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Posted: 12/30/2012 12:43:03 PM EDT
| Has anyone used a bead blaster to clean baffles? Hand cleaning is a pain! |
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I never tried a blaster, sounds messy.
I use a wet tumbler with stainless steel pins to clean my 22 baffles. 200 rounds, 4 hrs later with 2 tablespoons of dawn dishwater soap. Bingo! If you shoot more , tumble it longer, it's quiet and won't hurt a thing. If you reload, this is also the best way to clean brass, BTW. 
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The silencer is a AAC Element. It has stainless steel baffles.
I also tumble the AAC Tirant45 and it has some aluminum baffles. The water / ss pins are an extremely gentle method of cleaning pistol silencers. I also throw the brass in at the same time when shooting 44 special or 45 brass. Tirant 45 parts below: 
Here is the silencer shooting 44 Spl out of a single shot contender pistol. It's very quiet. 
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Oh the irony. I never tried a blaster, sounds messy. I use a wet tumbler with stainless steel pins to clean my 22 baffles. 
I glass-bead blast mine. It only takes minutes to get 'em clean. I'm sure it works, as I glass bead rifles and pistols. Do you bead outside or in a cabinet? Personally, I grow tired of the grit in my teeth...My cabinet sucks as the dust leaks out vacuum attached or not. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Oh the irony. I never tried a blaster, sounds messy. I use a wet tumbler with stainless steel pins to clean my 22 baffles. I glass-bead blast mine. It only takes minutes to get 'em clean. I'm sure it works, as I glass bead rifles and pistols. Do you bead outside or in a cabinet? Personally, I grow tired of the grit in my teeth...My cabinet sucks as the dust leaks out vacuum attached or not. Enclosed cabinet with vacuum dust collection system. God Bless Harbor Freight.  |
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Quoted: Enjoy the low sperm count while you can! Nevermind that superfluous nipple! Sorry just sounds really dumb to make all that lead airborne so you can breath it right in. would you ever shoot a magazine then put the can to your lips and inhale? That's basically what you're doing. They even recommend tummbling BRASS outside, what the hell do you think is stuck to those baffles? Quoted: Quoted: Oh the irony. I never tried a blaster, sounds messy. I use a wet tumbler with stainless steel pins to clean my 22 baffles. I glass-bead blast mine. It only takes minutes to get 'em clean. No third nipples here and my gentleman's juice is as potent as ever!  Say, how does one deal with the toxic sludge that results from wet tumbling? |
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Well for your health and the health of your loved ones i hope your Harbor Freight $99 filter works, good luck with that. That said, sand blasting lead is stupid under the best conditioins. Instead of putting people down, why don't you share what you think is the best way to clean baffles? |
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How long are you tumbling the aluminum Tirant baffles in your Thumbler Tumbler? I throw everything in, incl the booster except the silencer body or endcaps. I run it 1-2 hrs or until clean. There is no lead built up, just carbon. The cleaning process goes a lot faster. I don't tumble longer than needed and there is no damage. Sure beats solvent and an hrs worth of scrubbing with a stainless brush.... The reason I don't throw the body or endcaps in is because I don't want to damage the exterior finish. Maybe it would be fine, but I never tried it. I know the threads would be fine as I throw the booster in. |
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I would like to do this with my ss sparrow core but am concerned about the threads.
If it doesn't damage brass, ss should have no issue, but I am being cautious. I searched but haven't found any posts specifically stating a sparrow core was tumbled. edit: I found some info on silencer talk, no damaged reported to the threads using ss media..... |
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