SKS cleaning tool? How to?

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My cleaning kit came with what looks kinda like a drill bit, but its free to rotate.

Im assuming this is what I put the cleaning patches over, to run down the barrel?


First time cleaning a gun, only shot 15 rounds of corrosive through it. Just to try it out at a buddy's place.


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Its for patches, and the funny shaped cap of the cleaning kit is a rod guide to protect the crown of the barrel when cleaning from the muzzle end. Just push it on and give 1/2 twist.
 
Less patch is better, especially if you aren't used to the force required and resistence in a barrel. It is ok to cut them ...
 
Thanks guys!

fiddler, thanks dude, that thing had me stumped for days as to what it was for. I knew if had the hole in the top and the two legs for a reason, i just could not figure out why.

maple, thanks for the heads up. Yeah, my dad was a spray it up with G96 and call it good kinda gun cleaner... (or what I saw anyway)


I will give credit to them Russians. The hole gun can be disassembled with the use of the kit that comes stored in the stock, and possibly with a large rock laying around as a hammer to get the trigger assembly button pressed. I wish none military stuff was that simple.
 
I'll give you another hint: Pick up two more brushes, one .45cal, and a .22 cal. The .45 to scrub the chamber and the large part of the gas tube, and the .22 to get into the narrow part of the gas tube.

The chamber has to be spotless after using any corrosive surplus ammo. I usually put the .45 brush on the end of one small rod section and give it a dozen spins with my cordless drill.
 
fiddler said:
I'll give you another hint: Pick up two more brushes, one .45cal, and a .22 cal. The .45 to scrub the chamber and the large part of the gas tube, and the .22 to get into the narrow part of the gas tube.

The chamber has to be spotless after using any corrosive surplus ammo. I usually put the .45 brush on the end of one small rod section and give it a dozen spins with my cordless drill.
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I see what your saying, my chamber appears to be clean after soaking it in Windex and washing it with boiling water, possibly because I only put 15 round through it.

The patches actually seemed like a bit of a loose fit. By no means tight.

Couple Q's now

1. I ended up running the bore brush through it, from the end of the barrel. When i get it all the way in, pulling it back out seemed hard, like it had to force the brushes the other way. I had heard that this was bad.
Should I get a actual cleaning rod (longer) so that it goes all the way into the chamber, then pull it back out?

2. I remember everyone talking about boiling water. So that's what I used.
Ends up some of it ran on the one side of the stock, and turned some of the finish kinda white.
With the use of the cleaning solvent I was able to get rid of the ugly white, but a couple small spots are now missing the finish.
Future I will use warm water, not boiling.
But is there anything I can do to try to seal back up the missing finish?
 
fiddler said:
I'll give you another hint: Pick up two more brushes, one .45cal, and a .22 cal. The .45 to scrub the chamber and the large part of the gas tube, and the .22 to get into the narrow part of the gas tube.

The chamber has to be spotless after using any corrosive surplus ammo. I usually put the .45 brush on the end of one small rod section and give it a dozen spins with my cordless drill.
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The brush that came with the sks is for cleaning the chamber and gas tube. Its only a soft brush so its not really effective for the barrel even if manys peoples use it for bore cleaning. For my part i dont brush the bore, i only use patchs with a good bore cleaner like CR10, but its me........:)
 
When I'm done with my SKS, I field strip it, then point the barrel down into the tub. I pour about 2L or boiling water down the barrel, into the gas tube, everywhere. If it's just boiled, it'll evaporate right away.

Then I spray foaming gun cleaner over everything, run 4 wet patches down the barrel or so.

After that, I wipe down the bolt, bolt carrier, gas piston etc with a rag soaked in gun cleaner and reassemble.

It's good until the next time out. Takes about 20min max. No corrosion that I can see yet.
 
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