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25-06-2021, 20:00 #51
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Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock
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25-06-2021, 23:14 #52
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Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock
I use sewing machine oil. Comes standard with a nozzle. Jut make sure you don't cut it to short.
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26-06-2021, 08:18 #53
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Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock
A few drops and a earbud to spread it, also picks up the excess
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08-08-2022, 17:47 #54
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08-08-2022, 17:51 #55
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Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock
https://artsavingsclub.co.za/product...icator-bottle/
R19 - Small needle bottles
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25-08-2022, 23:13 #56
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Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock
I'm constantly amazed by the over complication of simple things. I have carried and regularly fired my old first series Sig Sauer P220 for 43 years. Dunno how much ammo but 30 - 40K would be a fair guess. Nothing ever broke and not a single malfunction. My only cleaning tools are a Parker Hale rod, jag and bronze brush. As I shoot cast bullets there's always some lead fouling - easily cleaned with two strokes of the brush dipped in solvent followed by a patch on the jag just for good measure. Powder fouling on the frame around the feed ramp and on the breech face cleaned with a wet patch applied with finger tip. Same for guide rails on frame and slide, then wiped dry. For lubrication a light coat of sewing machine oil on the guide rails applied with a lightly oily patch then wiped off to leave just a thin coat. Some people drown their guns in oil - it's counter productive. Finally I wipe the frame and slide with an oily patch and wipe off. The oil penetrates the metal slightly and greatly improves rust resistance. Generally I clean my guns in that way after each range session, but if I don't see the range for a couple of months I clean the gun every month. But I have to apply an extra treatment in hot weather - I found that carrying next to my skin in hot weather causes rust on the left back end of the slide, that being the part in contact with my skin. I found that cleaning the sweat off that portion every evening with thinner followed by the wipe on oil treatment prevented rust. You don't want thick oil on a firearm - you want light machine oil ie sewing machine oil. I clean out my barrels and everything else with paint thinner. For those who don't know Hoppes No 9 is odourless paint thinner with banana oil added to give it its distinctive smell. Why pay for that when hardware store paint thinner is the same thing with a different smell? Bores and chambers should be left completely dry. So, simple tools, simple solvent and oil, simple methods. I clean my Sig in five minutes. My S&W rollie takes a bit longer for obvious reasons. My 43 year old well used Sig runs like a Swiss sewing machine and is as good as new except for some external cosmetic wear.
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26-08-2022, 07:45 #57
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Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock
Sir, out of interest, would that be the P220 with the heel release?
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26-08-2022, 14:11 #58
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Re: How Do You Maintain Your EDC Glock
Hoppes No.9 is mostly kerosene, ethanol and propanol and a bunch of other components. The banana smell is amyl acetate which is sometimes called banana oil.
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26-08-2022, 14:27 #59
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26-08-2022, 15:11 #60
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