/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.127252]

How can I clean the barrel of a smooth bore BB/pellet gun? It's been sitting around for quite sometime
Pis unrelated

[Anonymous No.127254]

you can get cleaning pellets and you just put them in and shoot them out, they are basically just cotton unless you have something seriously gummed up in there

[Anonymous No.127257]

>>127254

otherwise get some pipe cleaners, that ought to work

[Anonymous No.127261]

Would putting cotton in front of a BB/pellet work? it shoots near 300 fps

[Anonymous No.127265]

>>127261
You can't measure IRL speed in frames per second dude.

[Anonymous No.127266]

Feet per second buddy

[Anonymous No.127267]

>>127252
Small dowel rod with hole in one end or straight coat hanger wire with a loop on the end. Put a piece of cloth through the hole/loop. Apply mineral spirits to the cloth and run it through a few times to get it all around in the barrel. Replace the cloth with a piece of stainless steel wire pot scratcher (non-soap kind). Scrub the hell out of it if you have lots of rust. Use cloth with mineral spirits to clean it out again. Then use a second cloth with gun oil or whatever oil you have to coat the inside of the barrel.

[Anonymous No.127270]

>>127261

no that wont scrub the sides, do like the other guy says with the mineral spirits and stuff

[Anonymous No.127272]

>>127267

This, and be sure to oil it up afterward for maximum fps.

[Mr. Loki No.127279]

BB s are .177 Cal. Get a .17 HMR cleaning kit at your local gun shop. Or as a last resort you can probably get one at Walmart....I would do the right thing and support your local ( legal ) gun dealer.,...... FUCK CORPORATE GREED,... buy from local businesses.

[Anonymous No.127284]

DO NOT use a coat hanger, you will scratch up the barrel.
Go with the gun cleaning kit, you will get all the oils, solvents, brushes and cleaning patches you need with the kit.

[Anonymous No.127285]

Alright guys
Thanks for the info

[Anonymous No.127289]

>>127257
dont fucking listen to this kid

>>127261
no, dont do that.

>>127267
dont listen to this guys either

>>127279
ohh look at this edgy rebel kid. such a faggot. but hes right about buying a cleaning kit, just not about whatever else he says.

>>127284
this

[Anonymous No.127299]

>>127289

[Anonymous No.127305]

>>127284
>DO NOT use a coat hanger, you will scratch up the barrel.

It's a BB gun with smooth bore, not a rifled barrel. Plus, if there's no jagged edges you can't gauge the metal let alone scratch it. Even steel wool is not going to hurt it. I know I've done that very thing for years with BB rifles.

[Anonymous No.127311]

>>127252
>pis unrelated

[Anonymous No.127349]

>>127266
>fps
>feet per second

Seriously, of all the real acronyms I thought of, that was the LAST one I thought of.

Seriously, start to use the fucking metric system like the rest of /diy/ does.

I an answer to your question, dunk the whole gun in cleaning alcohol or high strength vodka (I'm assuming it's handgun sized) and then rinse with water, and then air dry.

[Anonymous No.127358]

>>127349
> start to use the fucking metric system like the rest of /diy/ does.
>mfw

[Anonymous No.127368]

>>127349

[Anonymous No.127371]

Feed a cotton string down the barrel, tie a fragment of cleaning cloth or cotton rag to the threaded string, douse in oil or alcohol, and pull it through.

[Anonymous No.128354]

What I am going to get...
It's the cheapest one, comes with everything and it has the word "local" in the URL

http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/5/SportsRec/1/Hunting/GunCleaning/PRD~0755400P/Outers+Universa
l+Gun+Care+and+Cleaning+Kit.jsp?locale=en