Does anyone use a sonic cleaner to clean their baffles? How well do they work if so. I purchased my first silencer a couple months ago. The check for the tax stamp has been cashed and now I'm counting down the months for the silencer to get out of jail. I want to get as many things I can during the wait.
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dogtown tom
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I do, it works well.
Tumblers work well to.
Whether either works for you depends on what your baffles are made of and how much crud they have.
Tumblers work well to.
Whether either works for you depends on what your baffles are made of and how much crud they have.
Soonerpesek
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What is your suggested tumbler media for dry tumbling...?
What is your recommended mix for the sonic cleaner...?
Thanks in advance for your input...
dogtown tom
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It wasn't my tumbler, but a friends and he used little steel pins.
I used Dawn.
Understand that aluminum needs special precautions and might not play well with a sonic cleaner.
The good news is dirty silencers are usually quieter silencers. Rimfire silencers should be cleaned often enough that they don't become difficult to disassemble.
Which works better for a .22 silencer. A tumbler or an ultrasonic cleaner.
dogtown tom
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Caliber is irrelevant.
Again, it depends on what your baffles are made from. If aluminum, using strong chemicals and a powerful ultrasonic cleaner may damage the AL.
If stainless steel you wont have that issue.
On stainless baffles, stainless pins in a tumbler worked better.
Thank you this is the exactly what I was looking for. No aluminum in the tumbler and can use stainless pins on stainless baffles.
greyling22
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a jar of hydrogen peroxide and vinegar works best. assuming you bought a can with stainless internals. I haven't found anything else that works worth beans.
dogtown tom
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Do you like lead poisoning? Enjoy disposing of a toxic substance?
Because using "The Dip" (hydrogen peroxide and white vinegar) creates lead acetate and is not something to recommend to a novice.
Read: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/07/05/the-dip-a-toxic-mixture-used-to-clean-silencer-parts/
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https://www.silencershop.com/blog/post/sonic-cleaners-suppressors
Don't forget about what it can do to the finish, if you have a real Ultrasonic Cleaner!
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Hmm...
Bubbadump it into the apartment toilet, as nobody will ever notice?
Some hole in the backyard?
Bad, bad.
greyling22
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Dipping produces lead acetate, a water-soluble lead compound that is toxic. It can be rendered LESS toxic, and much safer to handle, by precipitating out the lead into an insoluble lead salt.
Mix up about a pint of epsom salts. Make the solution saturated, i.e. add enough epsom salts so that no more will dissolve.
Take your used dip, and slowly add the epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) solution. You will immediately see solid lead sulfate fall out (precipitate) as a powder. Continue adding epsom salts until no more lead sulfate forms. If in doubt, add it all.
The solubility of lead acetate is about 50 grams per liter... that is a lot. Lead sulfate is only 0.0038 grams per liter. Lead sulfate is still toxic, like all lead salts, but much, much less dangerous than lead acetate.
Mix up about a pint of epsom salts. Make the solution saturated, i.e. add enough epsom salts so that no more will dissolve.
Take your used dip, and slowly add the epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) solution. You will immediately see solid lead sulfate fall out (precipitate) as a powder. Continue adding epsom salts until no more lead sulfate forms. If in doubt, add it all.
The solubility of lead acetate is about 50 grams per liter... that is a lot. Lead sulfate is only 0.0038 grams per liter. Lead sulfate is still toxic, like all lead salts, but much, much less dangerous than lead acetate.
unspellable
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I'm a noob when it comes to cans. Local Gander was closing and I got a good price on an aluminum 22 can. 22's tend to be dirty. What's the best way to clean an aluminum can? The crud seems to be really tight.
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