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All Springer/NP/PCP Air Gun Discussion General => PCP/CO2/HPA Air Gun Gates "The Darkside" => Topic started by: trinket on March 14, 2013, 10:36:02 PM
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I usually use a drop of WD40 on a patch and pull it through with a crown saver, but seems that I have ran out of WD40. Shots are starting to scatter.
I need to use something on the patch that would clean the barrel ! What would YOU use?
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These are some of the things I have used...may not have been the "best" but they've worked and I had them on hand when a barrel needed cleaning.
1. Goo-gone. Problem here is unless you do a lot of dry patches after the goo-gone wet patch, the stuff tends to dry sticky.
2. Pneumatic Tool oil (can often find a full pint of this for about $4). It's made for air tools.
3. WD 40. I actually hate the stuff, but it is a pretty good cleaner.
4. Mineral oil. Again, best to use lots of dry patches after the first damp ones.
5. ATF (automatic transmission fluid). Had to be hard-up to try this, but it did seem to work.
6. LOTS of tight dry patches. Seems that even if the patches are dry, use enough of them and the barrel comes out clean.
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Well I went a different route, First I removed the barrel, then;
1. Ran a patch with some JB bore paste ( 10 strokes)
1. Cleaned the bore then ran JB bore bright on a patch (20 stokes) then cleaned the bore.
3. Son went the extra and used mothers polish (20 strokes)
Results, I did some shooting over the summer and was getting 1 1/4" groups (unsorted JSB's) at 100 yrds with an on and off cross wind (up to 10mph), trying to shoot between the gusts. Mine is a .25 ( bought used)
Son has a .22 Mrod (bought new) and was getting 3/8" at 45 yds with polymags.
Groups measured to ouside of holes.
For GP cleaning I use a damp patch with a little CLP on it followed by many dry patches, till patches come out clean.
Regards
Ray
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Should have stated that the paste was only used once on the barrels. The mothers only when the bores look like they are getting fouled up (very dirty).
Standard procedure is a wet patch with CLP as I have a bunch of that, followed by dry patches till clean. I feel the JB paste removes any burrs left from the manufacturing process and helps keep the bores from picking up lead and making cleaning easier down the road. It's what we do for our PB's and thought it made sense for airguns too. We also use Dewey coated rods and are mindful the airgun barrels have shallow rifling and most likely softer steel.
Works for us anyway
Regards
Ray
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yeah, definatly +1 on the mothers polish, i did all of my airgun barrels and they dont ever seem to lead foul anymore. Especially my mrod barrel, iv seen a great improvement in accuracy and i can go forever without cleaning and dont notice any reduction in performance. i run a bore snake though after i finish a 500 tin of JSB 18gr and thats about the extent of my cleaning for that gun. I highly encourage the metal polish after you clean your bore next time. then you can invest $7 in a bore snake and call it good for a few years. =)
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yeah, definatly +1 on the mothers polish, i did all of my airgun barrels and they dont ever seem to lead foul anymore. Especially my mrod barrel, iv seen a great improvement in accuracy and i can go forever without cleaning and dont notice any reduction in performance. i run a bore snake though after i finish a 500 tin of JSB 18gr and thats about the extent of my cleaning for that gun. I highly encourage the metal polish after you clean your bore next time. then you can invest $7 in a bore snake and call it good for a few years. =)
Does the bore snake have a wire brush built in to it? Do you remove the breech o-ring when using the bore snake?
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yeah, definatly +1 on the mothers polish, i did all of my airgun barrels and they dont ever seem to lead foul anymore. Especially my mrod barrel, iv seen a great improvement in accuracy and i can go forever without cleaning and dont notice any reduction in performance. i run a bore snake though after i finish a 500 tin of JSB 18gr and thats about the extent of my cleaning for that gun. I highly encourage the metal polish after you clean your bore next time. then you can invest $7 in a bore snake and call it good for a few years. =)
Let me get this straight,( because I've never heard this before) the Mothers Mag &Aluminum (red& white plastic Container) that I clean the aluminum on my bass boat with, is good applied to a patch, then pulled though my Mrod barrel will improve ACCURACY ?? :o