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[ORELCARSON]

Anybody have trouble cleaning the burnt power residue from the front of your revolver cylinder? especially stainless steel. I've been using flitz in a tube for quite a few years now. What I do is, rub a small dab in a piece of an old
T Shirt and then place a 6" x 1/2" scale on it so that it is tightly wraped around the end of the scale with the flitz on the flat side. Then rub it back & forth across the end of the cylinder rotating the cylinder as you rub. When the residue is gone, buff with more of the old T Shirt. It's amazing how it will look like new when you are done. This will not remove any metal but polish only.

 

[Nathan]

....but it will be there the next time you shoot it...right?

Good idea though, thanks.

 

[feets]

I grab a Lead Away cloth, cut off a little piece, and wipe the residue off the cylinder. It looks like new in just a few minutes.


A coworker brought me his Super Redhawk in 44 Magnum for a little trigger work. It's round count is approaching 1,000. When I commented on the burns he said he had scrubbed it with Hoppes #9.

The burns were on there pretty hard and would not get your fingers dirty when handling the cylinder.

I cut off a thumbnail sized piece of the Lead Away cloth and it looked like this four minutes later:

It works back here too:

Might have to see how it works under thumbnails.

I laid a piece of Lead Away on the forcing cone and scrubbed on it with an old toothbrush. After a minute or so this is what I had:

In all, I spent less than 10 minutes cleaning the gun with my fingers, an old toothbrush, and a Lead Away cloth.

If you run a lot of lead try putting a piece of Lead Away over a tight fitting jag and run it through your bore. Even after traditional cleaning methods it will probably pull lead from the bore.