Cleaning the cylinder face?

[OLDVET]

The real trick is to address the issue after each range trip. Don't wait until after several trips when it has "caked up" and aged.

 

[Moonpie]

The real trick is to address the issue after each range trip. Don't wait until after several trips when it has "caked up" and aged.

This is what I do.
After each range trip apply some solvent to the face and allow it to soak for a while. Then wipe away with a clean cloth.
May take a couple of applications but it gets most of the fouling off.

 

[Jack Ryan]

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I love these they work great, on my stainless steel guns. If I remember right they recommend they not be used on blue guns.

Years ago when those cloths first came out there was a thread like this specifically talking about these cloths and I remember a guy mentioning he just rubbed the burns off the front of his cylinder with the pink eraser on the end of a pencil. I tried it and it worked pretty good, not as good as these cloths but pretty high up there over most other things I'd tried.

Not sure what it would do to a blue finish. I never tried it on one but I doubt it is any more hash that scraping it with a pocket knife.

 

[Byrd666]

Whatever happened to using a bit of Hoppes and a toothbrush?

 

[OLDVET]

Hoppes and one of my old toothbrushes works for me as well.

 

[DwnRange]

Flitz and an old toothbrush, wipe with a soft cloth.

 

[Tremors]

I use this stuff called Colonel Brassy. It works so well and so fast it made my Colt Python look new with in seconds.

 

[bluecollar1911]

Whatever happened to using a bit of Hoppes and a toothbrush?

Makes the toothbrush taste funny?

 

[Charlie]

Just buy extra cylinders and throw the fouled ones away!

 

[orbitup]

Just buy extra cylinders and throw the fouled ones away!

 

[Byrd666]

Makes the toothbrush taste funny?

What, you never used the new cherry flavored stuff. Goes great with Tide pods too.

 

[RevolverGuy]

Unless it touches the forcing cone. It's a permanent decoration. You can soak it in Hoppes #8. Other then that, mechanically you can't remove it without rubbing through or scratching the blue. If it was stainless, Flizt metal polish takes it right off.

I wouldn't worry about it unless it starts to touch the cone.

Agree. I scrub it with a bronze brush and maybe some solvent.

Trying to keep it completely clean seems like having your car detailed every time you drive it.