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Fishboyat

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Hey all hope you're in good health, I recently acquired a T/C OMEGA, I don't know any thing about its past besides it had been shot and never cleaned. As far as cleaning goes I've let the Bore sit with solvent in it, used soapy water with Baking soda, I even made a concaution with bore solvent mixed with baking soda. And the thin layer of rust won't come out which the barrel has shallow pitting near the breach and muzzle with none in-between here are some crappy photos
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and the rust is a redish brown. Any advice will be help full thank you all
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Go to the car parts store and get the valve grinding compound. I use the two part with course and fine pastes. Get a smaller jag and some green scratch pads, cut a small square, put the grinding compound on the square and polish away. I check after 200 strokes with each to see how much more is needed.
 
Valve grinding compound will remove the high spots, might smooth edges on some of the pitting but pits will remain. Accuracy may be fine, but pitting will hold onto fouling and crud will build up. Still a shooter but swabbing every few shots may be required.
 
I just did a CVA plainsman barrel that was shot and never cleaned, was thinking about having it bored out to a .54 smoothbore. After polishing I took it out and shot it 20 times with no cleaning between shots and it cleaned up just like all my other BP guns. Shot good too. The barrel still looks like crap and I might still have it bored smooth just cause I want a smaller smoothbore.
 
Just comes up first on the search.

I've gone by reviews for lots of things, it's has good review.

I read if it was used for this. Found a topic where it was used with success.

Good luck anyway.
 

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Hey all hope you're in good health, I recently acquired a T/C OMEGA, I don't know any thing about its past besides it had been shot and never cleaned. As far as cleaning goes I've let the Bore sit with solvent in it, used soapy water with Baking soda, I even made a concaution with bore solvent mixed with baking soda. And the thin layer of rust won't come out which the barrel has shallow pitting near the breach and muzzle with none in-between here are some crappy photos View attachment 351186and the rust is a redish brown. Any advice will be help full thank you allView attachment 351185
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Hey all, Thank you for taking your time and giving me advice. I will most likely use 0000
Steel wool or a Big 45 pad along with evapo rust. And if that dosent work well enough, I'll use a valve lapping compound. Once I get the supplies to do these things I will update yall.
 
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why bother the gun will shoot better then you can hold the gun I used at shooters round up last went 200 plus rounds without a problem cleaned at the end of the first day with cold water nothing added shot all day on sunday without a hitch and was breaking clay pidgin's at 25 yards with ease
 
Most of the stuff mentioned here will work on the surface rust and shallow pits. I've read on this forum over the years that many have barrels that look like old gas pipe but shoot incredibly well. Get the surface stuff off so it looks better to you and then go shoot it and see how it performs.
 
Since it is not a closed end barrel

tie a cloth or steel wool or something on a long string, run the string through the barrel, pulley on one end, drive pulley on the other hooked to electric drill

tie both ends together

put your compound on the cloth or steel wool and set it up so it can pull it through the barrel, go around the pulley and then you can just watch it clean and polish

should be fun not tedious
 
I purchased a double barrel swivel rifle a year or so ago. Both barrels were loaded with rust, so I figured while it was an interesting rifle the odds of me ever actually using it was slim. Even got a container of Evaporust but never got around to using it.
Recently came across the posting by Phil Coffens in the smoothbore forum called " Adventures with Evaporust". Took notice of the video there and decided to give it a try on the bores (couldn't hurt). 1.4 oz. of A&H Laundry, 3.5 oz of Pure Citric Acid and 36 fluid ounces of warm water with a bit of Dawn dish soap. Carefully poured it into the barrels (didn't want to see what it would do to the bluing ???) then waited an hour before rinsing it out.........Unbelievable ..... Seriously ..... both barrels are clear of any rust and are clean as a whistle. Camera is not that great hopefully you will be able to see the results. WZ

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This was a post I made back Aug. 29th. The bath isn't as hard on the metal as vapor rust and it is amazing. Citric acid from Amazon the other components from any store. No real soak time required less than an hour. Better to not let it stand in the barrel unlike Vapor rust. ZEE
 

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