Let me see how this goes. Post comments about anything unclear or something I omitted. Cleaning is a very touchy subject everyone has their own way and what they do so bear in mind. I will say this that if you have access to an air compressor it is a great thing to have to blow dirt out of small pieces. When I decide to to an armorer level cleaning I go to my brother's house and use the compressor. This what I have described is just a good general cleaning that you can do every time you shoot or about every three like me.
1. Gather your supplies. I use my trusty army issue cleaning kit, Newspapers, rubber gloves, Q.tips, bore snake, and some old tshirts.
2. I use both Hoppes No. 9 and Break Free. I clean with break free and condition with Hoppes.
3. Make sure weapon is clear. This is a Kimber Custom II.
4.Disassembly is critical use supplied bushing wrench to remove the recoil sping plug/plunger from the recoil spring. The spring has a lot of tension so please be careful.
5. Slide the slide to the half moon notch so you can remove the slide release.
6. This is a disassembled 1911.
7.I clean from the bottom up Lower receiver, Slide, small parts, then barrel.
8. I spray a good amount of Breakfree onto the worst areas and the scrub with multipurpose brush and wipe with a t-shirt till clean.
9. I use Hoppes on a q-tip for final detail work.
10. I use a brass brush to do a good clean-up of the firing pin face plate.
11. The small pieces get some Hoppes on them then wiped dry.
12. Barrel, lots of schools of thought on what works best. I like a cleaning snake. I double mine up since it is made for a .22 to clean the barrel.
13. Reassembly Barrel in the slide.
seat the guide rod.
Put recoil spring on guide rod, the spring should grip the rod.
Lower receiver on the slide taken to the half moon notch.
Put safety on for final assembly. Using bushing wrench to put in plug and lock in with bushing.
14. Function check cock weapon release safety, squeeze trigger, weapon should fire. Step 2. Holding trigger cycle the weapon. When trigger listen for a metallic thunk, the fire weapon.
15. Final wipe down with silicone cloth an in a gun sock it goes and back to the safe.
Cleaning a Pistol (1911) 56k No Way!
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