Do I Need To Clean Ar 15 Muzzle Break

alphadogg56 · May 12, 2014

Just my 2 cents ...If your meticulous an I believe y'all are I'd have information technology re crowned so cerakoted, of grade you might have to have information technology re timed .could exist there was a corrosive in there when the two parts were connected.rust untreated continues to become worse.i would exist willing to bet your not the but one with this trouble , just they don't know yet....I would say thats lucky you looked and I think information technology'southward something I will monitor on my braked firearms from now on since I don't think most brakes are removed to cerakote. By the manner stainless does corrode to a lesser exstent. Id say practiced luck , but heck your toten a 408 your already lucky.only if it doesn't carp you an y'all treat information technology so it doesn't get worse information technology probably won't affect accuracy unless information technology reaches your rifling.

M40_A1 · May 12, 2014

I recall the lightbulb only came on.
I utilize kroil oil, and butches diameter shine to make clean the barrel, and light oil last for storage. I usually run a rag through the ports in the brake to wipe out the solvent. Merely, the manner the brake is designed, I tin can't bear on the cage. The ammonia in the butches bore shine probably had an effect on the face of the muzzle.

I guess, you lot live and larn....

That's why I asked. If Butches has ammonia in it, that would exist my judge.
Does a shoulder on the restriction interface with the muzzle? I'm wondering why the pitting would exist all directions around the cage, not just at the bottom. An interface is the only affair I can think of that might cause the solvents to wick all the way around the face similar that.

Morale_Gear

If yous shoot a lot without removing and cleaning the brake, eventually yous volition become a decent amount of carbon buildup. That will need to be removed or it may eventually start effecting accuracy.

I've never had pitting on the terminate of a barrel like that earlier.

Nostradumbass · May 12, 2014

I concur. Flame cutting would normally get out some blazon of observable design.

I know what you mean....I'll only keep shooting and monitoring the indications. Fwiw, the burglarize leans at an angle in the safe, and if it were the ammonia cleaner, I would think information technology would be to ane side due to gravity....

Oh yes, I as well talked to rock creek barrels, and they told me a test was done with submersing a stainless butt in ammonia, and after X corporeality of hours, NO corrosion was ever visible....he said the ammonia would evaporate before it attacked the steel. Keep in listen I did not conduct this experiment personally.

M40_A1 · May 13, 2014

Oh yeah, I also talked to rock creek barrels, and they told me a exam was done with submersing a stainless barrel in ammonia, and later X amount of hours, NO corrosion was ever visible....he said the ammonia would evaporate earlier it attacked the steel. Keep in mind I did not conduct this experiment personally.

Run across, now, I've heard the opposite. When using Sweets we were told as long equally the solvent was wet there was no danger of the stainless being attacked. It was only after the Sweets was dry that oxygen and moisture could combine with the residuum, forming an acid that would attack stainless. I question if immersion in an ammonia based solvent proves anything, only it sounds smashing for marketing. Or perhaps my information is wrong?

DocUSMCRetired

You are right. The 1 affair I was told by many, many BR shooters is never leave Sweets (I guess information technology applies to any ammonia based solvent) in the diameter long enough to dry. No soaking...wipe it in, wipe information technology (or brush) out, affluent with Hoppes.
What I call back may exist happening is carbon deposits are being superheated similar the embers of a fire. So I guess in a sense information technology might exist flame related by heating the carbon to the point it's burning in to the steel. I would nevertheless expect to meet more of a pattern though.

Employ boretech and y'all will never look back.