pulthrough for airpistol

yana · Post by **yana** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:10 am

I'd like to clean out the barrel of my new Aeron Spider. Its my experience, that most new barrels contain loads of preservative grease that must be removed.
However, I tried shooting cleaning felt. They came out clean.
On another airgun, I tried the cleaning rod (with felts) after shooting felts and those felts came out very dirty after all!
Dunno why but in my experience, shooting felts doesnt clean much..
So I'm looking for a GOOD pullthrough.
I dont want to remove any compensator/barrel, just to clean as it is.
I looked at the VFG match pocketset, which looks great, bút my aeron has very limited space at breechend. There's only about 5mm of space so that adapter+felt will never fit. Bore snake, same problem.
Anyone any ideas/tips for a GOOD and easy pullthrough?
I tried fishing thread once, horrible, it gets stuck, builds up..

Bob-Riegl · Post by **Bob-Riegl** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:48 am

Go to a Home Dopey or Lowes and look in the garden department for plastic "grass trimmer" line. When you get home cut a 12-16" piece of the line---with a knife end (heat it over a flame) and touch the hot end to one end of this line carefully. It will melt the end of the line and form a small button end---take the other end and cut it at a sharp angle---now take a .22 caliber cleaning patch ( 0.5" x 0.5") pierce the patch on the sharp end and slip it down to the button end. Now you have a "pull through" that you can change the patches as well as clean out your barrel. DO NOT use a "Bore Cleaner" as the residue may further foul your barrel---a good cleaner for AP is called TSI 301---it cleans and lubricates and DOES NOT leave any residue. "Doc"

Rover · Post by **Rover** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:52 am

I'm lazy, so I just break the end off Q-Tips and shoot them into the trash.

If I wanted to get crap and lube out of the bore I would wet them with a solvent such as lighter fluid. I would use carburetor cleaner because I have it. Nothing is needed after the intial cleaning.

Be careful if you do this with FWB65s or SSPs for fear of dieseling.

Pat McCoy · Post by **Pat McCoy** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:04 pm

Or you can find someone who restrings rackets (tennis, racketball, squash) and get pieces of old strings from them. Use TSI301 for solvent, and only one or two wet patches after each tin of pellets will take care of you.