Help needed on cleaning cylinders

[2hawk]

You might try one of these (with care):

M-Pro 7
This is good stuff.

Also:
SLIP2000 Carbon Killer

Not quite the miracle product it's advertised as, but it will take it off. There is a caution about leaving it on blued finishes for too long, so DON'T.

Like the sage ol' Smith smith said to me once, "Shootin' guns is a dirty business."


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[wraco]

My 29-2 does it with hot loads. Hoppes will clean off the greyish powder burns and a little gun oil will shine it up.

Rod

 

[Gress]

Originally posted by gunpoorboy:
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[smith revolver cop]

Originally posted by Dale53:
Hey! Good people! These are revolvers! They are not the Mona Lisa. You shoot them and you get what has been described here. I shoot mine, and I shoot them a LOT. I live with it. You know, it doesn't hurt a bit, either...

I prefer stainless steel but I have a number of blued ones and I don't worry about the rings on ANY of them. When cleaning time comes, I use normal solvent (in my case it's Ed's Red) and what wipes off, does and what doesn't wipe off doesn't.

Welcome to the real world!

All said in fun, good people. All in fun..

Dale53

+1. They give a gun a little character. Kind of like the guys with big 4x4 trucks, that leave 'em muddy just so people know they're not just for show!

 

[Cruiser RN]

Hi.I use a product called Miricle Polishing Cloth which has Lemon or Coconut Oil as it's active ingredient.I just take out the cylinder and use the cloth followed with a clean dry cloth.It also works well at removing the marks on the entire gun and follow it up with breakthrough weapons cleaner.My stainless 640,model 63 and 64 stay preety clean using my method........God Bless......Mike

 

[AKsRule]

http://www.outdoorsuperstore.com/product.asp?prod=281519

 

[Springfield Bob]

I use 0000 steel wool damp with gun oil to remove the burnt powder residue. Just don't overdue it.

Originally posted by gunpoorboy:
I just purchased a new S&W Classic Model 29. Shortly before that I purchased a new 7 shot .357 Night Guard. Between the two I have close to $2000 invested. After shooting both of these guns I see that there are powder burns at the end of each cylinder/cartridege hole. I sent my .357 back to S&W and the Smith called me and said that this was a powder burn and could not be cleaned off the cylinder. Both of my guns have these powder burns. Has anyone else had this problem and do they know how to get these marks off the cylinders? The smith told me he could give me a new cylinder but the same would happend the first time I fired it. I find it hard to believe that S&W would sell you a $1000 gun that the paint burns after the first shooting. What am I over looking here. Please--someone help me.

 

[jsbethel]

Blitz cloth works wonders on stainless revolvers with a minimum of effort. It takes care of those cylinder rings easily.

 

[stevieboy]

With a stainless revolver, a bronze brush, solvent, and elbow grease is all that's needed to take away the stains. Mine look pristine after about 10 minutes of hard work.

It's a very different story with blued guns. A bronze brush will quickly remove the blueing. I find that I can get blued surfaces quite clean (not pristine, but certainly acceptably clean) using the following method: First, I take off the heavy surface dirt with Birchwood Casey Gun scrubber on a clean patch. That'll take up 2/3 of the gunk. After that, I carefully and thoroughly wipe everything down with a Pro Shot metal removing cloth (available at Brownell's). That'll get rid of about 90% of what's left. I've learned to live with the faint stains that remain.

 

[RON in PA]

Thumbs up to Dale53's reply.