How often do you clean you HMR moderator?

[Evil Elvis]

Im a bit annoyed with myself that I have let my mod burn out after less than 1000 rounds....I had no incling that it would, ive never read anywhere that you get a build up of toxic sludge in them!!!!!! .What do you lot do? Be honest? Edited September 21, 2009 by Evil Elvis

[docholiday]

I was informed by the maker (ACE) that it should be about a thousand rounds

Doc

[Evil Elvis]

I just dug the box out for mine....says ...NOWT!!!!! :yp:

[George1990]

Only fired a few hundred through mine, but I have cleaned it a couple of times just because I like to get them out the cabinet and play with them

 

It was very dirty both times though just after those few rounds, and after your experience I'll keep cleaning it!

 

Oh yeh you have a Sirocco mod too don't you? In that case i'll deffo clean it often!

[MC]

I have just removed mine and after about 500 rounds there is a bit of soot in it and a tiny ammount of erosion but nothing serious or anything worth worrying about.

 

Mine is a SAK.

[George1990]

That's quite good then. The Sirocco fills up with gritty black sludge

[Mungler]

I had a sludge incident with my old .223 and a T8; being lazy I would just put the gun away with the mod on it.

 

Anyways, I came back to it and a load of **** had discharged from the mod back down the barrel and into the action.

 

I think it's more down to condensation (moving hot to cold for example) than anything else.

 

Now I remove all the centre fire mods religiously, but still leave the .22lr and .17hmr mods on the guns in the cabinet - they don't seem to get affected by it all.

 

As for cleaning mods, they get a tap and a bash and an inspection of what falls out - that's about it.

[pavman]

every 250 rounds and its always a mess so leave it longer at your own risk

[marlin vs]

I clean it after about every 300 round's of .17hmr, and it can be really filthy, the amount of carbon inside it has to be sen to be believed.

[Luckyshot]

Only fired 4000 rounds through my HMR got a SAK mod on it and never cleaned it once, still works fine.