mactroneng
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- SW Ontario
I'm relatively new to the handgun/revolver game (a little more than a year) despite having my RPAL for over five years.
In the past six months I've acquired both a S&W 686 and 500. I love the look of the stainless steel but keeping the cylinder faces clean isn't easy, nor is getting into some of the tight spaces (ex. between barrel and top strap). Shortly after acquiring the 686 I bought a lead cloth off Amazon and that has helped immensely. Recently, after seeing some pictures of the sweet looking polished SS guns I picked up some Mother's Mag Polish. Now that I'm looking into this more seriously I have some questions:
1) How clean do you guys (or people in general) usually keep SS revolvers? Do you aim to get all the carbon off the cylinder face and around the small spaces around the barrel/top strap or just do the best you can and just accept it?
2) If you are being particularly meticulous, do you use dental picks or something similar? I feel like even with the amount of pressure I have to used with a lead cloth that I'd break or bend something like that (or worse, slip and gouge the steel on the gun).
3) For those of you who use Mothers (or similar), do you do a thorough clean first then polish (ex. use a lead cloth to get all the carbon off first) or will the polish remove a bunch of that? And I assume that once polished, you only touch up affected areas after firing?
Thanks!
In the past six months I've acquired both a S&W 686 and 500. I love the look of the stainless steel but keeping the cylinder faces clean isn't easy, nor is getting into some of the tight spaces (ex. between barrel and top strap). Shortly after acquiring the 686 I bought a lead cloth off Amazon and that has helped immensely. Recently, after seeing some pictures of the sweet looking polished SS guns I picked up some Mother's Mag Polish. Now that I'm looking into this more seriously I have some questions:
1) How clean do you guys (or people in general) usually keep SS revolvers? Do you aim to get all the carbon off the cylinder face and around the small spaces around the barrel/top strap or just do the best you can and just accept it?
2) If you are being particularly meticulous, do you use dental picks or something similar? I feel like even with the amount of pressure I have to used with a lead cloth that I'd break or bend something like that (or worse, slip and gouge the steel on the gun).
3) For those of you who use Mothers (or similar), do you do a thorough clean first then polish (ex. use a lead cloth to get all the carbon off first) or will the polish remove a bunch of that? And I assume that once polished, you only touch up affected areas after firing?
Thanks!
