Hoppe’s #9 to the rescue!

My kitchen is a mess. More specifically the appliances. The stovetop has crusts all over the surface, kitchen cabinets with oil stains from all the frying, and the eyesore of all, the microwave. Situated right above the stove top. It’s all grimy with years of uncleaned oil and what not.

I’ve been struggling to find a solution to this mess other than buying new kitchen appliances.

Every respectable gun-owner knows that Hoppe’s is the universal cleaner. It’s the magical solvent that melts through carbon, grime and lots of unwanted stuff, yet is able to keep important surfaces, like polymer & wood, untouched.

So tonight, I put that to the test once again. On my Microwave oven!

here’s how the front looks like, the sticky oil residue. So hard to scrub away with traditional cleaners. Trust me, I tried.

The bottom part of the door again showing all the yuck:

so I applied the Hoppe’s using my cotton patches (of course), and scrubbed it with a sponge scrubber :

and wiped it with a dry Bounty towel. Here it is, all clean! Just like magic! and it only took less than 3 minutes:

and the shiny front door :

The oil and grime came off as quick as carbon residue from my guns. MIRACULOUS!

Oh Hoppe’s #9. You are my savior and I’ll never doubt your abilities ever again.

Look at how clean it is now! LNIB!!

The best part, my kitchen now smells of Hoppe’s!! SWEET!

Some high-end horse-trading!

So to fund the silencer for my new Ruger 22/45 that I purchased recently, I had to sell my Kimber Eclipse Pro II. Tried selling it online and after a few days, took a little negotiation and lots of back-and-forth with multiple prospects, I landed on a trader who would give me part cash and a gun with accessories.

The gun he wanted to trade was a Glock 29 in 10mm, DeSantis OWB holster, with 4 mags, Pearce magazine extensions and 100+ rounds of ammo. I thought, since I’ve never had a chance to own the caliber of the gods (10mm), I decided to take the offer.

Here’s the gun:

You can imagine a small gun like that shooting full powered 10mm rounds isn’t going to be a very good feeling. That said, it would make an awesome defensive pistol. I never got to shoot it though, I cleaned the gun and quickly listed it back up on our local gun forums. Within a few hours, it was sold.

The buyer offered to trade for a LNIB (Like-New-In-Box) Glock 17 Gen 4 with a Lone Wolf threaded barrel. Since it’s sort of a fair trade, and I would rather have a newer Glock 17 with a threaded barrel instead of a gun that I might not shoot, I accepted.

Here it is all detail stripped and ready for cleaning :

After cleaning and lube :

Now do I keep this or sell it? hrmmm maybe I could use a suppressed 9mm platform.

Get some shine this holiday season–Polishing my S&W 625JM

Boredom can be a very dangerous thing, especially when you are into firearms. You start pulling out your toys and think about all the things you’d want to do with it. Modify the sights, lighten the trigger pull and polishing the stainless.

For me, I got hit by the red-neck virus. I’ve always loved a highly polished stainless revolver and since I had time and I had one revolver that I wasn’t shooting this coming season, decided to take a sandpaper, some polishing compound and lots of elbow grease.

here’s the S&W 625 JM before doing anything to it :

First day I started using 600 grit sandpaper and using my fingers, started working on the cylinder. Here’s how it looked like after two hours of hard work.

Then I couldn’t help it but to work on the sideplate, just to see how nice it would look like :

Not too bad but definitely needs more work. By this point, my thumb and shoulders were all bruised up and tired. so I called it a night and stopped.

Next day visiting my buddy Dave’s home, found out he had a polishing/buffing wheel and brought me out to see if it’ll work.

of course it will!! this will save me a ton of time. I quickly rushed home and brought my half done revolver over. This is what it looks like after 5minutes!!

Definitely much faster and so much more efficient. It covers all the large rounded areas very well, but the smaller tighter spaces I’d have to use my fingers and do it manually. So after about an hour on the buffing wheel and then some manual work on the trigger, hammer and cylinder release latch. All done. Now to relube, reassemble and retune the trigger pull.

Here’s the finished product :

And the reflection.. ahhhhhhh..

 

what do you think?

The Silenced Ruger Project

Ever since the Washington state law concerning the legal use of silencers/suppressors was changed in July, I’ve considered getting one. It has many uses from home defense, to plinking, but my ultimate goal was because it’s so frigging cool!

I sold my old Ruger Mark III and bought a new Ruger 22/45 with the threaded barrel and rail from West Coast Armory (Thanks Matt for helping with the paperwork)

Here are some pics from the unboxing.

pretty cool soft case :

All wrapped:

Ugh, the factory lube is nasty:

Extra magazine and lock:

Of course, the first thing I did was the strip, clean and lube, here it is complete :

And the thread protector where you’d screw in a silencer :

Next step is to get a red-dot or scope and a this beauty :

The AAC Prodigy.