Zorros
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Blued guns turn white. Bought a treated cloth for blued guns but some residue remains from lead bullets. Any tips, tricks or suggestions?
Cleaning cyl face from lead residue
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Oh my, you're not using a "Lead-Away" cloth, are you? They remove lead AND bluing. I've always let the cylinder face sit in a little Hoppes, and then scrubbed with a stiff nylon brush. In my olden days, I used to try to completely erase any trace of a discoloration around the face of the chambers, now I just knock it back as much as I reasonably can and call it good.
Zorros
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I bought a cloth for blued surfaces and one for nickel. Labeled for each. The nickel warns not to use on blued finishes as did my bud at the gun shop. But after use of the cloth there is still a little white residue. I don’t think i had experienced this and a few weeks ago i shot a couple of boxes of lead nose 38s thru a sw 19 that was almost 50 years old but like new. When i got home and started cleaning i thought the gun had been reblued and my nylon tooth brush had removed the reblueing in the cyl face. Lead.
Using Kroil and a green scouring pad will usually clean up the front of the cylinder without hurting the blueing. As OMC said, "Lead Away" clothes take the blueing off with the lead.
ken792
Ultimate Member
I use Shooter's Choice lead remover. Once it sits for a few minutes, the lead flakes come right off with a brush. I mainly clean the chambers and forcing cone, but it works on the cylinder face too if I want to remove it.
Zorros
Ultimate Member
Will shooting a case of lead ammo .38 sp thru 3-4 handguns adversely ffect guns...leaded bores?
Ammo Jon
Ultimate Member
- Mar 3, 2008
- 20,986
Adversely affect your free time cleaning them. Whenever I get too busy to go to the range, I justify it by telling myself at least I don’t have to waste my time cleaning them!
https://www.federalpremium.com/handgun/american-eagle/american-eagle-handgun/11-AE38K.html
Nanook
F-notso-NG-anymore
Short answer: Nope.
Any lead build up in a steel barrel will come right out without damaging the lands and grooves. The lead is much softer than the steel. This only changes with plated bullets, the copper is softer than steel but it will eventually wear it down a bit - hundreds of thousands of rounds in most cases.
If you buy factory made, you will have no problem. The slight trace of lead in the barrel brushes out with no problem.
If you reload your own, it will take time to learn which bullet, at what diameter and how fast it's shot will work for your guns. Most guns get leaded by reloaders using a bullet that is too hard or they are shooting them too fast.
Zorros
Ultimate Member
Angels. Thank you.
- Feb 4, 2013
- 28,175
Harder bullets lead less. Softer bullets deposit more lead.
Swaged bullets are softer than cast, typically.
That is not always the case. Obturation is not always happen with hard bullets and light charges. Try shooting 2.8 grains of bullseye behind a hard bullet in a 38 special and you will shortly see what I mean.
Blacksmith101
Grumpy Old Man
- Jun 22, 2012
- 22,269
Zorros if you want to learn about leading visit Cast Boolits forum and use their search engine (It works). The bullet casters deal with leading frequently and have answers. They have a custom search engine on their site which works much better than ours.
Try searching for Cylinder Face Leading and while you are at it Barrel Leading.
Link to Cast Boolits:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/
Try searching for Cylinder Face Leading and while you are at it Barrel Leading.
Link to Cast Boolits:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/
Zorros
Ultimate Member
Thank you, Blacksmith. I learned from that site.
Biggfoot44
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- Aug 2, 2009
- 33,159
Back at post #10 , I've had the opposite experience . Some factory loads are ok , some are horrendous lead-ers . My loads did much better . ( But I used good bullets , and suitable loads .)
Zorros
Ultimate Member
PPU loads seem PU. Hollow lead bullet.
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