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Thread: Upgrading the Cleaning Kit, Suggestions?

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    Hey Mark, how did you like the MTM box and why did you store it away?

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    I works well, especially if you are taking something like that to the range, just be careful, it can be top heavy. It has plenty of storage for various items, they should have did a little research and make the trays long enough to hold the common double ended toothbrush though.

    It takes up a lot of room when you take the top tray off and have it open and use the bottom w/cradles.

    Overall, not bad for all in one spot storage and take along. I think if you have limited space for gear, this would work well. If you lacked a bench, etc, it can act as a stand alone or if you live in an apartment, placing it in a closet, etc wouldn't cause much of an issue-just watch what cleaning agents you buy!

    Oh, I'm an organized pack rat and I'm sure I will load it up with goodies one day for my son to start off.
    GET IN YOUR BUBBLE!

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    [QUOTE=Travelingchild;1056073]
    Quote Originally Posted by Tiny86 View Post
    For a lube I like Weapons Shield......./QUOTE]

    Out of curiousity., what makes weapons shield worth almost twice the price?

    According to the manufacture's own data sheet they appear to be the same product other than marketing/packaging?
    twice the price of and same product as what, their own product "steel shield" or a different lube altogether???
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    Quote Originally Posted by Markasaurus View Post

    This. I own the g and g tool and the botach tactical tool, this one beats them both (it is $40 every place). A lot of people say the carbon on the bolt tail is a non-issue and to leave it alone. I prefer to clean the bolt tail because it can corrode underneath the carbon if ignored long enough. If you aren't concerned about bolt tail carbon enough to buy a dedicated tool, a scotch brite pad and solvent will remove a lot of it.

    I do really like tetra grease. It works up to 750 degrees F and you can rub it in til it disappears, and embeds in the metal. Good for the bolt, bolt tail, bolt lugs, the 4 sliding rails on the bolt carrier group, the cam pin, and hammer where the BCG slides over it.

    AR15 chamber brush if you don't already have one. Mine fits so tight i just coat it with CLP and jam it in, pull it straight out, turn the brush and repeat 3 or 4 times.

    Automotive moly grease (the cheap stuff is perfectly fine). Rather then waste the expensive Tetra grease here I use it on the buffer spring and in the buffer tube. It REALLY helps if that "BOINGG" sound during firing annoys you and you want to make it go away! I will also use it if i am out of tetra grease. I work in automotive and know enough about it to believe if it can stand up to truck wheel bearings at 70 mph on a 110 degree day, it'll work in my AR.

    Hand guard removal tool. I made mine by bending a 3 foot long piece of threaded rod into an arrowhead shape, in a vice and covering it with automotive rubber hose to protect the handguard ring. To use it i sit in a chair, brace the v-end under my leg, place it over the ring and apply pressure. Then i use a screwdriver to gingerly pop off the handguards. It works, sort of, but i think i'd been better off spending the 20 bucks to get a real one from brownells.

    I made it because i want to clean under the handguards occasionally -although i guess you could just flush it out with brake cleaner and call it good. But if dirt, bugs, dead snails or mice are building up under the handguards i want to clean that out too, why do a half-azzed cleaning?
    does Tetra still use PTFE (teflon)? I understand this is not good stuff to expose to combustion and whether true or not, it's why I stopped using it...
    Last edited by ra2bach; 07-28-11 at 12:43.
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    I'm looking at the Dewey cleaning rods and I'm a bit confused. I click on M16/AR15 gun care products and the first two items listed are a 30" rod and 36" rod, or that's what it sounds like with their wording. Is that to allow use of a bore guide with the handle never having to be inside the receiver? Seems like it would be a nightmare trying to store a cleaning rod that long.

    What specific one do you guys use?

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    Quote Originally Posted by aaron_c View Post
    I'm looking at the Dewey cleaning rods and I'm a bit confused. I click on M16/AR15 gun care products and the first two items listed are a 30" rod and 36" rod, or that's what it sounds like with their wording. Is that to allow use of a bore guide with the handle never having to be inside the receiver? Seems like it would be a nightmare trying to store a cleaning rod that long.

    What specific one do you guys use?
    I use the 36" for everything. you can get away with a 30 but I use to shoot CMP match rifles with a 20" barrel and if you use a bore guide, you can sometimes get a patch left in the FH.

    even with a 16" barrel you add about an inch of flash hider and about 8" of receiver and a 30" is about the shortest I'd want...
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    How do you store a rod that long without it getting damaged or bent or anything?

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    Quote Originally Posted by aaron_c View Post
    How do you store a rod that long without it getting damaged or bent or anything?
    I use the MTM Casegard Gun Maintenance Center


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    Quote Originally Posted by aaron_c View Post
    How do you store a rod that long without it getting damaged or bent or anything?
    Hang mine from a nail on the wall and have never had an issue.

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