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Posted: 7/14/2009 7:26:45 PM EDT
| Used a dremel tool with a wire brush to clean up my bolt and ended up scraping off a small portion of the bolt's silver material and exposing some gold colored material. Stupid...yes, but will this cause any sort of problem with the function of the gun in time? |
I honestly cant see going through what some people do to clean a rifle. Now this is just my opinion but if it don't come off with a tooth brush and some elbow grease it wont hurt being where it's at. It will come off later on its own or it will loosen up to be removed at the next cleaning. Dremel tools, polishing agents, pipe cleaners, caustic soda and radiation are UNNECESSARY. Gas tubes are self cleaning until you put something in them. Then you have a plugged gas tube. Bolts with a little brass coloring are used bolts and need not be brought to the same condition that they were when they were pulled from the little bag they were shipped in. I find these practices of meticulous cleaning totally unnecessary. All my rifles are clean and function. I have one AR I've had since '86 and it's never seen any gas tube cleaning or any radical type cleaning, just a brush or two a patch or two and a good lube job, and no troubles. I have put thousands of rounds through this rifle over the years and never had any problems other than a occasional mag glitch that is easy to fix by changing the mag. Thats all I have to say about that.....JMO....YMMV...
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Quoted: I honestly cant see going through what some people do to clean a rifle. Now this is just my opinion but if it don't come off with a tooth brush and some elbow grease it wont hurt being where it's at. It will come off later on its own or it will loosen up to be removed at the next cleaning. Dremel tools, polishing agents, pipe cleaners, caustic soda and radiation are UNNECESSARY. Gas tubes are self cleaning until you put something in them. Then you have a plugged gas tube. Bolts with a little brass coloring are used bolts and need not be brought to the same condition that they were when they were pulled from the little bag they were shipped in. I find these practices of meticulous cleaning totally unnecessary. All my rifles are clean and function. I have one AR I've had since '86 and it's never seen any gas tube cleaning or any radical type cleaning, just a brush or two a patch or two and a good lube job, and no troubles. I have put thousands of rounds through this rifle over the years and never had any problems other than a occasional mag glitch that is easy to fix by changing the mag. Thats all I have to say about that.....JMO....YMMV... You forgot the thumb nail |
| Very true, I normally don't do anymore than wipe everything down good, and few patches through the bore and relube...dremel was sitting on my bench w/ a nearby wire brush and the idea came to mind...bolt was as shiny as the day it came outta the package, but completely unnecessary. Anyway as long as the now exposed brass won't hurt anything, I'm not gonna worry about it and will keep shooting it frequently as I usually do. |
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...if it don't come off with a tooth brush and some elbow grease it wont hurt being where it's at. I tried to tell my armorers this, but they insist on telling all of the soldiers to scrub and scrape until the black is gone. They recently went to a range and it rained for a week straight. Just about every single weapon has rust on the bolt carrier and bolt, as well as just about every steel part on the rifle. They will still function fine, but rust is a no-go. |
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Used a dremel tool with a wire brush to clean up my bolt http://media.ar15.com/media/images/xAvatar/58237.GIF this is funny.. 
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Used a dremel tool with a wire brush to clean up my bolt and ended up scraping off a small portion of the bolt's silver material and exposing some gold colored material. Stupid...yes, but will this cause any sort of problem with the function of the gun in time? We need pictures of the screw up! |
Has the weapon even been fired yet? It does'nt take but afew touches with a patch to get it cleaned!
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What puzzles me, what part of the bolt is brass or gold colored material? Am I missing something? I thought it was entirely steel?
Did you merely expose brass impregnated surface of the bolt that was covered in carbon? Some parts of the bolt pick up brass from the round and it tends to speckle the surface brass color. Did you use a brass wire brush with the dremel and it left the metal surface brass colored? I've used a brass wire brush (hand variety, NOT dremel) to clean carbon from the bolt tail, it left the surface brass color tint, but wiped away with a cloth. |
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...if it don't come off with a tooth brush and some elbow grease it wont hurt being where it's at. I tried to tell my armorers this, but they insist on telling all of the soldiers to scrub and scrape until the black is gone. They recently went to a range and it rained for a week straight. Just about every single weapon has rust on the bolt carrier and bolt, as well as just about every steel part on the rifle. They will still function fine, but rust is a no-go. Ugh, don't get me started on military weapon cleaning practices 
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