Do you need to clean an SKS? YES, pics.

No problem using water, just make it HOT, i.e. boil the kettle and use just below boiling water. This will dissolve the salts, but evaporate quickly because it is so hot. You can also pick up a can of air if you don't have an air compressor. You can buy them at Business Depot or in bulk at costco.

Afterwards, clean normally with your favourite powder solvent or CLP, and oil with your favourite iol (or CLP).
 
I use windex to get rid of the corrosive salts and then whatever bore cleaner is at the front of my gun shelf. No problems thus far.
 
DarceMegarce said:
Hoppes solvent seems to work but I was told by a gunsmith that it won't remove the salts, so I wind up using a ton of it. With CLP do you just have to spray and wipe everything down and that's it? I'd rather not use water at all.
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It says right on the Hoppes #9 bottle: "Removes corrosive primer fouling and residue."
 
As soon as I saw those pics I went straight downstairs and cleaned my new "Death of the LGR comemorative" SKS which had been sitting in the safe for about an hour after coming back from the range for it's inaugural shoot. Don't want anything like that to happen to mine!
 
scout3006 said:
X2 - I've used this for years with no problems.
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X3, all i ever do, with a coat of hopes #9 oil aswell at the end.
when my brother owned my SKS he fire like 2 boxes of surplus corrpsize ammo through it and put it away for about 3 months, the only damage to the gun is a little bit of pitting on the gas piston. I remembor reading that the whole "hot water cleaning" is what the military trained to do since that cleans the corrosive resedue out of the gun plus it cleans out all the mud and stuff that may have alsogot in it (after all its a military rifle, they would crawl in mud, dust, water, ext.) but since we dont do what the military does, all we need to do is use solvent to clean it.
 
I used mine to shoot my registration certs, got home sprayed windex on the gas parts, ran patches with it through the barrel, gaschamber, quick spray WD-40, wiped that off, Hoppes on the barrel, wiped it all down and then oiled everything. I use a light coating of oil on the gas system. I never shoot enough for this to be a problem and it's way easier to wipe oil off then to remove rust.
 
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