Frag Out! Magazine

www.fragoutmag.com all by themselves and evaporate in seconds. Other than that, the Gun Cleaner works as advertized: you can't blame the cleaning itself. With receiver clean and degreased, the time has come for the bore to be cleaned with – you guessed it, a Bore Cleaner compound. The BC bottle comes with an interesting applicator gadget: a rubber tube with four jets in the metal tip at the far end. You sink it all the way into the bore, and start spraying while taking the applicator out. That ensures an even coat of bore cleaner throughout the bore. After that you just leave it alone for a few minutes to let the 'chemistry magic' (easily quarter of a Mendeleyev table – and then some) do its deed and remove all the excess particles from the bore: gilding metal, copper, zinc, powder residues, carbon deposits, lead, you-name-it. Then you insert a weighted end of the pull- through all the way from the muzzle, and screw on a felt cleaning pad onto the threaded end poking from the chamber. Pull it out, using a pull handle from the cleaning kit, and repeat several times until the pad comes out clean. All right, the easy part is done, now the dirty work: piston, gas tube, bolt carrier and bolt. These are taken care of by another magic stuff from the little pouch: a bottle of Carbon Cleaner in atomizer – comes really handy when you have to apply it to the large parts like the bolt carrier or inside the gas tube. Just spray, wrap in cloth to stop it from evaporating too quick, and let it work for you. After several minutes the gunk which used to be hard enough to stop the bolt from locking, goes off with just a touch of cleaning cloth. You wouldn't believe the effect on the gas tube, after I just run a plastic brush through it: I doubt it was ever so clean since my AK emerged from a production line – and you all know how dirty it gets. The Carbon Cleaner's active ingredient would not damage industrial finishes like bluing or Cerakote, but the polyvinyl and other solvent-soluble lacquer paints used for coating some of the internal paints might go. In my AK the lacquer layer got damaged in only one spot of all tested with the Carbon Cleaner: at the front edge of the bolt carrier, around the gas piston pin – so maybe it was just a spotty finish, and not the compound's fault. The Carbon Cleaner is what it is called: a compound to clean the carbon residue, and not a paint remover. But to make doubly sure before you use it – test it on some not visible parts to make sure your paintwork would not be cleaned as well. Not that all is clean and fresh, comes the time to waste it all by smearing it with oil. SchleTec included a bot tle of teflon-additive 2-in-1 Gun Tuning Oil. For application you use an interesting gadget, shaped like a ball-point pen. Af ter screwing of f the tip inside there is a tiny needle, to be used as a precise dropper. Ever y time you press a but ton on the upper end, a single, small drop of oil star ts down the applicator needle – there's no way to drench your rifle in oil with that. You can protectively lubricate the bore with it, with no ill results on the accuracy of the cold shot, it doesn't burn or smoke. When the applicator runs dr y, the oil is supplied by SchleTec in ordinar y bot tles of various size, or in a spray can.

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