Gun cleaning tips that work for you

[n.one.one]

Hey n11. Don't know if anyone has said if or not but the denture brush is a great idea. Good tip.

Thanks RICHARDINFELTON. I'll take that as encouragement to add another very minor idea.

I use pointed wood sticks together with a patch or rag to get into hard to get places. I found the sticks at a restaurant that uses them to hold sandwiches together. I think they're the same sticks that are used for dipping apples and should be found easily.

I also use wood stick cotton swabs which were hard to find but now are available again in drugstores. Before I found the pointed sticks I took the cotton off the Q-tip and used it with a patch.

 

[marinetbryant]

I use those latex gloves to keep hands and fingers solvent free. Seems like you have to wash forever to get it off your hands.

 

[streetroc]

I just use a wire brush with solvent, run my patches until theyre clean, and then finish it with a cotton swab soaked in oil. For everything else, an old rag and a toothbrush works just fine.

Wood furniture gets a rub down with some boiled linseed oil. It really protects the finish and keeps them nice and glossy!

 

[lilred06]

Thanks RICHARDINFELTON. I'll take that as encouragement to add another very minor idea.

I use pointed wood sticks together with a patch or rag to get into hard to get places. I found the sticks at a restaurant that uses them to hold sandwiches together. I think they're the same sticks that are used for dipping apples and should be found easily.

I also use wood stick cotton swabs which were hard to find but now are available again in drugstores. Before I found the pointed sticks I took the cotton off the Q-tip and used it with a patch.

'nother vote for the q-tips..I find em to work quite well and have also been known to use something like the pointed sticks or a toothpick with a patch

 

[ARCman47]

the Denture brush(only $1 at DG) , cheap toothbrush, q-tips, rubbing alcohol and BALLISTOL! FTW!!!!

 

[mikey357]

Well, I'm kinda' LAZY...I prefer to work SMART, not HARD, so...when I'm thru shooting one of my Revo's, SS or Blue, I take the Cylinder and Yoke and SOAK 'em in a Widemouth Jar full of Hoppe's--for a day or two--when I take 'em out, a lil' effort with a Bronze "Toothbrush", and ALL that NASTY STUFF on the Cylinder Face is GONE!!! YMMV, of course...and DO NOT try this with a NICKEL Revo, as the Hoppe's will "Eat Away" the Nickel Plating...HTH....mikey357