ok - thank you for all of you that have put up with my noob questions.
I am going to be taking my AR to the range for the first time and tonight I got it ready. Please let me know if I missed anything.
I did read the sticky on basic cleaning.
1. broke the gun down into the 3 major groups
2. removed the BCG and CH
3. Removed clip and firing pin
4. rotated and removed cam pin
5. pulled out bolt
6. took bolt apart
7. placed BC and Bolt with parts into the mineral and BF CLP solution.
8. Cleaned with a paint brush and removed to dry - also wiped them down to help dry as I have not found the nice tray setup as posted.
9. Used a 5.56 Hopps bore snake with some CLP before and a little after the copper brush section. Ran that through twice.
10. lubed all the points on the BC and Bolt with machine gunners lube.
** Noticed the gas rings move around in the spot very easily I assume when inserted into the BC the squeeze and tighten up... Do i have to worry about them being bent when inserting the bolt into the BC?
11.lubed the BC and CH.
12. placed a drop in the lower assembly as directed in the basic cleaning post.
13. placed the upper and lower together.
** noticed that the back of the upper where it meets the lower (edge) is showing bare alu.. is this an issue or common with a gun that was never fired yet? The ch I figured it would wear as it moves...at least i noticed that on mine from running the CH to work the lube.
14. Wiped the outside with BF CLP with a paint brush as light as possible (which I still am a bit heavy) and then wiped the best I could with a black tank. There are some parts that I may have a bit heavy on the CLP... is that an issue when it is in the case besides being oily when I handle it?
Please let me know if I missed anything... I hope I did everything that is needed.
Thanks again for all your help and sorry for the long post.
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