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Air Gun Home Forum Index » Pellets/Ammo » inexpensive safe rifle rod to remove jamed pellets    View previous topic :: View next topic  inexpensive safe rifle rod to remove jamed pellets   Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:58 pm donec Senior Member Joined: 19 Dec 2009 Posts: 836 Location: central Texas Pflugerville area I have been looking at cleaning kits for some time now and all of them are too expensive or I have concerns about them damaging the barrels. The from this forum I found about using weed whacker line to make a pull through and it works perfectly except you can not use it to get a pellet out of the barrel and all the rods I have found are too hard and could hurt the barrel of airguns or too expensive. My answer is I went to Jo-Annn's a sewing store and in their crafts department I bought a 1/8 th X 36 inch dowel for $0.29 and it fits the .177 barrel real well. I took some heat shrink that I got from Harbor Freight just to protect the dowel from getting scratched and to make it a little stronger. Works like a charm.   Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:38 pm packrat Senior Member Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 882 Location: Out in the woods...Ellabell, GA. What's the cause of the pellets jamming?? I wouldn't think it would happen so often that you need to fabricate a tool for removing them...?? _________________ HEY !! This getting old thing is NOT for sissies...   Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:01 pm donec Senior Member Joined: 19 Dec 2009 Posts: 836 Location: central Texas Pflugerville area packrat wrote: What's the cause of the pellets jamming?? I wouldn't think it would happen so often that you need to fabricate a tool for removing them...?? It just needs to happen once. It doesn't happen often but when it does you need to remove them and they happen more when you run low on co2 in fact it has never happen any other time or any other type gun yet, for me so I don't want to spend money on a rod that I may never need but if I do I want something that will work and not damage the gun, hence the homemade rod.   Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:40 am kanyon Silver Status Member Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 1582 Location: New Zealand I use if needed... 3mm Alloy tig filler rod...   Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:02 am packrat Senior Member Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 882 Location: Out in the woods...Ellabell, GA. OK, I got cha!! I read somewhere about a guy that had bought a wooden dowel at a "craft store" to use for that, in case he ever needed it. seems like wood would be a safe bet _________________ HEY !! This getting old thing is NOT for sissies...   Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:30 am Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA I use a rod made from a plastic-coated wire coathanger. Besides pushing pellets out (like when polishing the muzzle crown), it also works with cotton swabs for cleaning .177 caliber. Use the cheap swabs with the hollow plastic shaft. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:23 pm fritz Silver Status Member Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 2442 Location: New Jersey- outside of Philadelphia Damn you Slavia, stop hanging out with MacGuyver. _________________ "I never set out to be wierd, it was always everyone else who called me it" -Frank Zappa Speed is impressive, accuracy is deadly. It's not that I'm not a people person, it's just that I'm not a stupid people person.   Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:34 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA Quote: Damn you Slavia, stop hanging out with MacGuyver. Where do you think he gets his ideas? _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:52 pm fritz Silver Status Member Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 2442 Location: New Jersey- outside of Philadelphia You are the master, Slavia. _________________ "I never set out to be wierd, it was always everyone else who called me it" -Frank Zappa Speed is impressive, accuracy is deadly. 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