Bolt action chamber cleaning

Intheshop

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Long overdue on this project. Handles and shafts have been done for over a year. Google Sinclair,chamber cleaning kit. Well worth the money at say Brownells but.....

With an almost inexhaustible supply of broken arrows,8/32 inserts,and Walnut it only seems responsible to make instead of buy. The big white thing is ebabe felt.... on the cheap. This gets slipped into an arrow tip that got slotted. This cleans the bolt lug recesses. Std brushes get swapped out on the other. 20190802_160703_resized.jpg
 

JWFilips

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I have found that small shotgun and muzzeloader caliber bore mops work great for me attached to a small piece of a 3 part cleaning rod. When they get grundgy, I wash them in hot water with some 'Dawn" I clean my chambers every cleaning
 

Brad

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I just strip the innards from my Marlins and a toothbrush reaches everything.
Bolt lugs? What are those?
 

Ian

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I actually broke down and bought a chamber brush and mop for the LR-308 recently, comes in handy like the GI kits for the M16 and M1A.
 

Brad

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Oh, those.
But many guns with a bolt are not a bolt action.


This is what I use for cleaning the lug recess on my ARs. The cotton rolls work well and remove lots of grunge from the lugs and recession the barrel extension.

I like to run my ARs pretty wet.
 
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Intheshop

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Nice tip on the dawn JW......

I'm like an old woman who doesn't take the plastic off the lampshade and has those carpet runners...... when it comes to store bought "bore mops". Got a dz still in their blister packs from over the last 40+ years.....don't want to get them dirty?

I wrap viva brand kitchen towels round wore out brushes to serve as mops.

Brad posted the link to the Sinclair kit. I do like their plastic handles but,we have walnut. Use EMT (electrical conduit) to serve as a ferrule. These chamber tool handles match the 4 straight,Allen wrench tools that live on the bench. Which utilize 45 ACP cases as ferrule's. Use them,well 2 of the 4,pretty much every day.

Little T shaped allen's are easy to make too. Punch the appropriate hole in the center of a short section of 3/8 X 3/8 or 1/2X1/2...... large enough for whatever size allen..... then drill/tap for set screw @90*. The weight of the square stock is what makes them spin so nicely.
 

Intheshop

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Have multiple sets of metric and SAE Bondhaus(sp) fancy,$$..... T wrenches in the shop. Things are scaled down a might,in the loading room...... think pistol smith in here,vs motorcycle race shop for scale.