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Posted: 3/27/2017 9:22:01 PM EDT
| Who cleans their AK with a solid rod from the breach? It seems some receivers are cut low enough in the back to allow a rod without bending, others are almost impossible. |
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Originally Posted By MJFlores:
Who cleans their AK with a solid rod from the breach? It seems some receivers are cut low enough in the back to allow a rod without bending, others are almost impossible. 1) Put the rod in at the muzzle withOUT a jag, loop or brush screwed into it. 2) When the end of the rod appears at the receiver end of the barrel, attach your preferred tool end. 3) Pull the rod out, chamber to muzzle, and the brush, etc. along with it, it doing its cleaning task along the way. No rod bending can occur. 4) Remove the tool end, wipe off and reinsert the rod, repeat these steps as needed. (... or you slip the unit armorer a $20 to accept the rifle as-is) BTW, you just learned how I clean a M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, M14/M1A or just about any lever action rifle, too. 
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The cap on the cleaning kit is made for the rod to fit through and over the crown to protect
it during cleaning. The AK was made for battle conditions and designed thus. I will see if I can find my tutorial on the cleaning kit. Here is one to get you started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H3IlpQnlxg Here is another and there is one more but if you see this yb vid you can find the other. Even the cleaning kits were designed smartly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh2VORpYRMA |
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Originally Posted By GunnyG:
1) Put the rod in at the muzzle withOUT a jag, loop or brush screwed into it. 2) When the end of the rod appears at the receiver end of the barrel, attach your preferred tool end. 3) Pull the rod out, chamber to muzzle, and the brush, etc. along with it, it doing its cleaning task along the way. No rod bending can occur. 4) Remove the tool end, wipe off and reinsert the rod, repeat these steps as needed. (... or you slip the unit armorer a $20 to accept the rifle as-is) BTW, you just learned how I clean a M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, M14/M1A or just about any lever action rifle, too. |
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Originally Posted By 1saxman:
Yep. Get an Otis kit - you won't be sorry. You see, we don't have to use battlefield-expedient measures when we clean our guns during peacetime - there's plenty of time to do it in the least-harmful way possible which is to clean from the breech on any gun. http://www.proshotproducts.com/Tactical-Line-Replacement-Brushes--Jags_c_110.html |
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