It takes 15 minutes to dis/clean/assemble an AKS74 after shooting a case of corrosive…no pressure washer/steam ginny or autoclave involved.
WTB: all cheap corrosive ammo.
Please show me how its done in 15mins…unless you don’t actualy clean, DRY and relube everything…while leaving salts in the chamber/action. You may be able to clean a barrel in 15minutes…but a rifle…I want see that,
Hot water out of the sink is fine. Steam will not remove the corrosive salts , thats what the hot water is for. For clarification, the salts are in the primer of surplus soviet military made ammo coming out of the green spam cans, and not wolf, brown bear or any other commercially made ammo in the same caliber. Just read the thread IraqGuns posted. It’s all been discussed before.
I field strip and use semi hot water and flood it over everything.
Heat gun to dry it after a good shake.
Bore gets snaked a few times and I give the FCG a squirt of ballistol.
I’ve done it a lot because I shoot it a lot. I’m sure it wouldn’t pass a military inspection[Yes I’ve had those too}but it passes my $700 AK inspection just fine and I’m quite sure I haven’t compromised the weapon in any way. Cheers.
Hmmm… I’ve always cleaned my firearms the old fashion way. Elbox grease, cottons swabs, and patience.
Utrasonic and gun parts dont mix…that is if you want any and all coatings to be stripped off.