Stainless revolver cleaning

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What are you guys using (mines a gp100) to clean the carbon burn around the end of the cylinder and around the barrel opening as well as the first part of the barrel? I have used every product I have and It's not going well. (Wipe out, Hoppes elite, G96) Not a fan of harmful cleaners like CR-10 so Is there a product out there or is it really just more soaking and scrubbing? Seen an Otis carbon cleaner at wholesale the other day is that the ticket?

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Jason
 
The quicker you clean it the better.
Some people use a polish but personally I just leave the ends of the cylinder blackened. I wipe it down and scrub a bit with a oiled rag and get the loose stuff off and that's it.
It's a pain to keep them shinny and I don't mind the look.
Think about all the blued revolver cylinders that are just as dirty but you can't tell.... It's not a functional problem and it just shows that you actualy shoot your gun!
 
Can-down said:
The quicker you clean it the better.
Some people use a polish but personally I just leave the ends of the cylinder blackened. I wipe it down and scrub a bit with a oiled rag and get the loose stuff off and that's it.
It's a pain to keep them shinny and I don't mind the look.
Think about all the blued revolver cylinders that are just as dirty but you can't tell.... It's not a functional problem and it just shows that you actualy shoot your gun!
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Good enough. Thanks for the reply.
 
There is a polishing cloth that guys swear by if you really want to keep it shiny but I can't remember the brand..... I'm sure someone will bring it up!
 
Also, you might want to buy a brass brush and gently scrub the burn marks off. It works great with a good solvent to get the burns off. Thats what I do on my S&W and it doesn't damage it.

Jayph said:
What are you guys using (mines a gp100) to clean the carbon burn around the end of the cylinder and around the barrel opening as well as the first part of the barrel? I have used every product I have and It's not going well. (Wipe out, Hoppes elite, G96) Not a fan of harmful cleaners like CR-10 so Is there a product out there or is it really just more soaking and scrubbing? Seen an Otis carbon cleaner at wholesale the other day is that the ticket?

thanks

Jason
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I just leave the burnt end of the cylinder on my gp100 alone. My normal cleaners just dont work to remove the burn mark. I have read that a simple pencil eraser will work well to remove the carbon burns though.
 
I use a regular toothbrush and Hoppes solvent on mine. Anything that doesn't remove, I figure is fine to be left behind. I'm too lazy to get it spotless after every use, especially with the horrifically dirty reloads I'm using at the moment. You'd hardly know the gun was stainless after 100 rounds, and that's not just the cylinder face.
 
Treat the gun with Froglube paste. The barrel area will wipe away clean with a cloth, at least it does on my SS Vaquero. The front of the cylinder will need some elbow grease.I use Flitz.
 
I have been cutting off a small piece of the "Never-Dull" wadding that I purchased at Canadian Tire, at the rate that I have been using it I should not need to purchase another can for quite a few years.
It does not take very long and most of the black is taken off, the only spot that I didn't return to factory new was the cylinder face but the rest of the revolver looks good in a short time.
 
thenewbieglockguy said:
Also, you might want to buy a brass brush and gently scrub the burn marks off. It works great with a good solvent to get the burns off. Thats what I do on my S&W and it doesn't damage it.
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This is what I do. I'll try some of the other ideas though as sometimes it takes more than "gently scrubbing". As for some other folks suggestions to choose a blued revolver, some just aren't available that way. At least, I have not seen a 460V in anything other than stainless. I leave mine with the marks on it most of the time and every now and again I clean it off.
 
If your using your revolver regularly, relax and just clean with solvent to get the raised stuff off to prevent
potential binding if it builds up (It takes a lot of buildup Btw unless you have a very small cylinder gap) You could use "Mothers Mag"
polish available at Cdn Tire and elsewhere which will take it right off. There are lots of opinions as to whether anyone should polish the cylinder face
of a revolver because of the very minute amount of metal some folks think polishing removes. If you want to clean it up anyway though, the stuff works.
As far as it removing metal, don't worry about it at all. It will however remove bluing.
 
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