Can I get the staright dope on corrosive ammo and cleaning in my 47 and 74?
I just want to make sure that my cleaning routine is good to go on my AKs. The first thing I do is run about 3-5 caliber correct patches soaked in straight from the bottle ammonia down the barrel and inside the gas tube. I then clean with CLP and oil em down. This good?
All you need is hot soapy water to clean corrosive ammo. After the hot soapy water, oil with your choice of oils. Anything else is a waste of money
Originally Posted By Kss_Waylander:
I just want to make sure that my cleaning routine is good to go on my AKs. The first thing I do is run about 3-5 caliber correct patches soaked in straight from the bottle ammonia down the barrel and inside the gas tube. I then clean with CLP and oil em down. This good?
You don't need ammonia. Water will wash the corrosive salts away. My ak has no wood on it so I litterally dump it in the bathtub wash all the parts off, blow dry with a xompressor and clean like normal.
A good scrub and flush with water, hot water is preferable.
Make sure you hit the gas tube, bolt/piston and breech/bolt.
Followed by a normal cleaning with solvent/CLP of choice and normal oiling/lube.
Ammonia is of no chemical advantage.
Soap or other surfactant can't hurt but isn't necessary, the water dissolves the salts.
Make you some moose milk (water/ballistol mixed 10 to 1)....after shooting while the weapon is still hot, field strip and spray the mixture down the barrel from the chamber end.
I mean really soak it down, leave it barrel down for several minutes then run several patches thought it....reassemble and clean like normal
when you get home.
Flushes the corrosive salts out and makes cleaning easier as well. I also spray down the bolt, gas piston and gas tube as well.
Originally Posted By ColonelHurtz:
A good scrub and flush with water, hot water is preferable.
Make sure you hit the gas tube, bolt/piston and breech/bolt.
Followed by a normal cleaning with solvent/CLP of choice and normal oiling/lube.
Ammonia is of no chemical advantage.
Soap or other surfactant can't hurt but isn't necessary, the water dissolves the salts.
+1. This is exactly what I do and make sure that you use water as hot as possible. This causes it to clean fast and dry fast, leaving almost no water or moisture in the gun. Then use other cleaners if you think you need to, then lube with CLP or whatever brand you like.
The flushing with really hot water is the key to get all the bad ju ju that corrosive ammo leaves flushed out and off of your weapon. I've got a Bulgy 74 that has lots of surplus corrosive stuff thru it and this is the way I clean and not one speck of rust anywhere, and I live in a very humid climate.
+1
Hot water and GTG
I just hose out in the utility sink. I use soap, but that is for the oil and carbon, not for the corrosive ammo. For corrosive ammo, just plain old water. Corrosive = salt. sald dissolves in water. salt dissolves faster in hot water. That's it. No magic. no secret. Salt dissolves in water.
Blow dry. I use a compressed air. If not available, use a blow dryer.
few patches down the bore.
if I'm really anal, I'll put a small amount of grease on the bolt/carrier interface, but being in the desert I generally keep lube to a minimum.
