Bore cleaning question

[DB2]

Basic question on cleaning. It seems ever since I put my "Stag lowered AR clone" together, I have never been able to get the bore to come clean. It is a non-chrome lined Colt barrel (early M16A1). The bore is perfect but I can never seem to get the pads to come out clean. It seems to get better after a few passes with a bronze brush but I can never get them white. I'm afraid of damaging the bore with being to aggressive with the brush. All my other rifles I get clean with a few passes, but this one is killing me. I'm used to cleaning Milsurps but.............. All I have is some crap Remington solvent at the moment, but it seems to work fine with the other ones.


Should I not worry to much about it? I'm about to switch it with a chrome lined barrel I have just because it is odd to me not to have the pads come out white.

[scootergmc]

Here's everything you ever wanted to know:

http://www.6mmbr.com/borecleaning.html

[AlohaRover]

Was it a used barrel?

Give Kroil a try. Comes in an orangish colored can. Really is amazing stuff.

Clean the chamber first. lots of q-tips soaked in kroil. If this is not working give a squirt of Brake Clean.
After the chamber is clean, plug the muzzle end of the barrel, ear plug works great.
Lean the rifle against something so that it wont fall over, and so that you wont damage the muzzle. Put down some paper towels or shop rags or...
Fill up the barrel with kroil. Let sit for 30-60 minutes.
Pour out the kroil. Run a bronze brush through 2-6 times.
I am a huge fan of NOT doing a back and forth scrubing action on barrels.
Push the brush through from chamber to muzzel, remove brush. Repeat. This really is a NM type of thing, but its a good habbit to get into.
Run a clean dry patch through, chamber to muzzle remove patch. Repeat 2-3 times.
Spray out gas tube, chamber and barrel with Carb Clean.
2-4 more clean patches.
Soak a patch with Kroil run through bore.
Done.

[ETD1010]

My patches end up a light gray when the bbl is clean, never have I had it come out with NOTHING on it. My M44 and older rifles, however, pull crap out every time I shoot them. . . I should probably soak them in a heavy solvent and clean them up once and for all

[sloguy]

let the solvent do its work. get the bore wet and let it sit a hour or two. patch it out and get it wet again and let it sit again. repeat. i use those soft nylon brushes and dip em into a small seperate batch of solvent, that way the brush gets cleaned on each dipping. you can discard the dirty solvent or let it settle and pour the semi clean top part of solvent into a fresh container.

basically keep the bore wet for a long time and let the solvent do the work. far less scrubbing is needed that way.

[DrjonesUSA]

Basic question on cleaning. It seems ever since I put my "Stag lowered AR clone" together, I have never been able to get the bore to come clean. It is a non-chrome lined Colt barrel (early M16A1). The bore is perfect but I can never seem to get the pads to come out clean. It seems to get better after a few passes with a bronze brush but I can never get them white. I'm afraid of damaging the bore with being to aggressive with the brush. All my other rifles I get clean with a few passes, but this one is killing me. I'm used to cleaning Milsurps but.............. All I have is some crap Remington solvent at the moment, but it seems to work fine with the other ones.


Should I not worry to much about it? I'm about to switch it with a chrome lined barrel I have just because it is odd to me not to have the pads come out white.

Don't worry about it - you will never get the patches to come out 100% clean.

It will be fine.

[jacques]

My patches end up a light gray when the bbl is clean, never have I had it come out with NOTHING on it. My M44 and older rifles, however, pull crap out every time I shoot them. . . I should probably soak them in a heavy solvent and clean them up once and for all

Mine do to. My M44, doesnt seem to mater how many time I repeat the process, it always comes out dirty. I think I am going to try that kroll stuff, I have seen other people talking about it.

[dw1784]

Here's everything you ever wanted to know:

http://www.6mmbr.com/borecleaning.html

+1. use Kroil to get the carbon out. Then use MP7 or WipeOut foam with accelerator to get the copper. Follow the link on 6mmbr for the tubing tip with WipeOut. Good luck.

[Rem1492]

I got small glass vials at the container store for my Kroil, it leaks out of the can and all over my cleaning container. the stuff really does creep!

[saki302]

Watch out when using aggressive copper solvents (Butch's, shooter's choice) and bronze brushes. The solvent will eat the brushes, and if you wait long enough, patches will always come out blue

-Dave