Dishwasher cleaning??? and volume V weight newbie questions

[davemcg]

You're supposed to use lemon scented dish soap--it leaves your kitchen smelling like a bright sunny summer day! And you won't believe how sparkling clean and fresh your revolver smells, and all the guys at the range will want to know how you do it! :rotf:

Yep. We get together often and discuss whether the lemon scent or pine scent is better. Personally, I like the wildflower scent but you can't always get it. :rotf: :rotf: :bow: :youcrazy:

A feller might want to add a little JET-DRY to keep your gun from getting water spots, that's always a sure source of embarassment at the range when the other guys notice. They might not say anything, but they'll notice to be sure. :grin:

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

Ooohhh the embarrassment!!! :redface:

 

[graybeard]

Despite all the joking, using a dishwasher on a pistol works fine. I have an 1860 Colt replica. Take the wooden handles off. Field strip the pistol into barrel, cylinder and frame. Run a patch with solvent through the barrel a few times and into each chamber. Take the nipples off and clean them separately with a pipe cleaner and solvent. Put the other parts in the dishwasher, with soap, and run on regular cycle. Make sure the barrel and cylinder are straight up and down so they'll get well washed inside. While it's washing, clean the nipples. After the cycle is over, while the metal still is hot, spray it down with WD40, wipe clean and spray with Remoil. Reassemble. There's no odor that I've ever smelled, either before, after or during the wash cycle. You can run it with a regular load of dishes. If your wife objects, offer to do the dishes two nights in a row and defy her to inspect the washer and determine which time you cleaned the pistol. graybeard

 

[Kluson]

many thanks again guys

 

[Blizzard of '93]

buy a gallon of windsheild washer fluid (the winter mix is better due to more alcohol) and fill a spray bottle w/it. remove the grips and cylinder and spray the frame down soaking wet then leave it soak while you spray the cylinder w/the fluid being liberal with the application. go back to frame and spray well again then scrub with a stiff paint brush useing a tootbrush for tight spots. spray more fluid where needed, then rinse off with as hot water as you can stand or dunk into a bucket of same. wipe dry and lube well then turn to cylinder and do likewise to, useing a bore brush in the chambers. remove nipples if you have shot much, scrubbing the recesses with toothbrush. use grease or pipe thread dope or never-seize on the threads when re-assembling.
if you are camped out and wish to do just a quick clean-up use a rag dampened with Go-Jo white hand cleaner to wipe down with, clean the cylinder & pin and re-grease. run a patch damp with Go-Jo in-out of the barrel until clean. assemble the pistol and re-load. this will keep it OK until you have the time to take it down and do a complete scrubbing.
I camp out some and usually take my BP revolvers with me to shoot. I have gone as long as a week of shooting and not completely cleaned my guns but doing a 'quicky' cleaning with Go-Jo white - and this shooting Pyrodex.

 

[philo426]

I don't think using a dishwasher is necessary.Cleaning the cylinders,bore and nipples of a BP revolver isn't really that bad.I use T/C black powder solvent and it does a good job of claning out the gunk.Then I run dry patches through the bore and cylinders until dry followed by oil -soaked ones.The nipples are soaked in BP solvent for awhile then carefully blown-out and oiled before re-installion into the cylinder.