I seen an internet artical which shows cleaning your revolver with a brass brush. The artical showed pictures of using the brass brush on the crown, ejector, and cylinder. My question is: Would the brass brush effect the finish?
Cleaning revolver with brass brush
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I seen an internet artical which shows cleaning your revolver with a brass brush. The artical showed pictures of using the brass brush on the crown, ejector, and cylinder. My question is: Would the brass brush effect the finish?
Pisgah
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Not in the least.
On a blued gun some brass may be deposited on the blued steel. It can be removed with a rag and some cold blue. I would limit the brass brush use to only the front and rear of the cylinder and the inside of the frame where it is really fouled. Everything else should come off with a rag and your favorite solvent. I use an M 16 nylon brush (or an old toothbrush)for everything but the bore and chambers. Any type of metal brush is probably more aggressive than is necessary.
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What revolver? I would never let any kind of metal brush touch a blue finish. Stainless would not be such a worry, but I honestly don't use metal brushes on guns anymore in the bore or anywhere else. There is just no need and I have better ways to clean them.
I use a stiff bristle nylon brush and chrome polish to take the hard burned carbon off the front of the cylinders. I use the same on the burns on the frame on SS guns, but I don't on blue. The carbon off cloths are pretty good for blue cleaning. I use nylon bore brushes and low abrasion polish to clean the bore on the rare occasions I do want it 100% clean. Most of the time, a patch and Hoppe's 9 is all the bore gets.
In 1970 LAPD instruction was to mash a brass, 12 AWG bore brush in a vise and use that to clean the cylinder face and around the barrel throat. After enough cleanings it will, and did, remove all bluing from the face of the cylinder on my issue Model 14.
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I just bought a model 19 and put a few rounds down range yesterday. I was wondering myself what to use to clean this blued beauty ie which solvent? This is my first wheel gun and it is a shooter!
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Hoppes #9 is my favorite. Shooter's choice is also very good. MPro 7 is odorless if that is an issue, but I think it is too expensive and doesn't clean as well as the two above.
