DIY: Field Strip and Clean your FS2000 (Picture Intensive)

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One word..... BORESNAKE.

If you own a boresnake you will never use a cleaning rod and small pads again.

[tqtran]

One word..... BORESNAKE.

If you own a boresnake you will never use a cleaning rod and small pads again.

Great for the barrel but it doesn't do anything for the rest of the gun
Everytime I use a Boresnake, I still have to break out the patches to clean the rest of the gun that the Boresnake doesn't clean.
Which is why I don't use a Boresnake anymore and now use an Otis kit.
I'd rather throw away some used patches than have to deal with a gunked up Boresnake.

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Huh?

I clean the rifle as normal including chamber, bolt, etc. When it comes to the barrel, nothing beats a boresnake. I have probably wasted HOURS puting those stinking brushes on my cleaning rod and screwing with those little stupid pads down the barrel to get it clean... no thanks. Two pulls down the barrel and it is completely clean of fowling, including the rifling.

But yeah, the rest of the rifle requires standard cleaning.

[Pachinko Pistola]

Holy PITA. An AR, AK or SCAR is so much easier.

I will attempt this soon, because my F2K is dirty. Thanks for the helpful thread.

[GoufCustom]

Holy PITA. An AR, AK or SCAR is so much easier.

I will attempt this soon, because my F2K is dirty. Thanks for the helpful thread.

The first time cleaning it, it was hard, but take it apart a few times and it is a really easy gun to break down, just needed the special punch to get the gas piston out, other than that it was all hand work, with some assistance from the firing pin.

Great write up too OP.

[GoufCustom]

Fantastic contribution, excellent write-up!

You wear gloves cleaning your guns?!?

Eh, I had them around because I use them to work on my car and I said why not. I wore one set to break down the gun and then spread the break free on the parts, after that I changed to a new set to make sure not to get oil on my gun putting it back together. Just a bit of over kill but I like my FS and wearing gloves made it easy for me to spread the break free .

No really sure why anyone would wear gloves, maybe I am the stupid on, but I never wear gloves while cleaning.

[mjsses]

Thank you for the excellent tutorial! Worked great! Took me a long time as i used to much break free .... lots of fun to get it to just a sheen again. Glad this pictorial was here.