How "clean" do you clean your ar 15?

How clean do you clean your ar 15?

Right now I have a bolt that I never cleaned till now and it has tons of stubborn carbon that will not remove?

Anyone have any insight to remove stubborn thick carbon?

I have another bolt that I got 99 percent of the carbon off but their is still this stubborn thin 1 percent that I cannot remove.

I have tried gasoline, wd40, a degreaser with ammonia. Nothing has worked.

Also I am never very positive that I removed all fouling and copper from my bore.

Can I use a brush in the bore as well?

Or just guide rode and patches?

I have a otis bore snake cleaning kit that is very difficult to size the patches the correct size to get enough tension to clean or if it is too small doesn't really do much cleaning.

Also the otis kit came with a copper brush. Am I suppose to run that through the bore? While I scratch the bore?

I use brake cleaner on the bolt and just shoot the dust outa the barrel...

I'll run a bore snake through it once in a while. I'll use a chamber brush if i'm going from steel cased to brass so they don't stick.

Other that that, clean the BCG with brake cleaner if they get too nasty and wipe out the inside and lube it up once in a while...

I have a franken gun I don't lube or clean. It is dusty and dirty most of the time. I guess when it jams I'll clean it. I rely on the grit to loosen up the tolerances for me.
My safe queens are spotless.

Let the bolt soak for a couple hours before you hit the crud. It should clean pretty easy. I don't clean mine very often, just because I know it does not hurt the rifle to be dirty as long as it is lubed.

Submerge the bolt in a bowl of WD40 for a couple hours, that usually does the trick

i clean it after every shooting session but thats cause i dont shoot much i use a bore snake and chamber brush plus brass brushes on the bcg.as for the carbon you cant get off i had that problem and used a knife on it very carefully..im going to pick up a cat m4 tool today which would clean the carbon off your bolt tail very easy and quickly..cost about 30 bucks




http://www.riflegear.com/p-1257-cat-m-4-bolt-carrier-cleaner.aspx

For that stuck on carbon let the boalt soak in Kroil overnight then use a brass brush. It'll come right off.

Copper will not scratch the bore.

I use rods, Dewey.
For cleaning the bore I use Gunslick FBC, 2 cycles
Bolt and carrier get weapons shield and a bronze brushing, any hard to remove sections a fired 5.56 casing works just fine.

I clean the face of my bolt... I haven't taken out the retaining key and removed the bolt from the carrier... it still moves freely in there. I need to remove it and see what's what and give it a hosing down with CLP.

I used a chamber brush and some CLP after I had a spent case get stuck in the chamber... had to remove it with a cleaning rod.

I run a cleaning rod down the barrel with CLP or Hoppes #9 on a bronze brush.

I follow it up with patches until everything is clean.

For the piston could not just replace it ???? or would that be another can of worms and a No No

After 5 minutes in my new ultrasonic cleaner all the parts from the bcg look brand spanking new. I actually like shooting my AR's now.

For bolt crown, I use toothbrush soak with WD 40. Then use dental tools to remove carbon in hard areas.
Use Q-tip to remove carbon in the extrator face.

In the barrel chamber, I use nylon 10 gauge shoot gun brush. Soak brush with Brichwood Bore/Copper cleaner.
Let it dry. Repeat with Hoppe 9.

For complete bolt cleanin, I normally strip the bolt and let it in the tub of WD 40. Remove carbon where areas are needed.

Soak all the bolt parts in cheap Barabasol shaving cream....it breaks all the stubborn carbon up.

Get a standard M-16/AR-15 mil cleaning kit from like 7 to 15 dollar any where and some CLP or Rem Oil. For the hard carbon on the bolt face and tail a copper brush or a pen kinfe with Rem/CLP oil. For those who never clean their rifle after like 16 million rounds and are proud of it good luck with that my friends. I clean the piss out of mine just like Sarge said too.

Very clean usually.
They make products that work on carbon if you do not want to do it the old fashioned way.
An oily patch can tell you how clean the bore is, but if you are not brushing it is likely not clean.
Bore brushes are meant to be used in the bore including the one in your Otis kit.
A person needs to keep the chamber clean too.

I keep mine spotless. Mostly because i have way to much free time on my hands, but also I dont want to get those build ups. Its easy to clean after each outing of less than 200 rounds, so spotless is pretty easy to achieve without going "all out" on the barrel and internals.

Use a spent brass casing to scrape the carbone but dont over do it. Generally if i cant get it off in 5 minutes i dont worry about it

After each range trip (let it be 30 rounds or 500 rounds), it gets a normal cleaning

after 2000 rounds (give or take) i will take the FCG out and clean/oil it

Spray out upper with MPro 7 Cleaner. If you are cheap use TOXIC non chlor brake cleaner

I clean it pretty much like the manual.


Spraying out the upper makes for a easy job.

I use the GI clean kit or Otis in field.

I clean my bore after each time it is shot with one of those foaming agents. I'll swap it out, then blow it out with compressed air, then oil the bore.
I'll use a tooth brush to clean the bolt lugs and bolt face, then lube them lightly as well as the BCG.
While the lower is loose, I'll also blow it out with compressed air and then relube it.
My ARs seem to look great, one even after 15 years and thousands of rounds through it.
It's probably ready for a new barrel but so far it still shoots good.

It's a great idea to clean regularly if you make it a routine to do a light cleaning after each outing it doesn't give the carbon much of a chance to build up and harden also give a gun related activity that is virtually free for when you can't get to a range. I have an inertia action shotgun that would basically stay spotless with thousands of rounds through it but i still do a fairly regular cleaning on it never hurts to atleast run a bore snake through it and a little lube on the bolt and cam pin

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