TCooper wrote:
I have an old .22cal cleaning rod with a nylon slotted tip that works great. I can insert the paper towel into the slot and twist the rest around the aluminum rod like a big tampon. Once the tube is clean, I use a cotton patch saturated with moly paste and burnish it into the chamber walls with an electric drill. I keep straightening out and loading up the patch with more moly. Then I wipe out the excess. This time, when I tore down the rifle, I just wiped out all the old moly with dry paper towels. Then applied fresh stuff with a patch on the rod.
Man, this is great. I had read previously about burnishing moly into the compression chamber but wasn't too sure. I can do it! I've done similar things in there, I have the tools. I've got a shotgun cleaning rod with a cotton mop, I tape the end of a strip of paper towel to it and wrap it around a la Kenny (RIP). I've got a nylon slotted tip, too. I've wrapped that with blue painter's tape to build it up and make it thick. Then I cut squares of sandpaper, apply spray adhesive to the back of them and adhere them to the painter's tape, to make a cylinder.
I sometimes get the feeling that my Optimus may need a new piston seal, it seems to want frequent drops of silicone. This moly burnishing would be rad. Thank you.