Use Kroil Or Hoppes For Gun Chamber Cleaning?
09-26-2011,03:48 AM #one
Cleaning carbon out of 357 chambers
Was reading an article on loading for the 357 Magnum in the newest Amer. Rifleman and noted the writer mentioned that he would always shoot 38s in a certain 357 Magnum pistol, because by shooting those, a carbon build-up would form and he implied it would be too difficult to remove it.Well, I was in the aforementioned boat with my old duty gun, a Southward&W 686-3. We had carried 357s back in those days and qualified with 38s, so I naturally kept those chambers well cleaned so the 357s would feed and not stick due to any carbon build-upwardly. Well, since converting over to autoloaders, I had been shooting almost exclusively 38s in that revolver, and there was a horrendous carbon ring build up in all the chambers. It was bad enough that 357s wouldn't seat without considerable pressure and they didn't eject very easily at all.
So I decided I needed to clean that cylinder up, both and then I could use the longer contumely over again and to re-verify to my satisfaction that the Amer. Rifleman article was incorrect.
I found a VERY like shooting fish in a barrel way to practise this, and idea information technology might be helpful to share:
First, I removed the cylinder from the pistol and took off the crane.
2nd, I squirted a generous, merely not ridiculous, amount of KROIL into each sleeping room.
Third, I sat the cylinder on a store rag and so ii chambers were down. Allow the Kroil sit for 8-ten hours.
Fourth, I turned the cylinder over and so the two contrary chambers on the cylinder were sitting downwards. Let it sit overnight/some other 8-x hours.
Fifth, after that soaking in KROIL, I took a twoscore-cal. bronze brush, put it on a short cleaning rod (not with the handle, because I wanted to spin the brush while information technology was in the sleeping room), and so I turned the brush around within each chamber about 30-forty times.
Later using some patches to remove the KROIL, I looked inside, and the chambers were spic-and-span. Not a spec of carbon anywhere to exist seen.
I'm sure other solvents would piece of work as well, only I similar KROIL, because the creeping action seems to give it some penetration under/into the carbon, and the creeping action means it'south not necessary to soak the whole function in a tin can or bucket of solvent to cover the surface area that needs cleaned.
Promise this helps anyone who thinks they've permanently converted their 357 into a 38 due to a carbon ring build-upwards.
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09-26-2011,12:08 PM #three
Hi Guesser,
Yeah, the cordless drill road is easier, but mine was upstairs, while I was downstairs, so I only twisted by hand. Sorry I wasn't very clear on that point. I do prefer the drill/screwdriver method though!You must be a more than-responsible cleaner of firearms than I, because my carbon build-up wouldn't come off without soaking. That item cylinder has probably seen a picayune under x,000 rds of 38s without cleaning, so each chamber got at to the lowest degree g rds of 38s. The carbon was hard, built-up, and anile (at to the lowest degree the lesser layers)...
I'm betting a soak in Hoppe'south (or whatsoever other solvent) would've worked well, but the thing I liked virtually the Kroil is that I didn't take to make full a tin with enough solvent to encompass the carbon when setting the cylinder into the can. The wicking-action and creeping/penetrating activity of the Kroil permit me merely squirt each bedchamber and roll it around.
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09-26-2011,07:25 PM #seven
I've used the Spinning Castor Method to de-carbon my 357 chambers in the past. Hoppe'southward-soak overnight, then go at information technology.I got tired of that, and started firing simply 357 cases in 357 chambers, same story in 44 Magazine. Life is besides short to spend time on carbon ring clean-out.
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09-xxx-2011,12:39 AM #fourteen
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Use Kroil Or Hoppes For Gun Chamber Cleaning?,
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