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Offline leserz

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do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« on: June 12, 2010, 09:17:16 AM »
 do you buy commercial cleaning patches or do you cut your own ? just bought hoppe'd patches pack of 50 $1.49 + 9 % tax been looking at the cost of patches.  i think i can buy fine silk from the orient cheaper than patches . so any one buy there own cloth by the yard and cut your own or use old T shirts ?

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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2010, 12:12:59 PM »
The wife is a quilting nut. I have her save flannel that I can use. She has a rotary cutter and straight edges and can whip out a hundred in a few minutes time. The cheaper flannels are usually the right thickness, a yard of W*M flannel is about $3.99  54" x 36" is a bunch of patches.  I'll be honest I hate t-shirt 's for patches they make a good enough rag but not so much for patches.
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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2010, 12:30:07 PM »
I use old cotton t-shirts and underware. 

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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2010, 02:20:22 PM »
 thanks i think the next time im around any place that sells fabric going to try to cut my own .

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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2010, 02:50:16 PM »
I have put dirty patches in a cloth bag and wash them and use them over and over until they wear out.  I've bought patches, but use the old underwear for the real dirty cleaning first. 

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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2010, 03:13:05 PM »
I use old clothes,towels ect. for gun cleaning and grease rags in the shop.
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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2010, 05:32:27 PM »
My wife will discard a pair of her cotton panties from time to time and I have found that material to be excellent patch material. I'm just careful not to have a pair out while cleaning when some of my friends drop by.  ;D

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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2010, 06:49:11 PM »
Foxfire this is about the time my daughters start yelling T M I (too much information). 
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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2010, 08:22:20 PM »
T-shirts, old sheets and flannel sewing scraps.  I just added a bunch of cotton T-Shirts to the rag bucket.
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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2010, 05:31:43 AM »
E.Q., Yea, I know how the younger females of our species can be. I have helped raise two step-daughters and a granddaughter buy myself. They can be a challenge.

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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2010, 12:07:36 PM »
I make do with whats at hand, if I have patches I use them or whats handy.
I had thought I had a squeeky clean bore but it still had copper fouling streaks that could be seen at the muzzle so I made a temporary home made electro bore cleaner from a D-cell flash light, steel rod, electrical tape, rubber plug, ammonia cleaner, couple lengths of old speaker wire.
All sorts of nasty brownish/black froth boiled out the muzzle, the steel rod was throughly coated with the nasty slime.

It dident tighten the groups that much but the bore allot cleaner in ther now.

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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2010, 05:20:57 PM »
I use the blue paper towels like  they sell in the auto parts stores. They hold up to jags with a tight enough fit for me. It doesn't take long to cut enough of the right size for a cleaning session. Not my idea, I read it on another forum and gave it a try.

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Re: do uou make your own cleaning patches ?
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2010, 10:04:08 AM »
I just cut old t shirts up when I am bored and watching tv. I bought a big pack of them about a year ago and that is all they were made of so I figured what the heck I will just cut my own. Dale
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