Affordable sonic gun cleaner?

TexasRedneck · Jan 30, 2012

Texan2 said:
So what do I tell my shooting buddies when they are clearing the FTF/FTE from their 1911's (its not one or two of them, its most of them) while I continue to chew up the target with a Glock?

I'm not dissing 1911s just saying they require "maintainence".

How many Glocks get sent back vs. 1911s to get them to feed correctly?

Glocks are ugly but they work...everytime.

Now my apologies for the hijack.....

Bitchslap 'em and tell 'em that they're either limpwristin' 'em or not taking care of their weapon. I don't care WHAT make of weapon it is, or how "it doesn't need it" - when your LIFE depends on it going bang every time, you'd DAMN WELL best take care of it - and that means at least a monthly clean - more often as indicated!!

TexasRedneck · Jan 30, 2012

Jakashh said:
Really? How do you manage putting the slide release through the barrel link? That's the most annoying part for me lol. Sometimes it moves back and you can't slip the slide release through it because it's not aligned with the slide release hole.

Piece of cake - it's got a LOT to do with practice, but a dab of grease on the link to help it "stick", roll gun on side, slide in barrel an' drop in release. Try it with eyes opened, paying attention to just how you hold things - and you'll actually learn that it's pretty dang easy!

orbitup · Jan 30, 2012

TexasRedneck said:
Piece of cake - it's got a LOT to do with practice, but a dab of grease on the link to help it "stick", roll gun on side, slide in barrel an' drop in release. Try it with eyes opened, paying attention to just how you hold things - and you'll actually learn that it's pretty dang easy!

It's the angle of the dangle.

TexasRedneck · Jan 30, 2012

orbitup said:
It's the angle of the dangle.

Purty much....with practice, you'll even find you can do it with the gun at almost any angle - it's just getting used to it.

Acera · Jan 30, 2012

Jakashh You are probably holding your mouth wrong, try it with you toungue sticking out the left side, let us know if that helps.

Glockster69 · Jan 30, 2012

Holding your MOUTH wrong

Get a rope

<head shakes in disgust>

ChunkyMonkey · Jan 30, 2012

TexasRedneck said:
Ask ChunkyMonkey OR FuelFather how long it takes me ta put a 1911 back together....blindfolded. They had to be able to do the same in order ta shoot my guns - and they shot 'em regularly!

Knowledge of a weapon system is absolutely critical - and if you can't field strip and reassemble quickly, then you're screwed, no matter WHAT make it is. I just figure if I'm gonna shoot somethin', it's gonna be with a *good* gun.

Yes, please, someone ask me......

I've never seen him do it blindfolded, yet alone do it at all....lmao....okay, I'm runnin'

Glockster69 · Jan 30, 2012

I guess you're betting he'll forget ^that^ in the eleven months before next Christmas.

ChunkyMonkey · Jan 30, 2012

I live life on the naughty list, lol. Well, while wearing body armor also, lol

hkusp1 · Jan 30, 2012

I used my wifes sonic care tooth brush to clean a gun one time, she was pissed the next day when she brushed her teeth because it tasted like hoppes 9.

TexasRedneck · Jan 30, 2012

ChunkyMonkey said:
Yes, please, someone ask me......
I've never seen him do it blindfolded, yet alone do it at all....lmao....okay, I'm runnin'

Hmmmm.....ah see some more truck wirin' in yer future.....

ChunkyMonkey · Jan 30, 2012

TexasRedneck · Jan 30, 2012

Here - lemme load that for ya again....just in case the first round didn't do the trick!

M. Sage · Jan 30, 2012

TexasRedneck said:
Toss the parts on an old cookie sheet in an oven preheated ta 200 degrees - leave in for 30 minutes then remove and allow to cool to the touch. No worries about water inside a small crevice then!

Sheesh.....kids!

Works, too. But having the water at 200, it dries really quickly anyway. Never had a problem getting mine dry.

TexasRedneck · Jan 30, 2012

M. Sage said:
Works, too. But having the water at 200, it dries really quickly anyway. Never had a problem getting mine dry.

ummmm....yer FIRST reply was:

M. Sage said:
Wouldn't suggest that with anything polymer, but it'd work with a metal gun.

hmmmm......ah thought anything a 1911'd do, a Glock'd do better????

M. Sage · Jan 30, 2012

TexasRedneck said:
ummmm....yer FIRST reply was:

hmmmm......ah thought anything a 1911'd do, a Glock'd do better????

Yeah, that was my first reply. Freaked at the word "oven." Then I remembered the boiling point of water...

TexasRedneck · Jan 30, 2012

M. Sage said:
Yeah, that was my first reply. Freaked at the word "oven." Then I remembered the boiling point of water...

umhmmmm....right....<G>

Actually, baking is better only because you're bringing the base material up to a temperature that it'll evaporate the water with enough residual heat to ensure it's totally dry. Using hot water on cold metal CAN mean water leave behind in crevices/etc.

M. Sage · Jan 30, 2012

TexasRedneck said:
umhmmmm....right....<G>

Actually, baking is better only because you're bringing the base material up to a temperature that it'll evaporate the water with enough residual heat to ensure it's totally dry. Using hot water on cold metal CAN mean water leave behind in crevices/etc.

But like I said before, I run my cleaner for half an hour. I have to be careful handling the parts I take out because they're hot!

TheDan · Jan 31, 2012

M. Sage said:
You can use it indoors because you are NOT supposed to use flammables in an ultrasonic cleaner.

Yeah, why is that? Is it because it vaporizes some of it?

Dcav · Jan 31, 2012

Damn sure wish I bought the bigger cleaner now.

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