Suppressor cleaning day

[Belt Fed]

The dead air mask is a nice suppressor but a PITA to clean. this one has about 2000 rounds through it. now this is after 30 minutes in the ultrasonic cleaner. hate to see what it looked like before but didn't think about it. just threw it in and turned the cleaner on. it don't knock much of the lead off. have to scrape it off. it does soften it up so it's easier. That stack took a little effort to get apart.

 

[Belt Fed]

Now for the alaskan 360, most people never clean rifle cans. i don't very often. baffles in these are non removable. so i just threw it in for 15 minutes and blew it dry and put it back together.

 

[Belt Fed]

The sparrow 22 can is much easier to clean.

 

[Annihilator]

 

[10mmLife]

The dead air mask is a nice suppressor but a PITA to clean. this one has about 2000 rounds through it. now this is after 30 minutes in the ultrasonic cleaner. hate to see what it looked like before but didn't think about it. just threw it in and turned the cleaner on. it don't knock much of the lead off. have to scrape it off. it does soften it up so it's easier. That stack took a little effort to get apart.

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@SimonRL turned me onto cleaning suppressors with white vinegar. It works really well when you soak the baffles in it. Just be mindful that vinegar will damage anodized finihes so dont soak the tube or caps in vinegar.

 

[Belt Fed]

I do use vinegar sometimes. Wanted to try this simple green out. It did ok. Nothing great though.

 

[HayesGreener]

I have not cleaned one in years but soaking in mineral spirits worked as I recall

 

[Belt Fed]

That breakthrough suppressor cleaner works better than anything I've ever seen it really works good but that stuff is like gold it is costly

 

[uspatriot1960]

I use CLR on my steel YHM Phantom. Soak the baffles for like an hour. Almost everything comes off. Usually have to put a couple baffles back in for another soak, but everything then just wipes off. For my AB Little Bird, which has aluminum baffles, I coat them with high temp brake grease. Usually just have to wipe them down. Kind of a pain, but they come out clean. Haven’t bothered cleaning the baffles on my centerfire cans. I do clean the piston on my pistol can and the 3 lug adapter on my PCC can. But those get coated with grease as well. So, I just basically wipe them down and re-coat.