Carbon Gone on Front of Handgun Cylinders

[CaptainMal]

Yeah... It's another CLR observation. Sick at home lately and I was looking at the front of my old stainless Smith "Special". No carbon stains. Been the past month in NC and Tennessee, where I shot my mid-80's Smith Model 63 22 lr. The front of that cylinder was badly carbon stained. Rousted enough energy (got Covid in NC last week) up to soak a bit of a rag in CLR and whipe that cylinder front off. Added a later lightweight Smith to the picture as it was next to me. Look how a light application of CLR cleans off old and hard carbon stains on the front of the cylinders.


With a little effort you can get a perfectly, "like new", clean. Now DON'T EVEN THINK about trying this on a blued gun. This only works for stainless guns. Blued carbon- steel guns will have the finish ruined immediately, maybe faster than that.

 

[Rick in Oregon]

Good tip. I'll have to give that a try, as I'm about out of the old " lead wipe away" cloth that also worked well, but seems to be unobtainum now.

Hope you beat the WuFlu and heal up well. I hear it's not fun at all.

 

[K9TXS]

Never Dull is also another good product. There's a big wad of cotton in the can soaked in something. Tear off as little as you need.

 

[K22]

Thanks for the tip - mine are badly stained - will try your remedy as soon as I get some CRL.

I watched a video by Erik Cortina, and he uses it on his SS rifle barrel to remove carbon. Claims it's really does it quick and easy. However, I am someone reluctant to try it on a rifle bore.

 

[DGP4]

Thanks for the tip!. I have had good results removing carbon rings in the bore with CLR. Birchwood Casey Lead Remover Cloth also works great to remove that carbon on the cylinder and is safe for blued revolvers.

 

[DShortt]

Never Dull is also another good product. There's a big wad of cotton in the can soaked in something. Tear off as little as you need.

Good stuff! I've used it on brass for years.

 

[JSH]

My FA 357,41 and 44 all have said rings. I just figured that came with using them. Have a couple of Ruger’s deserving of the same badge of honor.

 

[spudgun]

Yes, as he said "DON'T USE IT ON BLUE OR STEEL GUNS", but if you want to remove the bluing/rust on a gun you can soak it in CLR. It will dissolve the bluing and rust so you can re-blue or refinish the gun.

 

[CaptainMal]

Hope you beat the WuFlu and heal up well. I hear it's not fun at all.

You heard right. Three full days plus my throat was in extreme pain. Hideous to just sip water. Pills knocked that out to just plain sore. Lost 18 lbs in 4 days. Wife lost 12 lbs in 3 days. Drinking is desired, eating hardly optional.

I sometimes use a plastic bore brush to add a little aggression to corners and edges of gun parts that need more CLR magic.

 

[Jdne5b]

Boretech c4 works for this as well. I soak my titanium comp in it and it makes the carbon soft enough to scrape out.

 

[paperpuncher]

Good tip. I'll have to give that a try, as I'm about out of the old " lead wipe away" cloth that also worked well, but seems to be unobtainum now.

Hope you beat the WuFlu and heal up well. I hear it's not fun at all.

I wonder if this is the same stuff
https://www.amazon.com/Kleenbore-Gun-Care-Lead-Cloth/dp/B002IEIDG4
Birchwood casey has a similar product as well, I used the original stuff back in the day It worked good on those black cylinder stains

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

Thanks for the tip - mine are badly stained - will try your remedy as soon as I get some CRL.

I watched a video by Erik Cortina, and he uses it on his SS rifle barrel to remove carbon. Claims it's really does it quick and easy. However, I am someone reluctant to try it on a rifle bore.

I have been using CLR since Primal Rights came out with their article on barrel cleaning in 2018 or 2019.
Try it you wont be disappointed

 

[expiper]

thanks for the cleaning tip--its good to see you feeling like doing things and getting better--roger

 

[CaptainMal]

Boretech c4 works for this as well. I soak my titanium comp in it and it makes the carbon soft enough to scrape out.

On my light gun competition rifles I have tuner brakes. After shooting I pour some CLR into a thin container just large enough to allow the brake part of the tuner brake to sit in the CLR. After maybe a couple hours and no agitation, I remove the tuner and see carbon on the bottom of the container.

Carefully pour the clean CLR in the container back in the CLR bottle and dump out the rest with the carbon. Put the tuner-brake under a running faucet and look. All the slots/holes and inside of that brake are cleaned of carbon with no scrubbing or scraping.

 

[6MMsteve]

I drop my glock barrels in a tube of FreeAll and Hoppes 70/30 3 days pull it out patch it.....the barrel has nothing but lands n grooves clean....I need to scope one and take a pic, I was amazed it was just a experiment and it worked far beyond my expectations

 

[Chaotik]

Thanks for the tip, Larry.

Hope you and your wife have recovered from covid.

 

[Steel Mover]

Had a shooter use a gun in a match bet, 3 bills, cleaned his FA barrel with CLR the night before.....took near 500 rounds to get it to shoot match quality groups again, lost the bet, also. You can clean most anything with CLR but not the bore.

 

[JayHHI6818]

I use C4 for removing carbon on Freedom Arms 44 Mag and stainless 686

 

[expiper]

how are you doing--hope your over the bug--roger