So I spent the day in the gun/reloading room today. Subject to interpretation didn't get it set up fully before surgery last Thursday. But spent the day breaking down and deep cleaning a few of my firearms. So here is my question what is your favorite cleaning tool. Mine is a plague scraper. Any one have a good source for professional dental tools not Amazon. Let me know what you use the most
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I bought a “wood carving” set and a pic set at harbor freight. Those along with the Real Avid MSR scraper and it’s more than enough.
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old nylon brush that came with one of my first "master gun cleaning kit"
what ever solvent my fingers touch first and some rags.
jags and patches
bought something like this 30 plus years ago but it had dual end brushes, still have the brushes the rest was junk.
I updated my cleaning rods to once piece
www.brownells.com
what ever cleaning solutions are available when I run out.
I have grown to like foaming bore cleaners. Gun slick was my favorite for years but they are gone
Right now Im using Wipe Out ---its ok. Not as good as gunslick was on the heavy fouled rifles.
lots of patches
what ever solvent my fingers touch first and some rags.
jags and patches
bought something like this 30 plus years ago but it had dual end brushes, still have the brushes the rest was junk.
I updated my cleaning rods to once piece
DELUXE CARBON FIBER CLEANING ROD | Brownells
Carbon fiber is well-suited to the tough tasks assigned to cleaning rods. It combines the best features of stainless steel and coated cleaning rods, then adds valuable properties of its own. Carbon fiber can't scratch your bore like stainless stee...
www.brownells.com
what ever cleaning solutions are available when I run out.
I have grown to like foaming bore cleaners. Gun slick was my favorite for years but they are gone
Right now Im using Wipe Out ---its ok. Not as good as gunslick was on the heavy fouled rifles.
lots of patches
FrankNA
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I’ve got a dental tool cleaning kit I picked up along the way. It’s got just about every type of plaque removal/gun cleaning tool you’d ever need! It was cheap $$$ too!
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Picks/scrapers are a must. Got sick of the cheap ones I had breaking in half found a HD plastic set at local auto parts place and so far they are really good for like 10 bucks. I use them everytime I clean something.
AHM
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Stocking enough patches (of the proper size)
so that there's not the slightest temptation
to skinflint on them is nice.
Of the two kinds of patch, I went with the kind that doesn't leave lint.
Not by doing an A/B comparison - just on first principles.
From talking to the nice Patch Lady at the Marlboro show.
I fergit what the benefit is of the lint-y kind. YMMV.
AHM
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Thanks for reminding me.
In college they had these monster Q-Tips with wicked long wooden shafts.
Nowadays they're only used for taking biological samples from Cuomo family noses,
but back then they were for cleaning magtape drives with freon solution (
![[shocked]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/007.gif "Shocked [shocked]")
) .Fast forward a few decades, I'm Q-Tipping this-or-that Ruger
when I suddenly flash on the good old days.
Surf the intarwebs and...they're still a thing, and Grainger has them!
(The pictured ziploc is a 100-pack; the white-box contains 10 100-packs).
Take a 5-minute detour on the way to the next NEAR-Fest,
and I'm the Q-Tip King of Deerfield.
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