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Re: Any quick soak method around to clean SA revolvers?
« Reply #30 on: August 23, 2011, 07:46:06 AM »
A can of KROIL will clean a gun as well as anything else if you soak it well and use a brush .
The problem is the brush, the comp on the gun does not make it easy to get a brush in and the ports are about .4 wide so not a lot of tools get in there, OH and the comp is machined aluminium  so I have to worry about making now grooves and holes.

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Re: Any quick soak method around to clean SA revolvers?
« Reply #31 on: August 23, 2011, 07:53:44 AM »
pipe cleraners and a spray can of kroil
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Re: Any quick soak method around to clean SA revolvers?
« Reply #32 on: August 23, 2011, 07:55:39 AM »
I would be ever so careful putting alum parts in any bulk cleaner .
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Re: Any quick soak method around to clean SA revolvers?
« Reply #33 on: August 23, 2011, 01:23:30 PM »
I would be ever so careful putting alum parts in any bulk cleaner .
So far no problems with the gun scrubber i use.  I spray it in a steel pan and let it soak while cleaining the other parts.

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Re: Any quick soak method around to clean SA revolvers?
« Reply #34 on: August 24, 2011, 12:27:06 PM »
I would not have any problem taking a single action all apart and putting it in a bath of some kind.  I just can't see taking the grips off and dropping it in there....?   Maybe if somebody explained to me exactly what kind of solution it is and what it does inside the frame and how it comes out of there, or evaporates, and what's left behind after that inside the frame, I'd be more open to it.  I can break down a single action all way and clean inside the frame and all the parts including taking off the loading gate, spring and plunger, and have it all back together again in less than an hour while watching the TV on my work bench.  Now I would not mind putting all the parts into a bath and taking them out later either.  But dropping a unassembled single action into a a bath, I have to know more.  Bothers me a little bit.  So I'm asking, what kind of solution can you just drop an unassembled gun into? 

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Re: Any quick soak method around to clean SA revolvers?
« Reply #35 on: September 11, 2011, 04:53:30 PM »
Well Swampman, I don't know what to say, your logic escapes me. How is a cloth patch and some breakfree going to wear out steel? I don't claim to know everything but I clean my firearms everytime I shoot them, and have for 44 years of shooting. And guess what? They all shoot just fine. Once in a while I might even use a brass brush on bores. I'm 68 years old so I guess I'll keep cleaning, they should last me until I pass away. Oh yeah, once a month if I have not fired something I rub it down with a patch lightly oiled with Royal Purple Gun Oil and then run it down the bore. I have 40 firearms so every Saturday I do ten. Works for me. God Bless.

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Re: Any quick soak method around to clean SA revolvers?
« Reply #36 on: September 12, 2011, 12:32:14 AM »
That's great but unnecessary except for perhaps wiping the outside down with an oily patch after shooting.  Cleaning ruins a lot of guns.
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