Reply With Quotebetter used solvol crome polish removes small imperfectons in bore faster pelet speeds
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ive read bout polishing barrels [internally!]with brasso and the like.....has anyone done it and did it improve things or make things worse...??
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better used solvol crome polish removes small imperfectons in bore faster pelet speeds
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yes i have polished a barrel with brasso , cant say i noticed any differance , you just like to know that you have done it so it must be better ,but didnt notice any major differance at all , i think probobly best to shoot it smooth .
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yes i thought of the solvol stuff too.....mirror polished my other internals with this but wondering if its a bit too harsh for the barrel....i'vbe also got some jewelers rouge at my disposal...
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Jewellers rouge only works at high temperature....like on a 26,000 rpm polisher.Originally Posted by merlin
yes i thought of the solvol stuff too.....mirror polished my other internals with this but wondering if its a bit too harsh for the barrel....i'vbe also got some jewelers rouge at my disposal...
Have you thought of painting your pellets with glue and rolling them in sand
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only by accident.....and thats when i drop lubed pellets on the groundJewellers rouge only works at high temperature....like on a 26,000 rpm polisher.
Have you thought of painting your pellets with glue and rolling them in sand
ive done a bit of lapidary in the past and IME your info is in-correct...tho to be fair that was cerium oxide on stone and metal......thinkj its the same stuff as rouge..
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I might be wrong, but is this not exactly what the VFG cleaning kit does over time?
That uses a sort of very fine lapping paste with a Teflon grease, sounds interesting though.
Got one on order, so we will see
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was thinking along the same lines......i know the LW barrel on my TX is very good as standard but still wondering if they will benefit from the personal touchI might be wrong, but is this not exactly what the VFG cleaning kit does over time?
That uses a sort of very fine lapping paste with a Teflon grease, sounds interesting though.
Got one on order, so we will see
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I don't think you ned to polish the barrel to be honest.
The lands and grooves could be prematurely worn by polishing and over polishing.
I remember many years ago there was a company in america that specialised in barrel polishing but they had special machinery that did a kind of a KAT scan on the internal barrel face so it could spot dips and riplles in the barrel surface and then specifically worked on those areas. They could even give you a graph to show where the imperfections were on your barrel. I think they had the name "star" in their company name.
If you must, be delicate and don't over do it. I would also be inclined to do some long range groups work to see if the polishing is helping or opening up your group and do it every few strokes depending on how you are going to do the polishing.
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I've tried before with T-cut on a bore-cast lead lap, which made appararently no difference.. I've also got some Rouge somewhere, but havn't tried it.
Saying that, the choice of abrasives is often a bit limited and usually blindly selected - to do a proper job you need to be able to determine the surface roughness of the bore and select an appropriate grade of abrasive.
Also, does anyone have any information on the ideal bore finish? It might not neccessarily be mirror polished - although polishing is obviously useful for opening up tight spots that might under size the pellet.
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...Complete waste of time - although it's better to waste a couple of quid on a tin of paste than it is to give some 'airgunsmith' £50 or whatever to 'accurize' your barrel ( I love that term!
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Did you never use rouge on a swansdown mop at 3000 rpm then.Jewellers rouge only works at high temperature....like on a 26,000 rpm polisher.
Have you thought of painting your pellets with glue and rolling them in sand
Try it it works fine on copper, brass and silver.
But then thats possibly why you were a jewellery maker.
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As a last resort you could even take the rifle out in the fresh air and shoot some pellets through it.......
Nooooo - knackers them right up that does...
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