How do you remove the black rings

[RUDY850]

How do you remove the black rings on the cylinder of your revolver.



I have tried all kinds of gun cleaning solvents but they never do anything.What I did find that works is Never dull. Takes about 5 minets to get most of it off.

[Frenchy]

Lots and lots of elbow grease, and a brass brush. when mine are clean, the first time only, i polish them down with 600 grit paper on a glass or hard surface till it looks like a mirror, no groves left, then the cleaning is a lot easyer.
Y9ou will find if you keep no oils or grease on the cylinder, that happens less and is easyer to take off.

[Steve in PA]

Buy a "Lead Away" cloth. A minute or two and the face of the cylinder is like new. I use it on my stainless steel Ruger SRH.

[CJR55]

Hoppes Quick Clean Rust and Lead remover cloth, they work great, no hard scrubbing. just be careful to read the instructions. They can be used on stainless guns but if I'm right the cloths will remove nickel and blued finishes. I use it on my stainless 357 all the time.

[ar15jules]

I use ammonia based RB-17
Jules

[Pa. Patriot]

Buy a "Lead Away" cloth. A minute or two and the face of the cylinder is like new. I use it on my stainless steel Ruger SRH.

+1 Been using them for over 10 maybe 12 years.



Although it looks like the never-dull works about the same

[never_retreat]

Buffing wheel and some red roughe (sp) on the dremel tool. Works perfect with little effort.

[Mity2]

i use mother's aluminum polish.
Its for aluminum, there for no way it can cut too much from Stainless steel cylinder of my 65.
How do you strip cylinder down to JUST cylinder?

[JayBell]

do NOT do this on a titanium cylinder

I had warnings in my Titanium cyl S&W 396 that the titanium will be damaged if you polish the front to remove the rings...gets rid of a special coating there.

[PA Rifleman]

I clean to remove powder residue, and scrub with a bronze brush. That usually gets 95-99% of it. I'm after detectable build-up, not appearance. Whatever remains after cleaning & scrubbing can stay there if it's flat. I never use any type of abrasive, including polish as the cylinder gap is carefully preset and cylinder gap affects barrel pressure.