Efficient gun cleaning methods

[JoeC]

What is the best way to get into all the small nooks and cranny's of a gun when cleaning it?

I've got a 1911 and there are some narrow places on the frame that I cannot get to efficiently. The same with a few places on the slide itself.

With the barrel I can see a tiny bit of buildup inside the barrel right along the edges on a few of the rifle 'rails'. They don't follow the whole length of the rail though. I've tried running the wire brush up and down the barrel numerous times twisting and turning it and running some clean patches through too. I can see it sloooowly disappearing but it's taking a lot of running that wire brush through it. Are there any more efficient means of cleaning out the gunk?

At this point I've settled on 'good enough'. The buildup is very minimal.

[mvpatriot]

$50 ultrasonic cleaner from harbor freight works great for the small stuff

[k0ncept]

I have these little pokers and stuff I purchased at Walmart, its a small kit with 3-4 things that look like dentist tools, but they are plastic, and I used them to get into little grooves and such.

[USMC Tanker]

Q-tips and dental picks for the hard to reach places.

Use bore copper solvent on your barrel, that's what that build up is.

[TMC]

Dishwasher

[CA_SHARPSHOOTER]

+1 dishwasher

[JoeC]

Dishwasher

I'm hesitant to ask this but I will because I've seen people come up with all sorts of weird and wacky ways of doing things.

But um....serious? A dishwasher?

[Prowler]

Q-tips and dental picks for the hard to reach places.

Use bore copper solvent on your barrel, that's what that build up is.

same as me... +1

[supersonic]

Q-Tips; Tipton carbon-fiber picks; Sweet's 7.62 (for that bore); GunScrubber (ONLY on non-polymer/plastic parts!!!).

[ro442173]

Dental picks are a must. If you have to be such a clean freak like myself, I clean my guns even after they have already been cleaned... every 1st of the month I rotate a gun for complete disassembly/cleaning/inspection.

After range cleaning, I usually break that down into a couple of days.

There are only a few things that make me feel better than when that q-tip comes out clean and wet.

[dgey]

I also use an ultrasonic cleaner. you can use water if you'd like but I use Ed's Red to clean my guns... works great and it's very fast... mine is large enough to fit a commander sized 1911 if I take it apart. the only thing that doens't go in to the solution are the wood grips...

[JoeC]

I've not had the gun for long and have only done a field strip cleaning 3 times now. At any point is it necessary to do a complete disassembly cleaning?

[Juicymeat]

I completely disassemble my gun every 1500 rounds. I am lazy so I just take a ziploc bag and dump all the parts in one bag, the frame in another, and the slide in another and fill all 3 bags with Break Free CLP and leave it overnight. Come morning or whenever I have time to clean it (minimum 24 hours), all the crud just wipes off. No tools, just a bore snake, a towel, and toothbrush.

[Rogue2215]

CLP, Bore Brush, nylon brush, and GUN SCRUBBER (just like carb cleaner). GB flushes everything out

[supersonic]

I completely disassemble my gun every 1500 rounds. I am lazy so I just take a ziploc bag and dump all the parts in one bag, the frame in another, and the slide in another and fill all 3 bags with Break Free CLP and leave it overnight. Come morning or whenever I have time to clean it (minimum 24 hours), all the crud just wipes off. No tools, just a bore snake, a towel, and toothbrush.

That's a great friggin' method for us "lazy-a$5e$!" However, your forum "handle" is a bit..............um.............creepy(?), shall we say!