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| jeff408 |
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| Would it hurt anything on a springer to cock the rifle and while barrel is still cocked run WeaponShield through on patches with weedeater line?Making sure not to get any on piston seals. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:14 am |
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| For long term storage or just maintenance? |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:17 am |
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| Would it hurt anything on a springer to cock the rifle and while barrel is still cocked run WeaponShield through on patches with weedeater line?Making sure not to get any on piston seals. |
For safety's sake any time you have the gun cocked with the barrel open you should have your hand on the barrel to prevent it from accidentally snapping shut. This would be true for either cleaning or loading. It also leaves only one hand to manage the cleaning stuff (unless you have a friend).
It might be better to see if you can just crack the barrel open (without cocking it) and get the weedeater line in there. WeaponShield won't hurt the barrel (assuming the seal isn't contaminated), but you don't need it. Airguns don't have the heat, pressure, copper fouling, or combustion residue that firearms do. A household cleaner/degreaser like 409 or Windex will work just fine.
Also, prepare for several dozens of shots before it returns to its previous zero. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:46 am |
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 I personally only clean my barrels when accuracy starts to drop off. It's probably every 1000 shots or so. I have some guns that have never been cleaned. I've never cleaned my CO2 guns. I just put a droplet of pellgun oil on the end of every 5th cartridge or so. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:38 pm |
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| Its for maintenance I dont see this gun sitting unused for too long. This will be my 1st real (springer)pellet gun and I didnt realize I could just crack open the barrel which I will definitely do instead of cocking. I basically want to run something through it before I shoot it to make sure there is nothing harmful the barrel. After that I'll probably do like you say and just clean when accuracy drops off. I had been reading about how not to use anything petroleum(not sure if Weaponshield is petroleum) or it might diesel. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:21 pm |
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I think it's a good idea to clean the barrel before you use it as well
My last two have been horribly filthy. I pushed out machining chips, sand and the usual brown guck preservative. I assume the sand was blasting media of some kind.
I also tore these guns down to do a basic lube tune before using them and found the same sand material in the tube...loads of it.
For the barrel I use cleaning felts and a 5mm plastic rod which works perfect for pushing felts through. On the first cleaning I dip the felts in brakleen to break up the preservative oils.
Brakleen is very safe, will not harm any synthetic seal and is non combustible (A variant of It was used in fire extinguishers) |
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