The last gun I got, I took a few shots before cleaning, just to check that the gun was working.
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Should I clean new air rifle barrel
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My Avenger does not have a breech o-ring. There are two o-rings on the pellet probe that seal that area so no worries about damaging a breech o-ring. I use goo-gone to clean new barrels and non-chlorinated brake cleaner for subsequent cleanings. I have recently been using Johnson's paste wax after cleaning.
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What do you use to polish the barrel?
and technically, polishing removes material, just a thought.
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How about a Kral empire X does that have an o ring and where is it located so i can avoid when cleaning the barrel?
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Polishing typically involves something in the range of 1000 grit or finer like J-B Bore Compound. Here’s a good discussion on the topic from a while back:
Tuning - Barrel Polishing?
Interested in how folks are doing this. I’ve seen a couple different ways and the last was with a drill and a device I can’t remember the name of. As always thank you
www.airgunnation.com With such a fine abrasive, it would take hours and hours of scrubbing to remove even a ten-thousandth of an inch (0.0001”). All it’s doing is knocking down microscopic surface fretting that remains from dragging through the rifling button. It will do nothing meaningful for defects visible to the naked eye like reamer marks, scratches from a crowning pilots, etc.
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Not one gun is build exactly the same as another.
Just remove any o-ring that could come into contact with cleaning products. Simple logics.
Personally I don't really care about that, if a o-ring becomes dry and/or is leaking air I just change it anyways.
I always buy at least one complete reseal kit along every new airgun. Saved myself a couple of unnessary headaches over the years.
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I sure hope so! It would be a waste of time it it did not.
The point is to remove or smooth any points/ridges/burrs/protrusions/ gall or chatter marks from the bore so that lead does not build up to obscure the pellet or slug.
I use JB paste followed by metal polish, clean to steel then use wax to fill voids, run a clean patch and fire away!
This method removes miniscule amounts of metal, undetectable with a veneer caliper.
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I don't remove breech orings when cleaning and I use (GASP!) Hoppes #9 with reckless abandon!
I don't know where this old wives tail started about Hoppes #9 ruining orings but I did the 24 hour test with all my cleaning chems and Alphabet org & Balistol were the only ones I found to plump up an oring and none of my chess hurt an oring in the 24 hour soak.
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Well i only clean the inside of the barrel. I really am unable to see how an O ring can reside inside the barrel.
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How about SemiChrome?Polishing typically involves something in the range of 1000 grit or finer like J-B Bore Compound. Here’s a good discussion on the topic from a while back:
Tuning - Barrel Polishing?
Interested in how folks are doing this. I’ve seen a couple different ways and the last was with a drill and a device I can’t remember the name of. As always thank you
With such a fine abrasive, it would take hours and hours of scrubbing to remove even a ten-thousandth of an inch (0.0001”). All it’s doing is knocking down microscopic surface fretting that remains from dragging through the rifling button. It will do nothing meaningful for defects visible to the naked eye like reamer marks, scratches from a crowning pilots, etc.
Most do have a sealing 0-ring just inside the breech, tons of fun to replace.Well i only clean the inside of the barrel. I really am unable to see how an O ring can reside inside the barrel.
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Well i only clean the inside of the barrel. I really am unable to see how an O ring can reside inside the barrel.
Many guns have breech orings to seal the probe.
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Another question. Should I clean the bore with my moderator installed? In my case the mod is bonded to the barrel. Weihrauch HW110
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I have not used it myself but a search turns up some comments on knife forums indicating it’s for developing something closer to a mirror finish.
The phrase “polishing the bore” is perhaps misleading. I think smoothing is a better term. For that, we need an abrasive that will at least dull a polished surface.
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From what I can determine, the export version for the USA has the moderator "bonded" to the barrel.
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Really that is crazy. Are you sure? Any owners like to confirm that. It makes no sence at all to me. Suppose the silencer goes faulty.
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In a previous life I used a lot of the stuff to make things really shiny and very close fitting, given what I saw from Ernst that's where he headed.
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Utter noob here. Well, at least with air rifles. I’ve shot powder guns all my life, and have a lot of experience cleaning them. However, cleaning my Marauder has me stumped. I’d rather not try to shove a patch from the muzzle end, and my bore snake’s weight is too long to drop in from the breach. I’ve seen kits that look like weed whip line that one pulls through, but wouldn’t the curve of the line become jammed in the baffles? Do I pull them out first? Ideas? Thanks!
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The PatchWorm kits are great. Just remove the baffles or use a drinking straw to feed the line through the baffles
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