Cleaning Techniques General

>>33352415
sometimes I spray a little Purple Power on a microfiber towel and wipe my slide. it works

>>33352415
I use coolant from cnc machine. It's rust inhibiting and easy to get off. It has some bacteria in it so don't touch it with open wounds on your hand.

>>33352462
>It has some bacteria in it so don't touch it with open wounds on your hand.

foreal???

>>33352481
You aren't supposed to

>left my nugget in the closet for a year and a half
>pull it out to go shooting
>rust everywhere in the bore even though I cleaned and oiled
Fuck me, I've been running hoppes patches through it all day and it looks a hundred times better but still worse than when I bought it.

WD-40, toothbrush, compressed air, gets anything no matter how fouled clean in like a minute flat.

With the compressed air and a rag, it's now clean and dry. At this point I put nylon brushes and whatever bore cleaner I have on hand though the barrel, then wipe/blow off dry and clean.

Reassemble, oil, and compressed air to get the oil everywhere it needs to go. Wipe excess.

Any gun, no matter how dirty, it'll be cleaner than out of the factory quick and cheap. When you end up cleaning other people's guns and three dozen of your own, you pretty much end up doing this.

I actually just did my Marlin 795 this way, because I hadn't cleaned it in years and tens of thousands of rounds. Pretty much had two full ounces of fouling paste and all matters of debris out of the gun, and it was still quick and easy.

>>33352415
Alternating dry/wet with hoppes patches until they come out clean. Then switch to jb non embedding bore compound, more patches. Then a final wet patch, let soak overnight, the come back and put some dry patches through. Finally, some barricade anti rust stuff. Doesn't take as long as it sounds

>>33352415

Don't let that shit sit on your hands too long, i got a nice chem burn from engine degreaser.

Used M-Pro7 and a bronze brush on my Auto-5's receiver that wasn't in the best shape and it came out like a fucking miracle.

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>>33352885
is it possible to run a clean patch through a nugget?

>>33352415
Tbh I just spray down parts with ballistol, go have a snack and then wipe them and reassemble. Ballistol sprayed down the barrel, and then run a bore snake through it.

>>33352953
I had a laugh, thanks Anon.

>>33352415
1. Appy cleaner, scrub parts with toothbrush.
2. Rinse with brake cleaner, wipe off any condensation.
3. Repeat step 1 and 2 if necessary.
4. Apply oil and wipe off excess.

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New to this gun shit

I just bought an FN-49 and it has all this corrosion around the trigger and safety. It doesn't interfere with the operation of the gun but it makes the safety a bitch to engage. Any tips on cleaning it?

>>33352995
That looks like dried cosmoline, but in either case see how well a toothbrush with oil does. You may want to try fine steel wool, with oil of course.

>>33352995
oil, nylon brushes, and tooth picks

>>33352462
That thick white lubricant? I could see how that'd work.

>>33352995
>>33353033

use copper wool not steel, unless you want it to look like dogshit.

>>33353051
Steel wool works in a pinch, you use it lightly with oil and it defeats light corrosion. I had a friend who used SAND PAPER to get the rust off his shotgun barrel, along with the finish. "But I got rid of the rust."

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how do I polish this bolt?

>>33353189
polishing wheel

>>33352462
>It's real
Christ, I know a guy that literally lives in an office with his machine.

>>33353189
FLITZ

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>>33353189

buffing tool + compound.

HOW 2 KLEN
TAKE GUN
PUT GUHN IN SINK
POT SOAP ON GAN
CLEAN LIEK DISHES
RINSE
DONE

>why do you fucking retards think it's any more complicated than cleaning anything else? Stop being dumb.

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>>33352953
>>33352971
no like

given an infinite amount of time, bore cleaner and patches could you eventually pull out a white one?

>>33353358
DO NOT do this to a Glock. Something about the polymer and hot water specifically equals a problem.

this is my deepest concern, that I'm cleaning wrong.

I CLP all parts to be cleaned

Toothbrush them

CLP barrel and run a bore brush through it and then push through patches until they return clean

Then I rub grease on all moving parts and reassemble.

Am I good? I do this with an AK74, a KelTec P32, and an RIA 1911.

>>33353423
Yeah you're not doing anything wrong.

>>33353423
I wouldn't grease the lel tec, seems like jam worthy thing.

>>33353407
I think so. With Wipe-Out bore cleaner, I bet I could get nugget bores clean in an hour.

