Where do you guys buy your cleaning kits, or tools. I have a hard time trying to find the tools I am looking for individually. I find kits all day, but don't want a new kit, I want individual pieces.
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Where do you guys buy your cleaning kits, or tools. I have a hard time trying to find the tools I am looking for individually. I find kits all day, but don't want a new kit, I want individual pieces.
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Brownells.com has anything that you would need to clean with. You can click on the banner above, as they are a supporter of this site.
Merry X Mas.
Or Sinclair. Which is now owned by Brownells, go figure.
The dedicated chamber tools from them are worth their weight in gold IMO. There's two you want, the one that has a Dewey fixed rod with chamber brush and the other, which I got from Sinclair(lug recess tool) is the one that has a plastic sleeve which slides over the end which holds a cotton roll. What happens is when the sleeve bottoms out on the barrel extension, the cotton roll slides forward and you rotate it to clean the recess area. Works like a champ. While you are it and if you don't aleready have them is pick up the Dewey one piece rods, coated or brass. I'm lazy so I have two, one for the brush, jag one the other.
Mark
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Most cleaning stuff can be found herein. Good prices, good service and a vast selection. Don't just limit your search to AR specifc stuff.
I got a really good set of pics at Harbor Freight.
OK, that makes sense.
The set I bought at Harbor Freight are not medical instument quality but they are definately good enough to clean firearms with. The price was right was well, $6.99 for a set of 6 pics.
Just out of curiosity, what parts of the platform do you use the picks for when cleaning?
For the bore, I use the otis flexi-rod and slotted tip, pulling through with the t-handle. Order them separately:
flexi-rod
slotted tip, t-handle
patches
I don't need to use their patches, but I do.
For the chamber I use two pieces of a USGI rod and chamber brush. Works great.
Yeah. Inside the bolt carrier mostly. Much of that carbon can be left without hurting function, but I feel like a mullet if I leave it in there. Also the tail of the bolt gets some mean carbon that I sometimes have to scrape off.
Another thing that I added to my cleaning kit is a pen light, such as the type that EMS/medical personell use. It helps to light up those dark areas.
I've bypassed the use of picks. Between using a aerosol solvent which blasts crud out of the barrel extension (be sure to weare eye pro though), and the Sinclair Lug Recess cleaning tool, it gets that area clean enough. I suppose I could pick a minute bit out of a cranny somewhere, but it's never been that big a deal to me.
Barrel extention's never been a problem. I just swab that out as best I can. Carbon doesn't build up there.
I've actually found that dropping CLP in the exhaust ports of the carrier with the bolt unlocked (so the CLP can get behind the gas rings) immediately after a shoot makes carbon removal much easier when I clean that night or the next day.