GETTING YOUR TUBES CLEANED

[akspec 0]

I was just cleaning the gas tube on my S-20 and man what a pain in the a$$!

How do you all clean yours?

[dinzag 31]

Field strip (rem dust cover, bolt, etc.)

Remove adjustable gas tube plug

Remove piston (out the front)

 

Should be straight thru shot. I think I use a 12 gauge or my muzzleloader breach brush to knock crud loose...then wrap a patch around the same brush to clean just like you would the barrel.

 

I usually clean up the piston and use a dental pick to get at the gas ports in the barrel.

 

Any help???

[IndyArms 10,186]

Ditto to that...

 

Same here... I use a 12 gauge phosphor/bronze brush saturated with bore scrubber or hoppes #9... then the patches around same brush...

 

finish with a light sprits of oil... ( It will smoke like hell if ya put too much oil in there, but it wont hurt anything...)

 

[akspec 0]

Thanks! Thats those are great tips.

[ISUshooter 0]

finish with a light sprits of oil... ( It will smoke like hell if ya put too much oil in there, but it wont hurt anything...)

 

YOU DO NOT want to have any remnants of oil in your gas system. It should be completely clean and DRY. Any oil left in there is a magnet to powder residue. (also will smoke terribly as stated) causing your gun to need another gas sytem cleaning much earlier than if it were dry. Run a patch thru with some gun scrubber or other solvent and then 2 more clean dry patches through it.

 

I did like the dental pick idea though