I hate to do this, but I gotta rant about my Nylon 66

[Dienekes]

Otis cleaning kits are something I wouldn't use on a bet--but I wish I had a percentage of the profits they get from sales.

BTW I have two Nylon 66s, one minty and one I restored. The most I do with them is blast them out with brake cleaner.

And yes, the barrel will remove rather easily.

 

[TheDisturbed1]

Pretty low budget operation we were doing, and extremely short notice as well (call it a suprise cleaning party).

The Otis is nice, I can't complain really apart from the weird specialty patches.

The reason we could not use rods, is that the very little space is wouldnt accomodate the proper space to get the bore brush without reversing in the barrel... Which I know is a huge no-no.

If I would have known that barrel comes off that easy... Man, it would have took us 10 minutes for both Nylon's.

 

[shootr]

What everyone else said re take the barrel off. Real EZ. Maybe takes one minute.

Personally, don't like taking plastic things apart a bunch of times, so I use a bore snake.

Take time to be careful of scratches around the ejection port. Use a little gunzilla before the bristles. Two pull throughs in 30 seconds.

 

[kBob]

Ummmm,

Remove the two screws that hold on the action cover. Pull out the "bolt handle and keep it handy. Remove the cover, dont loose the ejector when it falls off the side of the plastic stock/receiver.

Loosen, but do not remove the philips head type "action Screw" on the bottom of the stockuntill you can slide the barrel out the front. CLean the barrel and breech face. WIpe out the front of the bolt face or tooth brush it and if it blows your skirts up clean out the action area while holding back the bolt

Assemble in reverse order.

I think I have had to clean mine, or just felt mooved to do so, twice in about 30 years. Same same with the GR8 my wife has.

-Bob Hollingsworth

 

[mkl]

Another cute Nylon 66 feature -- did you know you can single load them faster than an actual single shot .22?

Be sure the gun is empty and then turn it sidways so that the ejection port is facing up. Lay a .22 LR in the ejection port. Cycle the action fast. The cartridge will drop in and load like a charm.

Love those guns.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

Actually the nylon 66 is one of the easiest .22's to clean. You just have to disassenble it first. You will need to remove 3 screws only and the bbl. comes right off. What could be easier? You have complete access to the receiver, bolt, bbl.

Just be sure you do not overtighten the 2 receiver screws when you reassemble it, otherwise you may put excessive pressure on the mechanism and cause jams. If this happens just back off the screws a little.

 

[Feanaro]

Clean a .22?

 

[JNewell]

Yes it really is that easy, but I'm with the post above. Shoot reasonable ammo and clean as little as possible. More likely to damage the bore with a rod than not, and I never warmed up to boresnakes because you can't clean them very well. (Did I miss something on that?)