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Using graphite will remove those stubborn powder marks from your revolver cylinder face. A friend of mine told me to color in the marks using a pencil- marking it hard, then wipe it away to remove the powder marks. Will this work, anyone ever try it?
 
To clean the face of your cylinder if it is SS, use a scotch brite pad and some brasso. Do not try this method on a Blued cylinder. When your done it will shine like new, with very little elbow grease.

Tony

PS, Try A search on cleaning the cylinder face.
 

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I would never, never, clean the face of my cylinders with anything abrasive. Scotch brite and brasso is some of the most abrasive polish we used in the Marines to put a smooth finish on brass prior to starting to polish brass. I don't even use a pencil eraser.

Nothing abrasive because you want the face of the cylinder to remain flat and true with the end of the barrel! You will eventually and slowly increase the barrel-cylinder gap.

I use some stuff called NS 100 PT
made by
Brulin & company
Indianapolis, in 46206

It smells like orange juice and take the lead and powder flash of the face of both ss and blue guns with out messing the finish...
 
cleaning nickel plated revolver

whats the deal with the nickel plating? can you damage it by using brasso or some of he cleaning techniques talked about?
 
On my ss cylinders I use the eraser of an ordinary lead pencil to
remove the black stain. This works well without much "elbow grease".
 
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Seems to me that by the time you have removed enough metal to cause a significant change to your revolver's cylinder gap using Brasso or an eraser you would have to be as old as Yoda! I use Brasso to shine up stainless revolvers and to fully remove residue from the from the front of cylinder I use a lead removing cloth.
 
I have cleaned all my S.S revolver cylinder faces this way for many, many years. The cylinder gap is the still the same on all my S.S revolvers.
You just have to use common sense when using this method, don't put excessive pressure while scrubing.

Tony
 
I use a product by Rig called Lead Wipe. I tear off a small piece of the yellow impregnated cloth and wipe the front of the cylinder and the forcing cone and around it, on my stainless revolvers. It removes any lead and all powder residue. It gets rid of that nasty little discolored ring around the cylinder... Hey, that sounds like a commercial.. "get rid of that ring around the cylinder":D I honestly haven't bought a new one in years since it takes so little of the cloth to do the job. I haven't looked for it in my gun shops either, but I think it is still sold. I used to use another lead wipe called "Wipe Away".. it worked just as good. My two cents....
 
Easy Solution

You can easily remove the powder marks from your cylinder face by using Blue Wonder Gun Cleaner with a green Scotchbrite pad. It will take it off in about thrity seconds.

I hope this tip helps.
 
Lead Away

TBAUS
Has a very good suggestion. I also use the lead away or the lead wipe.
They are also work good as a patch to run inside your bore. Makes the inside of you bore look brand new.;) Lead away cloth is a fast safe way to clean your cylinder face and many other areas. As to your original question. I tried it and it did not work.


Tony
 
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