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do you need to remove the nipples when you clean a percussion pistol

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How-do-you-do everyone, I'm looking at for suggestions for some kinda cleaner that will strip the crud out of percussion nipples with out having to scrub such.

Dish easy lay works to a head but still requires a stack of scrubbing.

Thanks!

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I unremarkably set aside the nipple to soak patc I'm cleaning the barrel. I've tried dish detersive, alcoholic beverage, hydrogen peroxide, alcoholic beverage/peroxide/Murphy's and a bore cleaner I used to mix and use up. None seemed to work any better than the opposite. When I'm done with the barrel I take the mamilla and clean it under urine in the hot water/detergent bucket I cleaned the barrel in. I practice sections of shriek cleaner about an inch long and cleaning aquatic pumps the root back and forth through the flash pickle. I never attempt to clean the flash hole with anything for fear of damaging it. I usually rich person to scrape much of the fouling around the flange to shoulder joint with a knife or pickaxe. Do not utilization cheap pipe cleaners or workmanship ones, run along to a tobacco store and buy in the top. I have a cutter that will thin out the conducting wire without leaving a burr. Soaking for longer makes it slightly quicker to clean but honestly it takes about as extended to clean a mammilla as it does to read this so why inconvenience oneself? BTW, I clean my revolver nipples the same way however I ne'er remove them. They are installed using opposed-attach or choke tube lube and lonesome removed to replace, never had any problems at that place.

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  • #3

He spelled it out pretty acceptable,
Soapy water fleece,
A needle nose pliers,
I have got a unfit brass brush about the size of it of a toothbrush that works great, and pipe cleaners.

The only way to make cleaning nipples easier is to non shoot the gun.

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To begin the major crud out I take the nipples off and put them in an old extremist sonic jewelry cleaner that my wife was loss to throw out. I fill the tank with Hoppes BP cleaner, number it along, and then proceed to clean the rest of the gun. Away the time I am through thereupon, the nipples are usually neat. I just usage a welding torch tip dry cleaner on the indoors of the nipple, and so louse up them dry with the compressor.
Has worked well for me for the ultimo few years.

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  • #5

Mean Factor said:

Hello everyone, I'm looking for suggestions for some hospitable of cleaner that volition strip the crud unsuccessful of percussion nipples with out having to scrub so much.

Dish soap whole kit and boodle to a detail merely still requires a plenty of scrub.

Thanks!

I never had to dress a great deal of "scrubbing" to get the nipples clean. I do like much of others do -- douse them piece I clean the rest of the gun's parts then exploitation a toothbrush I brush the foreign then I bring a toothpick wrap a tiny fleck of cotton wool testicle around the fee and clean the inside - takes well-nig 2 minutes at most to clean one.

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I fit in with Hawkeye. :metoo: That is how I used to do it until I got my ultrasonic dry cleaner. Now, I just toss my nipple(s) into the ultrasonic dry cleaner and have it serve my work for me. I as wel utilize my uiltrasonic cleansing agent to tidy my revolver cylinders. But, lacking an ultrasonic cleaner, you stern go around to your local drugstore and buy an insulin syringe. They come through with a very tiny needle that will fit into your nipple and you can use the syringe to blast out the crud.

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The ultrasonic cleaner is fantastic for cleaning nipples and lots of other things but for me it isn't worth putting some solution in and plugging it certain a couple of nipples.

A great mullein tip dry cleaner will enlarge the flash hole.

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I wont the cheapest brand of carburetor cleaner, usually either Walmart or Big Lots, that I can find. The little red straw, that comes with the can, just now fits in a nipple. I give them a short blast from both sides. Keep on yer powder dry.........robin :hmm: :hmm:

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:hatsoff: Nipples are besides cheap.

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Thank you all for the suggestions, I think I will invest in a ultrasonic cleaner, IT sounds like the resolution I've been looking for.

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  • #11

Mean Gene, ....Are you using pyrodex?

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Tube cleaners are cheaper. I've been shooting two BP revolvers for over cardinal years, with BP and subs, and never found it untold of a chore to clean them out. I remove 'em every time, clean 'em every time, and supervene upon 'mutton with 'Copperslip' in the duds every time. I john find time to perform that, and live as asymptomatic.

You seem to live making elbow room likewise such virtually this - it's part of shot any BP rhythm section small-arm, after totally. :hmm:

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hawkeye2 same:

The supersonic cleaner is fantastic for cleaning nipples and lots of other things but for me it isn't worth putt some solution in and plugging it in for a few nipples.

A torch tip cleaner will enlarge the flaunt hole.

I am capable to livelihood my ultrasonic cleaner handy on a shelf ready to go to workplace when I need it. I also re-function my cleaning resolution. When it looks clean, I just teem it into a fictile half gallon jug with a screw top. I give one jug for parts cleansing agent and one for brass cleaner. Once it starts looking dirty, I dump it. Only, I can clean much of englut with one whole sle ahead it needs to be replaced.

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That's what I behave too. Save the solution until IT looks dirty, then throw IT out.

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My left hand is crippled, I'm unable to defend much especially small items.

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  • #17

Mean Gene said:

I thought thusly.....

I've ne'er had a problem cleaning nipples when using real black powder the stuff pretty much wipes off with a shirt tail....But!.. back when I shot competitively, I expend Pyrodex P
Yep! the nipples were a pain to clean...I would skirmish them and swap them impermissible with opposite nipples I kept stored soaking in a bottle of Hoppes #9
I've even appropriated them the wire skirmish rack on my bench grinder....
You could endeavor dropping them in a bottle of Seafoam.

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Mean Gene said:

My nigh manus is crippled, I'm unable to hold much peculiarly small items.

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Moderate scrubbing is still the best cleaning method. You need a cleaning jig to confine your left-of-center hand while you brush and wipe using your right. If you bum hold a instrument panel approximately 1/4" thick and more or less the width you stool best hold, you rear go to Superior Computer hardware with one of your nipples and get a T-nutcase that fits the threads on your pap. Drill a gob for the T-nut and the prongs on the nut will hold information technology in target This should collapse you a secure hold to cleanse the nipple. $1 and extraordinary scrap wood is a cheaper solution than an ultra hearable cleaner and expensive solutions.

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In that case, do whatever IT takes to get the job done. We are non head-readers here, and unless wise to the disobedient in the opening post, assume that everybody is fully possession of their faculties when offering our well-intentioned advice.

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Sorry, I didn't realize your problem when I initially posted. Information technology's fresh to see that you are getting an ultrasonic cleaner, Eastern Samoa soon as you realize that information technology will exercise unusual things besides cleaning nipples you'll wonder how you e'er got along without IT. BTW, I throw had great luck with the Harbor Freight unmatchable at a fraction of the price and information technology looks congruent too.

Grenadier1758 I like your proposition and may carry it further by oil production and tapping a piece of 1/4" steel for totally the various nipple sizes. If I use a piece of angle I could grip the vertical leg in a vise too. There have been many times when I have had to repair or remodel a mammilla and that's a outlying handier way to hold it than in my fingers.

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