I’m new to the game, so anybody in the know already knows I guess. But #1, ■■■■ these things are cool and why did I wait this long to get into this?
And #2, when you get carbon, lead, and copper all in your whisper pickle and it actually gets palpably heavier, a couple ounces of this miracle solution is your huckleberry. Thanks to a friend of a relative of a sausagefest friend who showed me the way
I’m told previously it was sonic cleaners, noxious chemicals and a lot of picking and scrubbing. This was easy as pie, smelled like almost nothing: sit for a day, disassemble, spray with hot hose water (then a brush and dish soap to make me feel like I was doing something), rinse, dry, reassemble, oil, and keep firing
Shout out to Jose Mangin, seriously nice dude, dog person, and host of SiriusXM channel Liquid Metal!
For sure Breakthrough is good stuff for the aluminum pieces. I run the breakthrough CLP(clean lube protect) everything. Although I let my stainless baffles soak in CLR (Calcium, Lime, Rust, not to be used on aluminum*) in a jar while I clean the aluminum parts with CLP, then rinse them all in warm water and wipe off with a paper towel.
Also, do not run crush washers or orings with a can. Do use a tiny dab of grey (nickel high heat) anti-seize. Even on the supressor threads, too.
thanks! had never disassembled till after i soaked it, so i didn’t realize there were o-rings in the juice too. immediately occurred to me i should’ve looked and that they might get eaten up by the cleaner.
I did notice that the finish on the aluminum housing seems a tiny bit less dark now, probably the last time i dip the whole thing for that long
will get some CLP and anti-seize next. armed with better information thanks to @stumpknocker and CF.com!
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I have been using an ultrasonic cleaner with some simple green/water just because I had one but that looks pretty simple.
Those are Viton oring and practically solvent resistant. That sparrow has an 11$ oring kit for just in case tho…Your can comes with internal orings, I was referring to the barrel threads in my comments
