How do you clean your stainless revolvers?

[rivviepop]

If you want to get the inside of the cylinders clean, sometimes it takes a stainless brush.

Funny you mention, I just picked up a stainless chamber brush this afternoon, because...

I also avoid lead loads- those are a byotch to clean, and don't offset the savings, IMO. Stick with FMJ or even TMJ.

...I came by 13 or so boxes of Remington +P 38's which are lead hollowpoint (or so they call them) for $10/bx. I'm using them up at the range, but yeah - discovering what a b*tch they are to clean up after. Another 6 boxes or so left, then I'm done - everything else is TMJ/FMJ/JHP in the ammo pile. They're really hot so I'm only firing them out of 357's (just in case), which is fouling up my chambers pretty bad.

[saki302]

Haha- I love the nice hole lead wadcutters make, but I hate cleaning up after them
Someone needs to design a jacketed wadcutter...

-Dave

[moulton]

Slip 2000 Carbon Killer, If you get the big jar you can just submerse the whole cylinder in it and let it sit for 15 minutes. After that wipe it off and vuala, bright and shiney .

[Spearo]

I remove the grip, spray my revolver down with MPRO 7, let it sit for 20-30min, and then scrub the cylinder with a bronze brush. Most residue will be removed.

[JTROKS]

First I strip it down to this



Then I commence cleaning.


LOL! Joking. That's after so many years of shooting thousands of rounds and a few years in storage. My regular cleaning is Hoppes 9, a gun scrubber, a Lewis lead remover kit, bronze and hard bristle brush.

[Turbinator]

Hey, all you guys who use an abrasive material on the front of the cylinder face.. aren't you worried that over time you're going to increase the cylinder gap? Maybe not after 1 or 2 polishings, but say after 10 years of routine polishing and removal of metal...

Turby

[bwiese]

I clean them 'good enough'- which means powder residue gone, and the outside clean e nough to function. I figure anything beyond that will be moot after the next 5 rounds are fired.

Yeah, most people overclean their guns. I'd bet more guns are ruined from overcleaning than undercleaning - esp when abrasives and steel brushes and metal cleaning rods get involved.

I use a green Scotchbrite pad dipped in CLP to scrub my cylinder fronts and under the topstrap area.

I use Hoppe's #9 for the bore in revolvers, but CLP in autoloader bbls as I sometimes shoot lead in revolvers and Hoppe's seems better for that.

I also avoid lead loads- those are a byotch to clean, and don't offset the savings, IMO. Stick with FMJ or even TMJ.

Hard-cast lead isn't too bad. With my buddy Felonious Phil's reloads, the gun appears to be dirty mostly from case lube, but cleans up easily.

[rivviepop]

Just posted this over on the revolver porn thread, y'all gave me the idea for this. Sure, you can clean it "well enough", but me - I like 'em purty. Next time they go bang, we start all over again. Took me around 2.5hrs to get all the caked on carbon off (this is one of the ones I picked up that looked like it hadn't ever been cleaned). Of course I shot it up at the range yesterday first.

[Mr. Meeseeks]

WOW! Thats beautiful, gun, cleaning job and the pic. Sweet!!!

[supersonic]

I've tried lots of solvents but always came back to #9 with hours-days of soaking and bronze brush, until I discovered their Elite line of products. It's like soaking with #9, but you just have to wait minutes not days. This stuff really works as advertised and is non toxic with barely any odor (I do miss the #9 smell though).

Hoppes Elite Bore Gel
Hoppes Elite Gun Cleaner

+100% The stuff is amazing. I know what you mean by missing the #9 smell. Or, you can do what M.E.'s do when they have to recover decomposing bodies: instead of Vick's Vapor-Rub, just smear a little #9 under each nostril before each gun cleaning session!!!!

p.s.-joking -- rubbing Hoppe's Old No. 9 ANYWHERE on your face would probably be a bad idea.

[Mr. Meeseeks]

LOL!
Yeah, I strongly suggest everyone gives the Hoppes Elite series of products a try, the stuff is pretty revolutionary.
Another great product is Gunbutter.
In terms of smell, Breakfree CLP is starting to grow on me, I used to hate the stuff, now it kind of reminds me of Jack'n'Coke (I'm not sure why).

[FatOnCoke]

LOL!
Yeah, I strongly suggest everyone gives the Hoppes Elite series of products a try, the stuff is pretty revolutionary.
Another great product is Gunbutter.
In terms of smell, Breakfree CLP is starting to grow on me, I used to hate the stuff, now it kind of reminds me of Jack'n'Coke (I'm not sure why).

I had a full bottle of Hoppe's #9 tipped over on my carpet. I must have lost 10 IQ points from the fume.

[rivviepop]

I had a full bottle of Hoppe's #9 tipped over on my carpet. I must have lost 10 IQ points from the fume.

Was that the normal stuff? The "Black Label" (in my pic) is even worse, it's a more syrupy type of liquid and the smell is at least twice as worse from all the ammonia in it.... two large windows have to be open while I'm cleaning.