Glock Cleaning Question

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Newbie question: Just bought a Glock 17. I read the manual, but still have a question about cleaning. I'm using Breakfree CLP. After I get the slide off and pull out the barrel and recoil spring, should I just brush over all the interior surfaces (aside from inside the barrel) with a dry nylon brush, or should I spray some aerosol CLP on the interior surfaces and then brush all the surfaces? I'm worried about ending up with too much lubricant on the inside of the gun.

Thanks for your guidance!
 
what a coincidence, i just got done cleaning my glock 19 lol

just use hopp's lube to wipe off all the black crud after shooting, and use birchwood casy gun scrubber to blast crud out of the hard to get to areas.

you can hopp's lube to lube the gun too after cleaning, but i use tetra white lube for this. it's a little thicker than hopps and doesn't dissipate as quick.

hopp's #9 is what i use to clean the barrel.

and that's it, my friend :)
 
I use a dry brush to get all the crud out of the fire controls. Oil is only needed on the spots suggested in the users manual. Make sure to likewise NOT get oil into the firing pin channel, or onto the firing pin drop safety. Either could cause it to eventually gum up and slow or stop the firing pin. For what its worth, I usually go well over 500 rounds in my G-35 before I do anything more than applying more oil to keep it running. Only thing I do regularly is clean the barrel. And that is only because I have a match barrel and it gets leaded up pretty quick. In other words run it dry until you need to apply oil as per the manual and only oil what it says.
 
Dry brush (bore, too), spray and wet brush. Wipe dry with a cloth, then lube according to the manual.

I haven't used CLP in years. I clean with Hoppe's and lube with RemOil or dry graphite in cold weather, Mobil 1 in temperate, Mobil 1 grease in tropical.
 
I assume you're referring to the interior of the slide and/or the frame of the gun. Get some solvent and soak a patch with it. Using your finger, wipe it around ins there, over everything that's fouled. There's a gun cleaning set from Outer's IIRC that is only a set of plastic picks. Using this or something similar, make sure you get a solvent soaked patch in all the corners and grooves of the slide rails to make sure they're cleaned out. Some places are better served using a brush with some solvent on it. After you've wiped it all down with solvent/patch, use a clean patch and wipe it all again. This gets rid of the solvent and all the powder fouling that it broke up. After you've got all the junk out, put a drop of oil on each rail and let it run down the length of the rail by gravity. I find this is the perfect way to lube the rails. Wipe off the excess that drips at the end. Get some oil on a clean patch and wipe the outer barrel surfaces, leaving maybe a tad more on the lugs. Put a few drops inside the slide, and wipe it around to cover it all. Put the barrel back in. Wipe a little oil on the spring and guide rod, and put that back in.

Now, for the frame, do all of the above in terms of cleaning, and then apply a little bit of oil on all the metal parts of the fire controls, springs, etc. Once that's done, reassemble the two halves and you're good to go.

I never understood why people clean WITH lubricant. The old lubricant is holding debris suspended in it, and it needs to be removed. That gets accomplished with a solvent. By adding lubricant to the surface, you're just making a bigger mess, and your gun is not going to truely be clean. As long as you're careful to reapply the lubricant where it's necessary, you don't have to worry about things not getting any lubricant.
 
I use a solvent to clean everything, wipe it down with dry patches and then lube the rails with a tiny bit applied on the barrel. Done.
 
I use soap and hot water on barrel with nylon brush. I trigger group is dirty I use spray brake cleaner. Then Break Free which I blow off with air pressure. I've had my mod 17 since 1983, the first one in the store where I worked. I went from #23 on list to #1 because the boss wasn't impressed and #1 on list got turned off by boss's impression. I've only anded 3 1/2 lb connecter and extended slide stop with gripper sleeve on grip. I love that glock and have never found any reason to regret it.
BTW in 1992 ,the day I'd returned from deployment, Danny Retting of Martin B. Retting in Culver City Ca. called and ask if I would work that night on the roof of the building to protect from Rodney King Riots. He told me to just bring my sidearm and the store would furnish the long gun and ammo for liabilty reasons. 4 of us showed up for roof service and without talking to each other at all we all were carrying Glocks. Most of us were dedicated 1911 freaks and one shot on Springfields Shooting team and placed in Steel Challange that year with 1911 custom built by Springfield Armoury. Figure the odds?
 
A Glock runs just fine on minimal (but not zero) lubrication. You can just apply oil with a cotton swab on the following areas: each metal slide rail insert on the frame (there are four); the front edge of the barrel's chamber shoulder and around the muzzle end of the barrel (these are lockup surfaces); and along the center "cocking rail" on the underside of the slide. The slide internals (firing pin block plunger and channel) should be kept clean and dry. I like to clean these areas with degreaser like Gun Scrubber or brake cleaner.
 
I do a full wipe down with a "CLP" soaked patch inside and out. I also use some Q-tips and toothbrushes to get into hard-to-reach areas. After that, a second wipe down with a dry cloth to get all but a residual layer off.

Then I use grease on the rails and the connector. Oil on the barrel exterior.

Thats it, really.

Once or twice a year I take it completely apart and clean it 100%.
 
greyling22: said:
this may be bad advice, but shoot jacked ammo....
Click to expand...

Nope, not a good idea.

Try jacketed ammo instead. Much better for you and the gun.
 
Just field strip it and drop it in the silverware basket in your dishwasher. After put a drop of lube on each of the lube points as shown in the owners manual.
 
water and guns don't mix. just because some people choose to stick their glocks in the dishwasher doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

just use some birchwood casey gun scrubber to blast crud out of the small crevices.
 
Not to second guess anyone, but why would you put Gun Scrubber anywhere near a "plastic" surface on a Glock ? That stuff will deteriorate the integrity of the plastic parts pretty quickly. I use nothing but a clean dry cloth, and a dry nylon brush. Any lube that I use is no more than a drop or two on my fingertip and then I rub it on the guides. I ude a Q-Tip to lube the slide a little better.
I probably would be careful using Gun Scrubber though. Sparingly on the extreme may be the term I would give here.
 
:eek:

the new gunscrubber cans say "synthetic safe" on them. all my local gunshops in town clean their rentals with this.

i've used it on my g19 for over a year too. i even blast the little cheapy plastic guide rod assembly with it.
 
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