Some rust in my AR barrel... now what?

[outrider58]

Yes, take Obi-Wan Clandestine up on his offer.

 

[babalou]

yup

 

[babalou]

Obi-Wan Clandestine can wave his hand and say " These aren't the rust you are looking for" Just kidding.

 

[clandestine]

LOL at the Obi Wan.

It isn't all peaches and cream to be him, he gets killed by Vader.

 

[clandestine]

I think Teratos is Vader.

 

[babalou]

He has better hair than Vader.


Screws you from behind just the same though

 

[clandestine]

He has better hair than Vader.


Screws you from behind just the same though

I do have some nice hair now.

 

[babalou]

awesome.

 

[outrider58]

Alright you two. What were we talking about? Oh yeah, rusty pipes. Paging Teratos!

 

[Magnumite]

I have a smoothbore shotgun barrel I bought low since it appeared to have rust. I scrubbed it, cleaned it, oiled it, let it set, repeat, ended with dry patching it. What appeared to be pitting was minimized. Next time I checked it same thing, nasty looking 'hair' in the bore with the pitting, I thought it was metal lifting from subsurface rust (it travels underneath the surface sometimes). Same routine, different color patches. I did it so many times O ended up with a clean, smooth bore. Must have been ALOT of rounds rounds through the barrel without cleaning it by the previous owner. I guess it was plastic wad and piwde fouling in layers.

 

[amoebicmagician]

Dissolved copper would come out blue...

greenish, actually.

I know this from personal experience when I thought I had ruined a barrel by leaving a crap load of ballistol in the bore.

Green "pitting" all on the inside.

One pull of the bore snake and all of it came out and left behind the cleanest bore ever.

 

[bkuether]

OK an update!

Took Mr. RRA out today to AGC, at the end of the day.

Put a fairly quick 100 or so rounds through it. Put it away in the case nice and hot, and took it home. Of course also did some BSing with Alex, met Plinkerton, and a heck of a nice guy who drove a convertible and took crap for it for no apparent reason. But I digress.

With the barrel still very warm, (not hot) I ran 5 soaking wet balistol laden patches through it. Did 5 runs of bore brush, and then 3 more wet patches and several dry patches.

Well, whatever was in there is gone. nothing appears to be raised, and the surface seems smooth enough. It must have been REALLY DIRTY because every patch came out with dirt on it, especially after the bore brushing. Thinking my cleaning-foo needs some work.

I am going to monitor it. If it comes back, I will take Clandestine up on his offer to take a look.

Appreciate all of the help and guidance, and even didn't mind that the thread went "somewhere else". That is just how the AGC community works, and I totally love that.

 

[amoebicmagician]

If you want my assistance, well meet somewhere. Let me know.

Chad, you are some kind of human.

Can't blame you for wanting to use your toys though, that borescope is so cool! During class I was all
"This looks great for having so many rounds down it, chrome looks good- wait a minute... NOT MY GAS HOLE!"

I could even see how the copper hugged the ONE SIDE of the grooves that was in the direction the bullet was being forced to spin.

out of this world!

 

[clandestine]

OK an update!

Took Mr. RRA out today to AGC, at the end of the day.

Put a fairly quick 100 or so rounds through it. Put it away in the case nice and hot, and took it home. Of course also did some BSing with Alex, met Plinkerton, and a heck of a nice guy who drove a convertible and took crap for it for no apparent reason. But I digress.

With the barrel still very warm, (not hot) I ran 5 soaking wet balistol laden patches through it. Did 5 runs of bore brush, and then 3 more wet patches and several dry patches.

Well, whatever was in there is gone. nothing appears to be raised, and the surface seems smooth enough. It must have been REALLY DIRTY because every patch came out with dirt on it, especially after the bore brushing. Thinking my cleaning-foo needs some work.

I am going to monitor it. If it comes back, I will take Clandestine up on his offer to take a look.

Appreciate all of the help and guidance, and even didn't mind that the thread went "somewhere else". That is just how the AGC community works, and I totally love that.

My most sincere apologies, I meant no harm. Sometimes trouble follows me.

Chad, you are some kind of human.

Can't blame you for wanting to use your toys though, that borescope is so cool! During class I was all
"This looks great for having so many rounds down it, chrome looks good- wait a minute... NOT MY GAS HOLE!"

I could even see how the copper hugged the ONE SIDE of the grooves that was in the direction the bullet was being forced to spin.

out of this world!

Thank you. I must say your "gas hole" comment has me in tears.