HELP: Cylinder cleaning

[camacho]

Hi Folks,

Did about 75 rounds at the range last night with my brand new SP101. Brought it home and as a good boy as I am started cleaning it. The barrel and chambers were not a big deal, ran a brush, ran few patches, came out pretty clean. However, the face of the cylinder and barrel part that touches it were a royal pain in the butt to clean and they are stilll not compeletely clean as far as I am concerned. Can you folks share any secrets on an efficient way to clean those parts of the revolver? I used the barrel bronze brush (since I do not have a just a regular bronze brush) and the CLP from Breakfree.


Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

 

[45Badger]

I soak it in Hoppes, scrub with toothbrush. Gets most off, what's left adds character

 

[antediluvianist]

Take the cylinder off, soak it in Hoppes or kerosene or some other solvent for a couple of hours, scrub with toothbrush with indicated "HARD" brush.

Anyway, the cylinder face DOES NOT have to be perfectly clean. Just make sure it doesn't rub the forcing cone, of course. There must be a gap.

 

[DragonFire]

Is it SS or Blue?

There is a Lead Removal cloth (I forget the brand name) available that will take care of it, but it will also remove the bluing from a gun, so it shouldn't be used for them.

Works great. It comes in a large piece (8x11 maybe), but I cut off and use a small piece. It can be used repeatedly, and works even when the cloth is solid black.

 

[HGUNHNTR]

I beleive Shooters Choice makes a lead remover cloth that works very well. Just cut it up into 4 pieces, they will be plenty big, and make the cloth last longer.

 

[Ben Shepherd]

Birchwood-Casey and a couple other companys make a cloth that looks similar to a silicone wipe down cloth, but treated with a different chemical for just this purpose. Works very well on stainless guns. Do not use on blued guns.

 

[Jkwas]

Is your gun stainless and now it has those nasty little rings around the cylinder face? Kleenbore lead-away cloth. Rub those nasty little rings right away. Jkwas approved.

Ps. That's why I like blued revolvers these days!

 

[gpr]

something that works for me...clean, dry as normal...then use a hard pencil eraser...then dust off eraser...gpr

 

[springmom]

Re: toothbrush....

You can get a double-ended "toothbrush" made for gun cleaning at most gun shops. It's got bristles at both ends, but one end has really short little bristles for getting into smaller spots. Very useful for scrubbing all sorts of things including cylinder faces. I use Hoppe's #9.

HTH

Springmom

 

[ZeSpectre]

Pink rubber erasers work great for a stainless steel gun. As for cleaning the tiny crevasses of the gun I've recently turned to using my wife's steam cleaner (see this thread) for a lot of that stuff.

 

[Steve C]

For stainless revolvers I use a patch cut from a lead wipe-a-way choth mentioned in earlier posts that I wrap around the end of a popsicle stick. This gives me a flat surface that I can reach into places, against the front of the cyliner and allows some pressure to be applied. I also add a bit of bore cleaner, usually Ed's Red but Hoppes would work too, on the cloth which improves the cleaning.

 

[Sport45]

I'll have to keep my guns out of sight. You guys sound like you would be appalled if you saw one if my handguns after cleaning. I don't worry at all about the stain on the cylinder face. I'm just interested im maintaining function.

 

[JohnKSa]

You're probably doing more harm than good by trying to get rid of those stains. They don't hurt anything at all. Use a bronze/brass brush to take off the gunk (on a stainless gun) and don't worry about the stains.

That's why I like blued revolvers these days!

Yup--the stains don't show!

 

[camacho]

You guys are the best! Thanks a lot! Will try that cloth some of you suggested plus the tootbrush and the solvent. The revolver is stainless steel.