Muzzle crown protector

[earplug]

I use a electric drill for cleaning my revolvers, have always worried about the cleaning rod messing up the muzzle's crown.
Had a brain fart and the simple fix is to slip a plastic soda straw over the rod.

 

[rxraptor02]

or buy a carbon or plastic coated rod.
a drill? How gummed up and dirty do your revolvers get?

 

[earplug]

I shoot three or four revolvers about four times a week.
I have other things to do then churn butter by hand.

 

[Jst1mr]

A plastic-coated rod impregnated with grit and spun in a drill should be a fine way of increasing the caliber of any revolver...

 

[woodsltc]

Your guns --- do what you want with them.

Because of the potential of damaging the rifleing and the crown by using a drill to clean with --- I would never allow my guns to be cleaned that way!

Don

 

[s4s4u]

I've often used a drill and brush to clean the chambers in the cylinder of stupborn deposits but would not even consider running it through the bore. I'd think it would be counterproductive conidering the lands and grooves of the rifling. A few passes with the boresnake is all it takes, unless you are shooting some real nasty stuff.

 

[earplug]

Take a bit of that green Scotch pad scrubbing pad and wrap it around a old brass cleaning brush.
You can do the cylinder and forcing cone real easy with the drill.
I don't mess with the barrel much.

 

[rcmodel]

I've often used a drill and brush to clean the chambers in the cylinder of stupborn deposits but would not even consider running it through the bore.

+1000
Use the drill & an oversize bore brush to clean the chambers.
I do the same thing and have for about 40 years. That is the way many gunsmiths do it too.

But it is counter-productive to use it in the barrel because the brush is spinning one way, and the rifling is going the other way.

Use a rod & brush for the bore.

rcmodel

 

[heavyshooter]

"A plastic-coated rod impregnated with grit and spun in a drill should be a fine way of increasing the caliber of any revolver..." -- Jst1mr

"Because of the potential of damaging the rifleing and the crown by using a drill to clean with --- I would never allow my guns to be cleaned that way!" -- woodsltc


My thoughts exactly. I am not careful enough to avoid a serious mistake with a drill. I would end up having a safe full of hand sized shotguns. But they're your guns. If it works for you, then run with it.

 

[earplug]

Really has anyone thought that the straw is not fastened to the spinning shaft, so it does not rub, it just spins loose and protect steel on steel contact.

 

[s4s4u]

Still doesn't make sense to spin a brush across the lands and grooves of the rifling. It is like snow drifting across a fence, it never touches the leeward side of the fence. Far better served to work with the grain.

 

[Zeede]

I've used a drill to clean my shotgun chokes, or the chamber, but that is a smoothbore. That and it's 12 gauge, so I'd really have to do something wrong to contact the sides of the barrel w/ anything other than the bronze bristles.

Cameron

 

[Al Thompson]

earplug, thanks for the tip. I too like using a drill for the chambers, quick brush for the barrel. I had not thought about a straw.

 

[jjohnson]

Bore Scraping - the BEST tool!

Oh, man, I'm going to have to ask Brownell's for a commission.

If you're generating enough bore crud to even want to use a drill, have a look at the Lewis Lead Remover that Brownell's sells for a couple bucks.

It was made to do this job - and does it well. Uses bronze screen and rips lead and crud out in one pass without damaging anything. It's probably the very best tool I've ever seen for any sort of cleaning task. Invest the price of a box of shells and make yourself happy for the rest of your life.

 

[rcmodel]

Still doesn't make sense to spin a brush across the lands and grooves of the rifling.

+1,000!

Think about it guys.

Spin a brush in the chambers, but the dang thing needs to go back & forth, not round & round, to clean the rifling properly!

rcmodel