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>>33353473
You underestimate the nugget bore

I too once believed it to be possible within a reasonable amount of time.

>>33353489
You underestimate Wipe Out.

Shit's magical.

>>33352415
Silicone spray you get from Lowes. It removes rust, prevents rust, and dries on the metal creating a super thin barrier against oxygen, sweat, and water. Mechanics have been using that shit for years to keep their tools from rusting to pieces. You have to completely clean your gun of all oil before you do it though, or you end up with spotting all over where you can see the film of silicone. It also lubricates.

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>>33353501
is it really that good?

I'm almost out of hoppes because of some kind of magical diffusion where half the bottle just seeped out through the plastic

>>33353473
>>33353501
This sounds like marketing. Good lord.

>>33353533
It's pretty fucking good. I have a 300 Win Mag that was getting fouled pretty seriously since I hadn't run a brush through it in 500 rounds or so. Squirted a load of foam into it, waited 20 minutes like the instructions said, two dry patches, and it was perfectly clean. Like fucking surgically clean. No brushing, no bullshit, no exaggeration.

I've used it in other situations and it's always been painless like no other solvent. I'm pretty sure it could get a nugget clean without much trouble.

Just keep it away from the wood. Shit goes through wood finishes like xenomorph blood through hicks' face.

>>33353533
Thats happened to me too. I Use a glass bottle now.

As for cleaning, get a package of water balloons. Fill up water balloons. Throw them around with friends and/or family. Take filler nozzle. Put into rifle chamber. Flush out corrosive salts. No wet chamber to worry about now because precision nozzle for cheap.

>>33352953
>buy nugget
>put a patch down the barrel
>black
>4 hours later
>bore looks better but still getting dirty patches

Now I just put a few patches though and cal it good.

one that happened today
>buy M38 nugget
>bolt is like butter
>take it shooting
>fuck yeah so smooth
>clean rifle
>fuck it, I'm going to clean the bolt too
>bolt is now crunchy
Fack

>>33352809
w-why does it have bacteria in it...? is that on purpose or something...?

I use Hornady one shot, hoppes, Mobil 1 5w-30 full synthetic and Mobil 1 red grease.

Toothbrushes, cleaning rods, toothpicks, cotton swabs and old t-shirts.

Fine steel wool will generally remove rust and doesn't seem to mess up finish if applied with oil.

Just disassemble and wipe clean what you can, scrub what you can't and oil afterwards. It's not that hard. Remember to leave a little bit of oil on all metal parts. Especially if you are in a humid environment. I can usually get the right amount of oil buy just wiping down my gun with the back of the rag I cleaned it with.

>>33353637
Idk I'm just an operator. My boss just tells me to wear gloves if I'm cleaning out the coolant tanks withcuts on my hands. And working in a machine shop guarantees you have cuts on your hands at all times.

>>33353189

Your anus.

You faggots really want to clean your nugget/old rifle bores so the bores come out with a white patch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMk7jz2AWj8

>>33353777
Sentences

>>33353637
FUN FACT: diesel fuel often has algae/bacteria in it.

I just use bad dragon cum lube.

>>33353189
dremmel with buffing wheel and flitz or mothers polishing compound.

>>33353777
>doesn't show any results
yeah right

>>33353795
>description

>>33353822
Fun fact most oil and gas pipelines have bacteria that will eat the damn pipe. It's called Microbial corrosion, also called bacterial corrosion. caused or promoted by microorganisms, usually chemoautotrophs. It can apply to both metals and non-metallic materials. Some sulfate-reducing bacteria produce hydrogen sulfide, which can cause sulfide stress cracking. Acidithiobacillus bacteria produce sulfuric acid.

>>33353577
> With Wipe-Out Bore Cleaner™ , I bet I could get nugget bores clean in an hour! Purchase some today from your local retailer!

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Hey, so what ever happened to Nathan last night? Did the /k/ommando who was going to visit him ever follow up?

Ruger Redhawk having years of copper fouling being removed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVKp0h9no3o

here is a result video of removing rust and bore fouling:
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDM69iNaI_8
Part 2 results
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzL5GIEtq9k

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Soap and hot water in a bucket, then I hit the hot spots with some grease or clp depending on the component.

>works great
>lasts long time

>>33353959
>Doxxed on the gayest board on 4choon
Poor bastard. Good taste in meal supplements, tho. He'll need those 400kcals for the heavily armed mlp rape squad coming for his booty.

