Gunsmithing Carbon Baked in Barrel please help.

[Huskydriver]

What’s your fave solvent or method for carbon rings? Sadly ive not cleaned a lot of my crap in a long time and am a bit concerned worth carbon left in there at this point, in pretty much everything I own.

I use clr followed by wipe out usually

 

[hiddenmongoose]

Simichrome, solved carbon ring in my 338. shoots perfect again.

 

[Baron23]

Bringing this back from the dead. How are you guys filling the barrels up with cleaners without getting stuff all in the action?

PVA Jimmy or Plug

Muzzle Jimmy

The easiest way to clean your AR15/AR10 barrel and gas system

patriotvalleyarms.com

"The Plug" - Barrel Cleaning Aid

The Plug is the easiest way to seal and clean rifle barrels.

patriotvalleyarms.com

Or silicon plug.

 

[SilentStalkr]

So I’m curious, for those that have polished out carbon rings, did your barrel start to copper foul at a much faster rate after the polishing? We had to lightly polish this one to get the ring out but now I’m a bit worried that we may have made the situation worse. With that said, before it had gotten so bad that I couldn’t chamber anything anymore and when and if I could I was popping primers due to the pressures, so in effect with the ring it was a paperweight. It may still be a paperweight but at least now it should fire.

 

[hlee]

Solvent will flow through a foam ear plug.

 

[SilentStalkr]

Solvent will flow through a foam ear plug.

Silicon plug it is.

 

[Chargerguy]

Solvent will flow through a foam ear plug.

Yup. Learned this the hard way. Possum hollow bore guide with a nice tight fitting o ring. Plugged the bore guide with one of those yellow and pink foam ear plugs. Filled the barrel with C4 carbon remover and leaned the rifle up against the wall overnight. Seemed to be holding but in the morning I saw it made it through the ear plug and started dripping on my cheek rest. Dissolved the glue on my cheek pad. That was it for the earplugs.

 

[Baron23]

Silicon plug it is.

For $13 this is a lifetime supply of silicon plugs in a wide variety of dimensions.

Amazon product ASIN B08SQ6SD72

 

[Snuby642]

How about a foam ear plug?

Some brands melt and some will last overnite.

If that's all you have available make sure your backup container under it all is big enough.

 

[hlee]

Some brands melt and some will last overnite.

If that's all you have available make sure your backup container under it all is big enough.

The Radian orange foam plugs don’t melt with overnight exposure to C4 carbon remover, but they are sufficiently porous that the solvent just leaks through them.

 

[OREGUN]

Cut the finger off a “rubber glove”. Put the foamy in the finger tip. Insert into muzzle, or chamber if that’s your style.

 

[lariat]

Cut the finger off a “rubber glove”. Put the foamy in the finger tip. Insert into muzzle, or chamber if that’s your style.

This seems to be a good idea. I’m going to try this.