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Yamalube ring free for Bbl Carbon Removal?

One way I do it is to run a wet patch down the barrel. Then wet another patch and slide it in to where the carbon is in the throat area and leave it there over night. Then just push everything out. Otherwise I use a lot of the foaming bore cleaners. Fill the barrel up. Let it sit over night with the muzzle down on a old sock. Push it out the next day. Then do this 3-4 ties and everything will be gone with no scrubbing at all other then the one patch each time to push everything out.
 
tommeboy said:
One way I do it is to run a wet patch down the barrel. Then wet another patch and slide it in to where the carbon is in the throat area and leave it there over night. Then just push everything out. Otherwise I use a lot of the foaming bore cleaners. Fill the barrel up. Let it sit over night with the muzzle down on a old sock. Push it out the next day. Then do this 3-4 ties and everything will be gone with no scrubbing at all other then the one patch each time to push everything out.
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You will never ever get carbon out by soaking. Needs to be scrubbed out and never comes easy.
 
I soaked overnight and ran the brush through 50 times. It is removing carbon because it uncovered some copper
 
ChristianSilver said:
Good news, stay with it and do not let the memories of how difficult it is to get a carbon ring out fade away, lol…
Get it out before it starts. My last shot fired at a range is followed by a wet patch… so much less work..
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I really do believe that this is the key, not that I did that, but based on conversations, I would have had to do much less work if I had. If you think about it, case necks have told us the story for a long time. If we remove the powder fouling from case necks immediately after firing, it is a lot easier than if we wait and it sets up. I think that the powder fouling in the bore acts exactly the same way.
 
rebs said:
I soaked overnight and ran the brush through 50 times. It is removing carbon because it uncovered some copper
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Just use Iosso/Flitz bore cleaner. It will go MUCH faster.
And, honestly, on a hard carbon ring I don't think soaking it makes any difference. At least not when I've tried like Free All and top end cleaners.
You are not going to damage the barrel with very mild abrasives like Iosso/Flitz bore cleaner.
I'm not mentioning JB only because it doesn't work as quickly.
 
jelenko said:
Just use Iosso/Flitz bore cleaner. It will go MUCH faster.
And, honestly, on a hard carbon ring I don't think soaking it makes any difference. At least not when I've tried like Free All and top end cleaners.
You are not going to damage the barrel with very mild abrasives like Iosso/Flitz bore cleaner.
I'm not mentioning JB only because it doesn't work as quickly.
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I concur, iosso will easily take out that carbon.
Kinda wasting your time with anything else on super hard carbon.
 
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I tried submerging a muzzle brake with heavy carbon deposits in to a dish of Yamalube Ring Free for a few days. I was underwhelmed with the results.
 
When u guys run a wet patch after your last shot at the range....

Couple of questions:

1) what solvent are you using?
2) do you bring a full rod to the range, or do you have some sort of travel setup? If so, would you mind sharing?
3) do you plug the chamber and bore so the solvent doesn't leak everywhere? If so, with what?

These three-ish questions are what have been stopping me from doing this at the range. And then I get busy with life and it's days until I get back to the rifle for cleaning.

I'm thinking one of those Otis type kits or weed Wacker patch pull lines might be the ticket for a non rod travel setup.
 
Full length Tipton rod, boreguide, patches, jag,. My solvent of choice is Bore Tech C4 and Hoppes 9 50/50 mix. No plug, however when applied with the boreguide in place I have the butt of the rifle elevated. When it goes in my drag bag it pretty much sits with muzzle down and the drag bag is placed on my rear truck seat, so the position remains the same for the ride home and continues that way until it makes it to the bench. It gets a proper cleaning with the muzzle down and boreguide in place. No chamber plug, nothing on the muzzle.
 
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Did I ruin my barrel ? I used Iosso and the Iosso blue brush to clean my barrel. I got all the carbon out. I loaded 25 rounds of my go to ammo for this rifle and went to the range and it shot fine. On the second trip to the range this happened. sighters were about a 3 inch group and the second group was just over an inch, the next 3 groups were opened up to about 3 inches. When I got home I put the bore scope down the barrel and found quite a bit of carbon and copper streaking in the barrel. It cleaned out easy with 10 strokes of Boretech eliminator. Do I need to shoot more rounds to get the barrel seasoned again ? Should I clean after each trip to the range?
Anyone have an idea as to what happened or if I ruined my barrel? The rifle is a Tikka 223 varmint rifle with 1 in 8 twist. My go to round is Lapua brass, 80 gr SMK's 24.4 of Varget and a BR4 primer
 
Thank you I will check those things out. I just don't know why the carbon and copper came back so soon.
 
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