Tipton / Battenfeld Technologies Inc

[hornady]

For Christmas My wife bought me 4 Tipton cleaning rods. They are a very good one-piece cleaning rod, she bought two for rifle and two for pistol. The one Rifle rod the 22-26 caliber 36 inch rod was a little defective. I tried to clean my Mini-14 with it and the brass tip would not fit down the barrel.

I e-mailed Tipton which is in the Battenfeld group, I did not here back from them for a couple days. Thinking this was the end of it, I checked and the  brass tip on the rod looked as though it had been slightly crushed. I filed the tip and was able to get a brush  screwed into the Rod. And it seemed to be OK.

I then received an e-mail back from Battenfeld saying they would be sending me a new rod if I sent them my address, I e-mailed them back saying that I had filed and polished the tip and the rod is working fine now.

I received a reply back saying they apologize for any inconvenience and wanted my home address, as they would still be sending a replacement rod.

Tipton Rods are more expensive than some cleaning rods but its good to know they stand behind their products 110%.

[gunnut69]

I believe brass rods are a mistake. The softer brass will embed hard pieces of abrasive material and act as a lap. Quite capable of bore damage. Polished steel (stainless) is best and won't deform as easy as brass..

[quickdtoo]

All of my Tipton rods are carbon fiber, just the tip is brass which is threaded 8-32, darn good rods, nice to hear they have good customer service.

Tim

[gunnut69]

Carbon fiber is carbon threads held together with and suspended in a matrix of resin. The resin will provide the point for the abrasive to embed. They are very rigid but still can produce a danger of lapping damage.  When to materials are brought together with abrasives introduced between them the harder material will be damaged.

[Keith L]

I agree with Gunnut.  All my cleaning rods are polished stainless steel, and I use guides.

[charles p]

I use Dewey rods.