Ballistol goes in all fields.

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If you're going to use stuff like brake cleaner make sure it's non-chlorinated otherwise it may damage some polymers.

Best solvent is one you can make at home gallons of for chump change.

One part synthetic ATF
One part acetone
One part mineral spirits

No it's not a recipe for a chemical weapon - google Ed's Red - it's been an old fart trick for decades.

>>33352415
so basically for any firearm, when you want to clean it all you have to do is throw some D's on that bitch.

>>33353822
>>33353941

jesus christ reality is terrifying

back to the basement for me

>>33352415
>boy I sure wanted my gun to rust like a son of a bitch

>>33352885
you have to run a few patches with water on them through it to dissolve the salts

>>33354254
or just get Hoppes 9 and use a $2 bottle for a year instead of spending $20+ on shit you're going to have to leave around in your house

>b-but muh cost per ounce

Yeah whatever faggot

>>33353416
>don't wash Tupperware in the sink
>>>/HomeEc/
Get learned.

>>33355525
wut?

>>33355555
Checked

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>>33355505

You can get one quart jars of all three ingredients leaving no left over ingredients. No reason to be such a defensive bitch boy.

The provided formula also acts as a more effective substitute to WD40.

>>33353637
Because it sits in there forever, gets re-used over and over, and so bacteria grows in it.

Smells like fish.

>>33353941
stupid nature, am I gonna have to give my car antibiotics one day?

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>>33355604

1. Your car should be running synthetic fluids anyways.
2. Operating temperatures should kill anything in there.

>>33355618
What about the fuel tank? That's relatively isolated.

>>33355624
Put mothballs in and drive around. The balls absorb the bacteria.

What do you guys do to clean a gun after shooting?

Here's my routine:
>apply (Hoppes no9 via patch) or spray (ballistol) cleaning fluid down barrel
>Wait 20 minutes
>Wet bronze brush with cleaning fluid, send down barrel in direction bullet travelled (breech to muzzle)
>Run patches down barrel in same breech to barrel direction (alternate wet and dry) until clean

Am I doing it right? I do this after every range trip to anything I shoot.
Also what cleaning fluid do you guys use? I like Hoppes no 9 since it gets most shit off but I;ve been told it's bad for some rifles. I know in particular it will remove the finish off some milsurp guns. I've tried ballistol but it is far less effective than Hoppes.

>>33355633
but it also clogs the fuel line right?

>>33353596
Lube it up.

I took cleaning my nugget bore to the extreme, I used a 410 brass brush on a cleaning rod chucked in a drill with tons of oil, same way I helped a friend clean his bore of rust when he left it sit in a storage unit for 2 month after a long range day without cleaning it.

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>>33355486
wat

>>33352916
Seemed less intense than brake cleaner tbqhsmhfam

OP here, let the guts dry overnight, seems to work well enough, good to know I didn't waste $6 on the three cans of this stuff

Right now my regular is

Breakthrough Military Grade solvent + CLP

I got a little spray bottle of Ballistol to try it out. I like how it smells like it's made from natural stuff but it left my gun feeling like I just rubbed it in burger grease. I think I'll stick to the Breakthrough + CLP routine. Honestly I am somewhat new and I don't shoot my guns enough to really know which cleaner + Lubricant best protects from corrosion. I clean my guns pretty much every time I shoot them, or with my glock every other time, and it works.

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>>33355604
But you will probably having to run a antivirus on your CarOS in a decade or so...

I can't come into work today my car caught a virus.

>>33357652
That is the single most retarded post I have ever read on this board.

>>33357687
you need to hang around longer then, that one is easy to top

>>33357652
No Seriously I work in IT and they are already working on it. The connected car concept has major draw backs in term of security. Tesla has Easter eggs in their cars and they update them. Someone out there folks are already working on hacking your car. You might have the AV done by your auto mechanic as part of your servicing but it will be there the way it is trending.

Does anyone use m-pro 7 gun cleaner?
I got a 4oz bottle with my purchase from the LGS and I dunno if it's any good, just as a cleaner. I have Hornady 1-shot hd-extreme as a lube and protectant.

>>33353407
I eventually did it once with my sks but I think I spent more time running patches through the barrel than I did shooting it that day

>>33353959
The thread 404'd, probably deleted by a mod or something.

>>33352885
>be me
>own $50 nugger
>clean it by blasting out deposits with more >7.62R
>Is good