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Cleaning Guns

Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
Cleaning a used Glock 42 before I put it out and I've got a ton of different chemicals here to use. I get free samples and I try to stay on top of the latest and greatest but I still find myself picking up the old Hoppe's no9. It's been around forever and I'm sure if there's a test I have at least trace amounts in my blood but it works as well as anything I know. If I have heavy copper deposits I will use something stronger but for everyday handgun cleaning I haven't found anything to beat it. I take great comfort that some things remain the same. Must be an old man thing.[:)][:)]
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    We run about sixty rental guns here for our range and that means a lot of cleaning. I usually have my guys do it during down time but sometimes I grab one and if it's just one I don't mind and find it almost therapeutic. This year I replaced the Desert Eagle .50AE with a stainless .44 magnum and tonight I noticed the safeties were loose so went ahead and tore it all the way down for a good cleaning. Well it took over an hour before I finished scraping all the carbon off this monster. Customers like to rent them but maintenance is a pain.
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    [8D]We talk about "gun safes" and rust , about "golden rods" and rust inhibits, but we NEED to " monthly ,clean FONDLE those firearms-right??A Firearm should never rust from lack of attention! RIGHT???They're not close to a good looking Blond, but who's to measure.?[}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)]

    On your mark-get set- go away!!
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have seen that several people on here clean their guns diffently. I am going to list the steps that I take to clean mine and let you guys critique it. Please feel free to add anything else that I need to do or not do

    1. Dry brush through the barrel to lossen fouling
    2. Wet patch soaked in Hoppes BR copper remover
    3. dry patch
    4. repeat steps 2-3 until patch comes out mostly clean
    5. wet patch with the same cleaner as step2 and leave in over night
    6. Next day run antoher wet patch through followed by a series of dry patches.
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  • wiplashwiplash Member Posts: 7,145 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe you could Hire on a helper to clean the Guns with the pay being, every 10 guns you clean, you get a box of shells to shoot, your choice of the Gun![;)]
    There is no such thing as Liberal Men, only Liberal Women with Penises.'
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,367 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    this is just a off the wall thought would a large ultrasonic cleaner do the job for you , remove the wood if needed . toss them in ? or am I totally off base for the handguns
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    Just rent out glocks, they don't need cleaning.

    [:)]
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by GuvamintCheese
    Just rent out glocks, they don't need cleaning.[:)]


    Yeah, just replace them when the blow up.[8D]
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    quote:Originally posted by GuvamintCheese
    Just rent out glocks, they don't need cleaning.[:)]


    Yeah, just replace them when the blow up.[8D]


    They need to be stored in a Liberty safe so they don't hurt someone when they explode. [:o)]
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    If I had a range that rented handguns, I would most definitely invest in an ultrasonic tank big enough to handle them, and mix up a batch of Ed's Red minus the acetone. Take off the grips, put in the bath, run it a few cycles, dry with compressed air. Lube as needed.

    The idea of cleaning 60 rental guns is vile.
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Are you volunteering whiplash??[:D] We had an ultrasonic cleaner but I just didn't like it. The other thing is OSHA. If you're running a shooting range in the United States OSHA has become a big part of your business and I don't want to start blowing solvent around in here. Also with a piston gun like Desert Eagle there is so much cooked on carbon around the piston area that has to be scrapped off. I soak the piston in Slip 2000 Carbon Killer and that does a great job but you still have to scrape off the deposits on the frame and slide. We rent about a dozen revolvers and I usually enjoy cleaning them. About every 1000 rounds I take the 1911's all the way down to the bare frame but they get field stripped and cleaned every couple of hundred. The Glocks, plastic Walthers and Springfields and H&K's get cleaned when we get around to it. We have a Colt 9mm AR15 that has tens of thousands of rounds through it and we clean it every couple of months and when we do it is DIRTY!! but it just keeps on ticking. The FN Scar .223 and PS90 5.7x28 also run great with very little attention as does the Kriss Vector .45acp carbine. One thing about running a range is you get to know quickly what works and what doesn't. Overall most of the stuff on the market today is pretty good. A lot of the problems we see are shooter induced. "But I read it on the internet" Hey, it's all good and it sure beats having a real job. Ricci.[:D][:D]
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    For an industrial size ultrasonic you can quickly find yourself having to design a room around it. With filtered ventilation, spill control, fire suppression, it gets nuts. Worth it on an industrial scale. Don't know if that'd go to 60 guns once a week though.
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  • Ray BRay B Member Posts: 11,822
    edited November -1
    Back in the day I'd take my Model 66 apart, put the pieces in mesh bags and run them through the dishwasher. But with the amount of carbon/fouling you'd have builtup they might need something stronger.
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  • anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Be real glad that you are not renting out muzzle loaders ... cleaning after black Powder is a JOB!
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  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    " cleaning some pistols?...I really feel your pain". NOT!!


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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by andersk
    Be real glad that you are not renting out muzzle loaders ... cleaning after black Powder is a JOB!

    Only if you don't know what you're doing. I am in the North-South Skirmish Association, and between practice and competition fire about 5000 rounds out of muzzleloaders and percussion breechloaders per year.

    You get a good lube and proper bullet fit, it cleans up as fast as a smokeless gun. Faster, in that you don't have to scrub out fouling of metal. For my rifled musket, cleaning consists of about 3-4 wet patches, breechplug scraping, remove nipple and spend about 2-3 minutes with Q tips in the flash channel and the nipple, reassemble, oil and done. 5 minutes total.

    I DO strongly encourage the OP to try mixing Ed's red. It's gonna beat the snot out of any commercial mumbo jumbo carbon cleaner at a quarter the cost.
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  • GemJediGemJedi Member Posts: 120 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree it is therapeutic. I enjoy cleaning my guns when back from the range so they can be put away clean and shiny. I am led to believe I am a little obsessive compulsive about it. Nothing shoots straighter than a good looking clean gun imho.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    I had a Hawken .54.cal replica and shot the snot out of it.About every 10-12 rounds,I shot a "cleaner slug" then ran a oil patch.
    At the end of the day,I took the nipple that I swapped for a "209" SG primer.(way better'n a fulminated Mercury cap, in my experience)
    Brought it home and filled the bath tub about 1/3 full of as hot of water I could stand to put my hands in and scrubbed the bore with dawn dish soap till the rinse water ran clear...One last 5 min dip in SCALDING water to warm up the bbl steel.
    Stand it in a corner with a rag to catch the drips.
    By the time it was dry all it needed was some lube and reassembled.
    That .54 cal 550 Gr. bullet would flip a 200# buck slap over!!! DRT 9 of 10 times.If it ran,it was like following red lines down a sidewalk.NEVER had one go more'n 20 or so yds.
    That .54 lowers the deers BP to ZERO really really FAST!!![^]
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  • evileye fleagalevileye fleagal Member Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i cant believe no one has suggested the drill method, so far. ya'll are slippn
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