Favorite items in your gun care box?

[wacki]

What's some of your favorite gun care items?

I don't care if it's a Otis cable for pulling patches instead of pushing them, a Montana X-Treme Cleaning Jag, a gun mat or just a plastic pill box from Walmart to keep your brushes organized in your toolbox.

 

[rcmodel]

The box itself.
I use a Plano double-sided fishing tackle box.
One side is full of all the different caliber brushes, mops, patches, jags, a bunch of pistol rods, etc. A seperate compartment for each caliber.

The other side contains all the jointed shotgun rods, extra lubes & solvents, etc.

Next to that, my favorite might be some home-made cylinder length dowel rods to fit various revolver cylinders.
Dropped in a chamber, it keeps the patch from going clear through the barrel and dropping off the jag before you can pull it back the other way.

rc

 

[docnyt]

Bore snake

 

[DoctorOfLight]

You're supposed to clean these things?

 

[alfack]

Tiptons' best gun vice. Holds things nicely for cleaning.

 

[Pyro]

Rubber bands.
They hold all the bags closed and tight so I can store all my supplies neatly and not worry about anything opening up and making a mess.

 

[JoeMal]

Q-tips...for those hard to reach places

 

[jcwit]

My set of Chapmans screwdrivers, small and compact, and worth their weight in gold when needed.

 

[bbq fan]

Prescription bottles with the labels removed is a personal favorite. This keeps everything organized by sight and description.

 

[Sheepdog1968]

Fishing tackle box.
Q tips.
A couple of metal paper clips.
Some plastic dental picks I got from midway USA.
Those individually packaged rem oil wipes.
Breakfree CLP.
Plastic cleaning brush.
Disposable gloves.
Scissors.

 

[CapnMac]

Ditto on the box. Looked long an had and wide for mine. (And I still keep an eye open)
It's a Waterloo box with three slide-out mechanic's style shelves.
Used oil-proof shop drawer liner, too, which is nice.

It really helped collect up my rag-tag batch of parts bins and the like into one neat package. So, one drawer has nothing but jags and tips and brushes. Room left over for the pistol-rods, too. Another drawer has nothing but pulls and snakes. Third drawer has all the wrenches, magazine brushes, take-down tools and the like.

Top holds solvent and patches and dome dedicated rags. Only hassle is that neither Break-free nor Gun Scrubber fit in nicely. But, I solved that by combining a melamine shelf with furniture coasters. Box fits on that with room for tall solvents.

Intend, the next time I can, to bend a bit of EMT into a loop "handle" of sorts, the better to carry full-length rods rather than a handle per se.

 

[bigfatdave]

Otis cables (make your own patches from cheapo round patches or scrap fabric)
Grease in a syringe
Solvent in a squeeze bottle with a fine tip
Canned air (no room for a compressor/receiver)
Chopsticks
Punch sets (surprisingly inexpensive!)
MrsBFD helping at the other side of the table (#1 improvement in QOL as far as gun cleaning goes!)
Brass jags instead of the silly loop on a rod and brushes, and the loop, and brushes ... the jag does a pretty good job with rough fabric alone
Little flexible-head flashlight and a fiber-optic chamber-light/flag
The union newsletter makes a GREAT absorbent table cover, way better than newspaper

 

[wacki]

Adding one more:

Spare safety flag

http://www.midwayusa.com/Search/#safety flag____-_1-2-4_8-16-32_1_16_Demand desc

(although that's kind of a range bag thing)