the lake, where I had my boating accident, I am sure it will still be clean and workable.
For corrosive primers and black powder I first clean with soap and water through the bore, then WD-40 followed by petroleum jelly.
***The PIG FAT is transferred to anything the BULLETS STRIKE.***
In the book TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST a sailor tells the author to keep his knife in a sheath of fresh pig skin. That way it will never rust.
You know I don’t trust dishwashers.
I just hose it out and leave it in the sun for a couple hours.
It’s a Glock, it don’t care.
I got a GLOCK 19. I open the slide and put in on the bottom rack of the dishwasher. Works fine.
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