I need a cleaning and maintenance kit for my bag. Does anyone have a preferred kit or do you just piece them together?
Gunsmithing AR-15 field maintenance and cleaning tools
- Thread starter higginsworksforme
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A couple, three to fit your needs.
I'd start with one of the ProShot, Otis, or Dewey Kits and add in a few items to flesh it out into a well rounded, functional kit.
Stuff like:
Assorted hex and torx wrenches for the fasteners on the rifle
Q-tips
Spare parts (Extractor, extractor spring, gas rings, firing pin, spare bolt, spare batteries, etc....it's dealer's choice)
Lens cleaning cloth
Sight adjustment tool
The above is going to cover 95% of the stuff you'll probably encounter away from the bench. I like pull through cable kits because they'll roll up to be more compact and do a sufficient job of cleaning the barrel for field purposes. Speaking from experience with the Otis cleaning cables, they will punch a piece of stuck brass from the chamber in an emergency when used with the appropriate obstruction remover tip. Add in a small cleaning rod section and it's more efficient.
Stuff like:
Assorted hex and torx wrenches for the fasteners on the rifle
Q-tips
Spare parts (Extractor, extractor spring, gas rings, firing pin, spare bolt, spare batteries, etc....it's dealer's choice)
Lens cleaning cloth
Sight adjustment tool
The above is going to cover 95% of the stuff you'll probably encounter away from the bench. I like pull through cable kits because they'll roll up to be more compact and do a sufficient job of cleaning the barrel for field purposes. Speaking from experience with the Otis cleaning cables, they will punch a piece of stuck brass from the chamber in an emergency when used with the appropriate obstruction remover tip. Add in a small cleaning rod section and it's more efficient.
What do you need a field ar15 maintenance kit to do? And, what is you size constraint. I have everything needed to build (or completely disassemble) an ar15- minus a vice- in this bag. With plenty of room for additional tools/parts/consumables…
It’s pieced together with tools accumulated as they became necessary.
It’s pieced together with tools accumulated as they became necessary.
I found a BCM SOPMOD repair kit with these:
- Extractor made to USGI specs (shot peened)
- Extractor pin
- BCM Extractor Spring (chrome silicon, heat treated & stress relieved, shot peened)
- 3 USGI Gas Rings
- Crane Ind O-Ring (Mil-Spec)
- Black Extractor Insert
- 2x AR15 Takedown Pin Detent
- 2x Takedown Pin Spring
- 2x Roll Pin, Fwd Assist
- 2x Bolt Catch Spring
- Bolt Catch Buffer
- 2x Bolt Catch Roll Pin
- Trigger/Hammer Pin
- Safety Selector Spring
- Safety Selector Detent
- Buffer Retainer
I have the Aero Kit also and it's a good kit to have in the parts box at home but not very usefule for a field environment in my opnion since they're mostly parts that you're not going to be swapping in the field without all of the other punches, screwdrivers, and armorer tools. A spare bolt and that BCM kit would be nice additions to the AR field maintenance and cleaning kit.
I have a Otis LEO deluxe field cleaning kit and its pretty nice. Got it on sale from primary arms. That's the only one I can recommend but it has served me well and it very compact.
