Day of hello's and goodbye's

[Grouse]

I am out of 9mm, and no one local has 10mm. so i will have to just work on the 45.

[titanse05]

I think you made out well. Now was the perfect time to drop the third AR.

[Grouse]

So i spent some time cleaning them today.

The rz10, came apart and went together nicely. Wiped it all down and oiled it with 30wt, and put all back together. The fit and finish is nice. Getting the recoil spring and plug in the slide is a chore. Heh, there were a couple of Sproings and choice words.

The Heritage RZ45, Wow was tighter than an accountants wallet. Jeeebus. How they got it together i do not know. I will have to work it alot to get it smoothed up. I am thinking of applying a bit of bore paste to the rails. But that is only part of it. The barrel and bushing are super snug. The barrel at lock up is even tighter. Oddly enough it has a Brown labeled bushing where as none of my other DW's do. wiped it all down, then oiled and put it back together. I can hardly wait to get it out.


The AT8S well. I poured hoppes into a ceramic container and brushed all the bits down and then let it steep with the lid on for a few hours. I took the slide apart.

Dropped the rear sight out of the dove tail, It had a bit of rust right there. I cleaned a good portion of it off. It looks like i got most of it, but i think i have a bit remaining. It is surface stuff, the size of a pin head. So i will worry about it next week.

I pulled the firing pin and it and the spring were damn near a solid bit of goo. As was the extractor. I started to take the frame apart and realized that i really did not have the time to do that today. I am going to have to dismantle it and do it piece by piece. On the dust cover of the frame i found a bit more surface rust. No pitting under the loop. So it looks like i caught it in time.

I scrubbed the frame down, let it sit, scrubbed it again, blew it off wiped it down and repeated about 20 times. It is now passably clean. I Want to do a bunch more, it really needs to be taken all the way down and cleaned piece by piece. That might allow me to lighten up the DA trigger.

I will take a look a and see if i can clean up the sear if needed. I am not sure if the grittiness is due to the trigger or just built up gunk. Most of the gunk i had to remove with a dental pick, so it is old and nearly rock hard.