Steam cleaning SKS after corrosive

Patch dabbed with soapy water solution is all you need to clean corrosive salts from barrel and gas port. If barrel is chrome lined it is impervious to corrosion, then all you need is just to clean gas port and piston properly. Actual wiping motion from the patch creates suds with soap and water and that is what cleans objects. Just Flushing with boiling water without actually passing a patch through barrel may not get rid of carbon and salt from grooves or gas port. Again it takes soap and water to clean salt from your car during winter at the car wash. Why is it any different with salt and carbon filled barrel and gas piston?
 
I have been steam cleaning my SVT40 for a long time,works really well,and no reason to do it right at the range.
Wait till you get home,barrel won't rust that quick !
 
Hoppes #9, cleaning swabs, bore brush/jag, small toothbrush, pipe cleaners are all you really need. Oh and a small amount of elbow grease with some love and attention (a beer doesn't hurt either).
Hopes 9 is designed to remove corrosive salts. Use the pipe cleaner and solvent or a fine tubing brush to clean the gas port and the firing pin channel in the bolt. Scrub the various other areas with the solvent and small tooth brush ( I get mine for the vet). This advise also applies to all other firearms so the proper cleaning regiment is really the same. No need to use boiling water, pee down the bore, dip in hot water, windex etc. Clean properly and thoroughly with a gun solvent, wipe clean then apply gun oil. I have been doing this for 5 years and not a speck of corrosion.
 
SigWig said:
^some unfortunatly are missled to think that the ammonia in windex dissolves the salts. It is actually the water in the windex that does the work. It works but no better then water.
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this. always makes me laugh when people suggest windex. Like you said it does work but no better than plain hot water. also pouring water through the gun at the range is way over kill. sometimes I even wait a day to clean my sks. no rust what so ever.
 
I wait till i get home,go to garage, Spray some windex in chamber, down barrel, then use my steam shark. I get a good shot of really hot water first then steam. Works great. Then off to gun room to finish cleaning rifles with whatever solvents or oil i decide on.
 
Alot of people have there ways. Most are time consuming.

Best way, grab a can of brake cleaner. Brake kleen is the best because it has the most pressure.
Feild strip it, blast the parts, blast the barrel, let it evaporate (evaporates very quick) Oil and assemble.
 
C18cz858 said:
Alot of people have there ways. Most are time consuming.

Best way, grab a can of brake cleaner. Brake kleen is the best because it has the most pressure.
Feild strip it, blast the parts, blast the barrel, let it evaporate (evaporates very quick) Oil and assemble.
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Yep, that is a way, I bet Sergei jerkinov did that back in the motherland way back when! All kidding aside, it may or may not work for a while, depending on where a person lives and humidity, but I am willing to bet there are still salt deposites in that rifle, plus the cost of brake cleaner, or a couple litres of hot water!
 
bobdbldr said:
Yep, that is a way, I bet Sergei jerkinov did that back in the motherland way back when! All kidding aside, it may or may not work for a while, depending on where a person lives and humidity, but I am willing to bet there are still salt deposites in that rifle, plus the cost of brake cleaner, or a couple litres of hot water!
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Definitely no salt deposits left at all, I would be willing to bet anyway.
The stuff strips paint, primer residue is no issue.

Yeah I guess you got to pay for it, but its easy.
I use it all the time so I always have it in stock
 
I just boil a big kettle of water on the stove and pour it down barrel,gas block and bolt. I'm surprised how much crud flows from the barrel for the first little bit. Water evaporates quickly and cleanup is a snap.
 
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