Cleaning Rod

[steakandpotato]

Just a few questions about cleaning rods - 

1) Do you need specific rods for specific guns/style of guns?

2) The barrel of my gun is long - L85A2 long. Does this change things?

3) Any recommendations on cleaning rods?

Thank you

 

[Gepard]

It shouldn't matter. Obviously using one that's in length with the barrel will help. 

I use a cigarette filter and silicone oil and then push it through the barrel with a cleaning rod and repeat as needed. Works great. 

Usually your gun would come with one but if it didn't I'm sure you can get one online fairly cheaply. 

 

[L3wisD]

Or ask your local airsoft shop if they have any spares you can have.

 

[Guyver1]

Length is important (ohh err mrs )

As the rod needs to reach right down the barrel to get all the "muck" out. I use the one my son got with his L96 which is about 2ft long for every weapon I have.

Everyone has their own way of cleaning their barrel and I suspect everyone does it a slightly different way.

Personally i use alcohol dipped swabs, the kind of thing the doctor uses to wipe your skin before an injection. You can get them in 100s for a couple of £ on ebay.

Wrap that around the end of the rod and clean up and down the barrel a few times changing each time until it comes out clean.

Leave for a few mins for the alcohol to evaporate and pop back in the case/bag.

HTH

alan

 

[steakandpotato]

Cheers guys. I'll look for a long rod.

ba-dum-tsh

 

[Rogerborg]

I use a cigarette filter and silicone oil

Why?

 

[proffrink]

Supposedly stops build-up of residue from BBs as they (occasionally) plink around the inside of the barrel and/or makes it easier to remove next time you're cleaning. Just don't get it anywhere near your bucking.

 

[Rogerborg]

I'm struggling to picture how putting something viscous in the barrel stops anything building up, or what it is that's coming off the BBs.

If it's lube being flung off the gears and blown out by the piston then it's already contaminated the bucking, and you'll need a solvent or surfactant to remove it.

tl;dr version - Y U NO use alcohol?

 

[Gepard]

I'm struggling to picture how putting something viscous in the barrel stops anything building up, or what it is that's coming off the BBs.

If it's lube being flung off the gears and blown out by the piston then it's already contaminated the bucking, and you'll need a solvent or surfactant to remove it.

tl;dr version - Y U NO use alcohol?

That's just how I was taught. I'll have a look into alcohol. Granted it's only recently I began to take apart my guns so there's probably much better ways of doing it. Before that there was a bunch of muck in the barrel and the method I used worked great at getting it all out. 

 

[LightningCh]

I know @Marc.RG1 cleans his inner barrels with bisley cleaning patches, (Going off his Hi Capa 5.1 maintenance video) what's actually on them I don't know lol, but he also says a cotton t shirt cut into the size strips also works so I guess it's just no fluids involved. Literally any cleaning rod that can reach down the barrel will work with this option lol.

 

[L3wisD]

I will only trust the Barrel cleaning advice of @ImTriggerHappy

 

[Marc.RG1]

Yeah the Bisley cleaning patches work great, they work great on RS, Airguns or Airsoft I have been using them on all 3 for years, although on the RS we use different things for different guns, but back to the airsoft,  The .177 or .22 Bisley cleaning patches work great on airsoft barrels, the cloth fabric is also good as it can not scratch the brass on even the cheapest of standard inner barrels, but it has enough of a texture to give the barrel a nice clean even when used dry, you can use a bore cleaner on the patch but it's not necessary if you don't let your barrel get to dirty to begin with.. So many people have different techniques and ways and use different products to clean their guns, but you seen how I do some on mine mate. 

ATB Marc 

 

[jcheeseright]

It shouldn't matter. Obviously using one that's in length with the barrel will help. 

I use a cigarette filter and silicone oil and then push it through the barrel with a cleaning rod and repeat as needed. Works great. 

Usually your gun would come with one but if it didn't I'm sure you can get one online fairly cheaply. 

Silicone oil in your barrel?! Are you mad? That’ll attract dirt like a magnet. 

You want the inside of the barrel to be bone dry and sparkly clean, use isopropyl alcohol instead. 

 

[proffrink]

This might be worth a look:





tl;dr

• Never clean with silicone (isopropyl alcohol is a proper solvent and will actually clean that dirt out of the barrel)
  
• As above: clean with isopropyl alcohol (the choice of cigarette filter, bits of cloth or kitchen towel is yours)
  
• Applying a thin coating of silicone should make your barrel less susceptible to picking up residue from certain BBs and can potentially decrease the long-term build-up of this residue in your barrel
  

 

[Gepard]

Silicone oil in your barrel?! Are you mad? That’ll attract dirt like a magnet. 

You want the inside of the barrel to be bone dry and sparkly clean, use isopropyl alcohol instead. 

That makes a lot of sense. I'll stop doing it immediately. Thanks for the suggestion. Alcohol seems like a much better method anyway. 

edit: Oh wow, now that I've researched this I'm embarrased to have recommended silicone oil. It would seem it makes the barrel even dirtier. Please disregard my previous comment. That was some bad advise. 

 

[AshOnSnow]

I don't use any alcohol or liquids at all cleaning my barrel - I use a lens cloth wrapped through my cleaning rod - one end is looped to push a cloth through, the other end is 6mm diameter and angled to push out jammed BBs. Every couple of months I use this dry lens cloth and give it a good polish on the inside until it shines.

 

[proffrink]

That makes a lot of sense. I'll stop doing it immediately. Thanks for the suggestion. Alcohol seems like a much better method anyway. 

edit: Oh wow, now that I've researched this I'm embarrased to have recommended silicone oil. It would seem it makes the barrel even dirtier. Please disregard my previous comment. That was some bad advise. 

As per the other thread, not 100% true but certainly true in the way most people use it.

 

[Gepard]

As per the other thread, not 100% true but certainly true in the way most people use it.

Still, if there are better ways of doing something I'm all for adopting those methods. I'll certainly be using alcohol from here on. 

 

[steakandpotato]

How far do you go? Just till you feel it hit something?

 

[Hangtight]

Take the barrel and the hop out. Put the cleaning rod down the muzzle and look through the hop until you can see that the cleaning rod is just short of the rubber. Put a bit of tape round the cleaning rod as a depth marker.