Polishing the feed ramp and barrel chamber - Kiss
Lonestar49,
I'm wanting to thank you from the bottom of my heart!! Your suggestion to TomKat, for the use of Flitz to polish up the feed ramp and barrel chamber in his auto,it wouldn't feed right. I picked up a Beretta 1935 .32 auto about 2 months ago, the feed ramp wasn't bad, but a Hell of a long way from smooth. I just got back from dwnstrs, took my Dremel and polished it up with Flitz, it is so smooth now, also shines like a diamond in a goats a$$. I'd been using 0000 steel wool, a long way from what it is now though. I have found more helpful hints on this web than any I've ever looked at. Lonestar49, thanks and a tip of the hat from Colorado
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You're very welcome.. TY for the generous feed back
Now, to the OP et. al. -
First, your gun clerk is nuts/crazy/incompetent, and seriously negligent, to suggest you just take the gun "as is" and just go shoot it before any "inspection/cleaning/and fresh lubrication" unless he opened it up for you and showed you it was clean and lubed and rdy to fire, if not, then let my outrage stand, OMMV, but I doubt it.
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Ref: Polishing the feed ramp and barrel chamber (not using Dremel tool) - by Keeping It Simple using the Kiss method -
Also, forgetting to mention in my post part about polishing your feed ramp and the chamber of the barrel is "easy and safe" IF you just use a Q-tip to do the light polishing on the feed ramp (in an up and down motion only) otherwise, in the same direction that that bullets slide up it, into the chamber. The polishing of the chamber of the barrel is best done with the barrel out of the gun so you can get all sides equally polished, again, with a Q-tip, both to apply and clean/polish, let stand for a few minutes, then take new, clean, Q-tip/s and remove dried polish, again, going only up and down on the feed ramp.
This easy, light, process will not harm nor change the feed ramps angle but it will make it much "smoother" and will help a lot with bullet feeding, especially JHP's.
It will last, at first, aprox 500 rounds, so on your third cleaning, re-polish it and it should re-benefit your guns feed cycling longer until another need/when and if you experience a feed issue here and there..
Otherwise: with dirty blow back action - inspect, clean, and re-lube every 200 - 300 rounds IMHO. (and if it will go 300 rounds, as mine never, nor, could do) thru 1450 rounds from NIB and with all new, good, ammo, before the call (the jams started) even with feed ramp polishing/cleaning and I sold it, getting an SA EMP 1911 9mm SAO 9+1 with much cleaner - closed breach action vs blow-back action.
The big difference being it can, and does, go 800 - 1000 flawless rounds, easy, without need of total disassembly and cleanings.. And it fits very nicely in my front left pocket in its holster for easy, quick, crossdraw, usage, if necessary. But it, too, needed the feed ramp and "very tight barrel chamber" to be polished for it to work without early FTF issues and as mentioned above, how I did it, the easy way, and when, has worked with its flawless round count now, from NIB, just over 7100 rounds.
I might add, that with the EMP's feed ramp, with barrel out of gun, after the Q-tip method, but early round count, wise, still getting a FTF here and there, my second polishing I just used a cotton gun pad and thumb pressure, very firm, up and down, only, on the feed ramp for a deeper cleaning and finer polish. Worked like a charm from that point on i.e high round counts, no FTF, and less cleaning time..
Simply put, for an extra 4 bucks (for a tube of Flitz gun Polish) that will last you a lifetime, and an extra 10 mins of cleaning time i.e the polishing, then letting it dry, then removal and final buff, will be well worth the extra investment of your time and money.
OMMV,
Luck, again
Ls