New idea for a Range/Cleaning Rod?

[Maven]

My wife and I were changing over our bedroom curtains earlier today and had to monkey with the hollow, seamless, two-piece stainless steel curtain rod. It suddenly occurred to me that with a bit of modification, e.g., removing the end pc. decorations, inserting a sleeve of some sort, and drilling & tapping it, one would have a very strong and light weight cleaning/wiping rod. Ours expands to fit a 72" window, so they're enough to work with. If you have such a thing that's not being used for its original purpose, you may want to consider it.

 

[TDM]

I think it’s a great idea, I’d give it go and see how it does.

 

[ppg1949]

Maven, I had Ben Hubbard make a H&R style brass collapsible 36 inches long range rod with a 10-32 threaded hole in the end. The cost was $42 including shipping. While I am very pleased with this rod as Ben’s work is excellent, your idea would have worked for me and been much cheaper.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[new2bp]

Warning - mentions of inlines and redneck engineering follow....

Have hankerin for BP shotgun. Am poor. Bought single shot 12ga at pawn shop, a ShortLane adapter, now I have inline 12ga. Need ramrod - the range rod and field rod for my .54 aren't cutting it - they are too skinny and let over shot/over powder wads tip, etc.

Have been eyeballing my stand of black bamboo, lots of potential there. But I have a selfie stick that collapses, but requires a fairly solid push to do so. Gotta figure out a way to attach a head of some type to give me a nice big flat pushing surface (thinkin some hot glue or JB Weld and the base of a 20ga or similar shell, or perhaps a washer, or maybe even jbweld a threaded end in there and use a real jag head... )

 

[R Ellis]

Sounds like you just need a shotgun loading jag to fit the ramrod you have

 

[new2bp]

Sounds like you just need a shotgun loading jag to fit the ramrod you have

Possibly, but my range rod is a big heavy solid brass piece with steel handle, weighs TONS more than the selfie stick. Additionally, with the collapsing stick I don't need to figure out a way to hang it under the barrel, drill the stock, etc. Think finding a way to put the proper threaded bit on the end of the stick and then screwing in a shotgun jag would be the way to go... Just gotta get to the hardware store in the bits-n-bobs-n-fasterners area and see what I can find...

 

[Maven]

FYI, I asked my wife where she got the curtain rod mentioned in my post above: Target (kind of appropriate, don't you think?), but I'm sure there are other sources. Btw, once separated, said rod would yield 2 rods, one for ~.45cals. and one for .50cal and up.

 

[ohio ramrod]

If it works, use it!