Another cleaning question

Should I be removing the vent liner when I clean my flinter? I never do that amount of take down detail and I am thinking that maybe I should.

 

[boar]

You don't have to,But I always check mine to make sure I can get it out in field if I have to. I clean mine if I do a bunch of shooting. Dilly

 

[cowpoke1955]

I really don't know myself, but I don't. Been shooting and cleaning that rifle for 10 years with no problems.

 

[J.D.]

IMHO, you would be better off leaving in place. Flushing some water through the TH on the rinse cycle and drying with a pipe cleaner should be enough to keep the vent clean.

 

[MikeChapin]

I set my rifles up to not be able to pull the touch hole liner. All of them are put in with Lock-Tite and I take them down so there is no slot. The only time they come out is when they need to be replaced. For that I use a little heat and an easy out.

 

[MSW]

i agree with mike... if it 'aint broke...

so long as you run a pipe cleaner through it after you clean the rifle, you should be OK- i've never had a problem with any of my vent liners, and i only remove them when they wear our, which is every three decades or so.

i did put locktite on the rifles i've built, and these guys are newer than my T/C flinter (which really is thirty years old, as near as i can tell). i just don't want to run the risk of having something blow out while i'm standing next to, say, the police chief's kid at the range. bummer...

 

[Old Charlie]

I pull my liner every time I clean the gun. I take a q-tip and get a lot of black burnt powder out of the threads. I think if it will corrode the rest of the gun it will do the same for those threads.
Old Charlie

 

[Many Klatch]

I think you should leave the vent liner alone. Clean the gun but don't mess with the liner. If you ever cross thread it or forget to screw it back in you could have a catastrophe. If the liner blows out it will deafen you and kill the shooter next to you. I don't really care whether you go deaf, but I don't want to be the poor soul standing to your right.

Many Klatch

 

[roundball]

Should I be removing the vent liner when I clean my flinter? I never do that amount of take down detail and I am thinking that maybe I should.

In my personal opinion, stainless steel 1/4" x 28 TC vent liners are no different than the stainless steel 1/4" x 28 TC nipples in a caplock, and I treat my vent liners just like I treated nipples in my caplocks.

I first pump flush "through" them, then spin them out, and pump flush through the thread seat.

After everything is clean and bone dry, I apply a little NL1000 on the seat threads with a Q-tip, then put some NL1000 on the vent threads themselves, and reinstall.