the prowler
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I don't spray anything in mine. Enough bits in there. I just dry them on a radiator afterwards.
To clean or not to clean Moderators ? - That is the question.
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Not a question.....
Just don't
IMO its a disaster waiting to happen (and I have the box of shame in the workshop to prove it)
1)
The tube threads in the body are very fine in aluminium mods
Add grease/oil and carbon into the threads and you have a grinding paste
Keep disassmbling/reassembling and the threads wear, gas leaks occur, hot spots appear, breaches happen...
2)
Operator Error is a major issue
You find mods that are not fully screwed back together due to carbon ingress into the threads. (see above)
3)
Clean mods or louder! FACT
4)
When you clean the carbon off you expose the now un-anodised aluminium.......which burns easily at 40-50kpsi and high temps.
The carbon actually protects the metal
So why are you cleaning it?
Anything loose comes out with the shot
Quick spray of light oil to neutralise the acidic compounds, dry it on a radiator, clean the threads for the muzzle and go shoot it.
Don't use WD40, this has a habit of going sticky, congealing and attracting carbon which in turn becomes ever thicker and fills voids and encroaches on the bore
Just don't
IMO its a disaster waiting to happen (and I have the box of shame in the workshop to prove it)
1)
The tube threads in the body are very fine in aluminium mods
Add grease/oil and carbon into the threads and you have a grinding paste
Keep disassmbling/reassembling and the threads wear, gas leaks occur, hot spots appear, breaches happen...
2)
Operator Error is a major issue
You find mods that are not fully screwed back together due to carbon ingress into the threads. (see above)
3)
Clean mods or louder! FACT
4)
When you clean the carbon off you expose the now un-anodised aluminium.......which burns easily at 40-50kpsi and high temps.
The carbon actually protects the metal
So why are you cleaning it?
Anything loose comes out with the shot
Quick spray of light oil to neutralise the acidic compounds, dry it on a radiator, clean the threads for the muzzle and go shoot it.
Don't use WD40, this has a habit of going sticky, congealing and attracting carbon which in turn becomes ever thicker and fills voids and encroaches on the bore
.... and this thread illustrates precisely why I am never sure how to clean my F&D mod, or whether I should at all.
I have never cleaned my A-Tec Maxim because the gunshop who sold it to me Loctited it to stop me.
I was told to use WD40 to neutralise alkaline compounds in my F&D, but somebody told me to stop because it was dieseling.
I hope this helps
I have never cleaned my A-Tec Maxim because the gunshop who sold it to me Loctited it to stop me.
I was told to use WD40 to neutralise alkaline compounds in my F&D, but somebody told me to stop because it was dieseling.
I hope this helps
Agreed rimfire should defiantly be cleaned or the unburned powder at least neutralised - I have a wildcat thats particularly easy to clean. Just a wipe with blue roll
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