Cleaning Your CZ Extractor

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bountyh

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I must admit my CZ85 will pull a stovepipe jam occasionally (maybe once in 300?) so I figured I'd clean behind the extractor and polish the slide back face a bit. Used a popsicle stick narrowed (using diag cutters) and thinned a bit (sandpaper). Now I just wrap a small piece of #600 paper around the tip of the stick and lightly polish across the face and behind the extractor. A toothbrush and some acetone does the rest.
 
You shouldn't have to use sandpaper

Shot of Brake Cleaner or just solvent on a small toothbrush. And hold the slide muzzle down so the solvent with the gunk in it flows AWAY from the internal workings of the slide.

Regards,

Ledbetter
 
I agree. That was the last part of the cleaning process I referred to. And by the way: I put the long tube on my can of brake cleaner, press it up to the firing pin hole, and hose it until clean solvent runs downward out of the back of the slide.
 
Why not drift the extractor pivot pin out and clean the whole deal and two parts? It also gives you an opportunity to inspect the extractor spring and so forth.
 
Just laziness and general reluctance to bang on a gun that's shot perfectly since I bought it. I only work on guns when they have a problem. Cleaning under the extractor doesn't motivate me enough.
 
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