Got a nice Yugo Tok with same brown bet and holster at the gun show in April, along with some surplus ammo. It has the cleaning rod, but no brush. How should I go about cleaning corrosive ammo, and do I need a brush or would just the rod be sufficient?
Cleaning tips for a Yugo Tok
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All good tips. I like to use a 50/50 mix of ammonia and water. Clean the gun with that, dry it out, then clean with regular solvent, if desired, and oil it. One gallon of ammonia lasts for years and is cheap.
BTW, OP, I believe you got that pistol from me. Good to see you here on the forum!
Hey, sorry for the late reply, seeing as your I'm hickory, looks like I did! Cool to see you here too!
Edit: forgot to say this originally but I'll need to check if I have ammonia of not, if I don't I'll get some soon and just use boiling water for now since that seems like it'll work in the meantime
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Ammonia does nothing for the corrosive salts but it does take care of copper fouling. Be careful of the ammonia concentration as too high can etch the barrel.
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All you need is boiling water really. Dry it after and then run your preferred oil over the parts. Hoppes #9 also dissolves corrosive salts. Don’t pay attention to the ammonia/windex tricks, those are pointless.
Fun fact: the British actually built and utilized and angled funnel during WWI to make pouring boiling water down the barrel a lot easier.
Fun fact: the British actually built and utilized and angled funnel during WWI to make pouring boiling water down the barrel a lot easier.
What I used to do when cosmoline saturated milsurps were cheap and everywhere was to hang them upside down in the hot sun for a while. Most of the cosmo would melt and drip off/out of the firearm.