Bronze or Brass?

[jece]

What should I use to clean the pistol barrel with bronze or brass brush? Or should I use a nylon brush? Glock 17 and RUGER .22/.45 barrels. Thank You for any info.

 

[rcmodel]

Bronze is fine.
And way better then nylon for cleaning, unless you are using copper solvent that will eat the bronze brushes for breakfast.

rc

 

[Walkalong]

Even with using a bore solvent that is hard on brushes, I went back to bronze brushes. Nylon just doesn't work very well. I rinse the rod, brush or jag after every pass to keep everything clean I run down the barrel anyway. That will minimize the damage to the brushes and jags from solvents.

B12 Chemtool is a favorite for rinsing brushes, jags, and also rinsing out internals when disassembly is not feasible. (Or you just don't feel like it)

M-Pro 7 is a good overall gun cleaner for handgun when you completely disassemble it.

 

[skeeter_08]

http://www.hoppes.com/products/ca_tornado_brushes.html

These tornado brushes work better than anything else I've tried

 

[FullEffect1911]

http://www.hoppes.com/products/ca_tornado_brushes.html

These tornado brushes work better than anything else I've tried

careful with them. Those are for some pretty darn aggressive cleaning. Bronze won't hurt rifling, stainless could.