Posted: 2/14/2005 3:53:18 PM EDT
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OK my friend has a 10mm eclispe it's 2 months over and it's rusting. My other friend has a Stainless II and it's barrel is rusting. Seen another guys barrel rusting so bad it was jamming the slide up. What's the deal? Ya know i know this is FL but, stuff that is 2 months old shouldn't do that. Is this a common problem with Kimber? When you pay the price kimber brings you don't expect it to rust. J |
Same here. Noticed just a few tiny spots on the top of the barrel. Made sure to scrub it out (to the extent where it can't be seen with the naked eye with two Surefires on it). Now I take it out and clean it quite often with rust preventative. |
| I came back off an 8 month deployment a while back. I forgot to clean my pistolas before I left. All of them had green stuff on the rifling inside the barrels from copper jacketing. But, the only rust on my Kimber Custom was on the grip safety. Barrel was good to go. |
A review of the Kimber catalog indicates that only their high end pistols have stainless barrels, the Eclipes is not one of them. The Gold Combat, LTP, Gold Match Ten, Super Match, and Raptor 5" have stainless barrels. I was born and still live in Florida, my two Kimbers are rust free and will remaine so as long as I do my part in maintaining them. 
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| My 25th Anniversary had a little corrosion on the outside and some build up on the inside. My local smith hit the outside with a buffer and cleaned it up and I ran some Shooter Choice on a patch through the bore using a Jag and the problem was solved! I'm a little more aware of rust and corrosion now and so I stay on top it . |
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I had my TLE in my fannypack under my seat in the car for about a week to 10 days during a very cold snap. 3 or 4 times a day my car would go from being -35F or colder to being 65-70F. I took it ou of my fanny pack to carry in a holster, I almost threw up. It was covered in surface rust. A little steel wool, a little oil, and a little elbow grease got it off, but damn tuff lesson learned. I am shipping it off tomorrow to have it Duracoated. Chris |
| My Ultra CDP is carried in the pants every single day and it has developed some minor rusting around the front of the barrel. I thought it was my gig but after reading this I have some serious eyebrow raising going on. Is there anything that we should be doing different to PREVENT this from happening. Back in the Army, rust on your weaon was a major nono so I am extra paranoid. Old habits die hard. |
If you're ex Army, you ought to be familiar with the acronym "PMCS". 
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