HELP.....Dropped it....

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I have a MP40, and live out in the sticks. Yesterday we were shooting it, and I let my friend shoot it for and Mr. Butterfingers dropped it in the sand. I spent about an hour cleaning it yesterday and spent another two hours cleaning it today, but still hear sand and grit in there anytime you move anything on it.

Ideas, Suggestions???
 
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I have a MP40, and live out in the sticks. Yesterday we were shooting it, and I let my friend shoot it for and Mr. Butterfingers dropped it in the sand. I spent about an hour cleaning it yesterday and spent another two hours cleaning it today, but still hear sand and grit in there anytime you move anything on it.

Ideas, Suggestions???
 
You need to clean it better. Sounds like it would need a detail strip to make sure you get at all the stuff.
 
A detail strip and clean would be best, but you can do almost as well by rinsing it out in solvent, kerosene, or diesel fuel. Just slosh on the solvent, let it lay in a pan, and keep pouring it into the works. Cycle the action, and let the fluid rinse out the foreign matter. Blow out with compressed air if you have it, or simply squirt in some spray lubricant and wipe off the drippings. Good as new.
 
If you wash it in solvent, beware as it may strip the paint off the sights or anywhere else it has paint.
 
strip it down and spray everything with birchwood casey "gun scrubber". hold the parts at different angles and just let the stuff run out. it usually takes everything with it.
 
While a detail strip will remove all the sand, it may not be necessary.

1. Make sure the pistol is unloaded, have someone else check behind you on this.

2. Field strip the piece, separating the parts of the slide assembly: recoil spring, barrel and slide.

3. Clean the parts of the slide assembly. If necessary, pull the striker and clean it and the striker tunnel (probably not necessary).

4. Take the pistol frame and slosh it around in a bucket of hot soapy water until you don't feel grit when you stroke the trigger. Let the frame assembly dry, lubricate as necessary (WD-40 will drive out any remaining water, but isn't a suitable firearms lubricant.)

If you know someone with an air compressor, blowing the sand out of the frame with air is OK if you wear suitable eye protection. Be absolutely sure you don't disturb the fiber plug in the trigger return spring. You'll see the spring attached to the back of the trigger.

5. Properly lubricate all parts and reassemble.
 
Thank you all for your help.

WR Moore,
That sounds like what I will do.... My problem seems to be the sand in the coils of the recoil spring.

I have cleaned the barrel and slide, and used about an entire can of gun scrubber, but still hear sand when the slide moves back and fourth...

I will try the bucket of soapy water...I just didnt know weather or not that was an option....
 
Since you're in Florida you could use a garden hose to flush the gun as well, and then use a water dispersing agent like CLP to coat the metal parts. Followed by compressed air and maybe some time in the sun. You should field strip it to facilitate cleaning.
 
But not get water on the slide or the barrel and recoil spring, right??

Or can that all get wet as well?
 
when i was in the service we always used a water hose with a spray nozzle on our m16s and .45s.
 

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