gun cleaning: bore brush question

[tazmajazz]

hi all, I just bought a gun cleaning kit recently and have a question about the bore brush. I hope I'm posting this in the correct section, this doesnt specifically pertain to any type of gun, it is just a general question about bore cleaning.

please excuse my lack of knowledge, I am new to cleaning guns.

the bore brush fits on a rod with a handle, and it seems that the brush should rotate while in the bore automatically because the rod spins freely within the handle. Is the rifling supposed to cause the brush to rotate automatically, or are you supposed to turn the brush while in the bore, or not turn it at all?

thanks in advance for the help.

taz

 

[RNB65]

Just push is thru with the handle. The rifling will rotate the brush.
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[tazmajazz]

thanks for the reply, after I push the brush through the bore, do I pull the brush back through and expect that the rifling will rotate the brush in the oposite direction?

also, I was told that a .38, .357, and 9mm are all the same diameter, should the same brush work for all three?

I just want to be sure that I do not damage a gun when cleaning, thanks again.

taz

 

[marcodo]

push the brush all the way through...ie don't stop halfway and try pulling it out.

the 38/357/9 are the same brush size

 

[JohnBT]

Free unsolicited advice: don't dip the dirty brush in the bottle of cleaning fluid. Pour a little in the cap or in a small dish or cup and you'll keep the bottle uncontaminated. (I dipped for years and it didn't really hurt anything, but still.)

And if you use one of the extremely high-strength copper dissolving cleaning fluids it will eat the metal brush and you'll be putting as much copper in the barrel as you're taking out and you'll go crazy trying to get the barrel clean. Over and over again you'll brush like crazy and the next patch will come out dirty. They make nylon brushes for the copper dissolving stuff.

Don't brush like crazy. Rubbing the cleaning rod on the barrel causes bad things to happen if you do it long enough.

JT

 

[ocabj]

I use disposable pipettes for applying solvents from a bottle to the patch or brush. Most of the laboratory quality ones are solvent resistant.