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Post by FNQ » 15 Jul 2019, 11:04 am

Brass vs Nylon brush?

I’ve only ever used Brass but thinking about trying a Nylon.

My brass .30 cal feels lose and warn out in the .303

What the consensus?
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Re: Brushes

Post by bladeracer » 15 Jul 2019, 1:10 pm

FNQ wrote:Brass vs Nylon brush?

I’ve only ever used Brass but thinking about trying a Nylon.

My brass .30 cal feels lose and warn out in the .303

What the consensus?


I only use nylon brushes, but very rarely. Patches and solvent do 99% of my cleaning.
With a really, really grubby barrel, solvent patches wrapped around a bronze brush works well.
Brushes wear out, buy them in bulk and replace them regularly.
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Re: Brushes

Post by brett1868 » 15 Jul 2019, 2:48 pm

Your brush feels loose in the .303 cause it's a slightly larger bore then the .308. I prefer nylon brushes as they are easier to clean but do resort to bronze brushes on occasion for removing stubborn fouling.
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Post by GQshayne » 15 Jul 2019, 7:26 pm

Nylon is the go for use with any copper solvent. Bronze brushes will react with the solvent, turning patches blue even when no copper is present.
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Post by Wm.Traynor » 16 Jul 2019, 2:33 pm

A bronze/brass brush will scour the fouling, allowing the solvent to do a better job but I try to get as much carbon out first, with several patches, before using the B B with solvent on the copper. Patch out and try the nylon brush with solvent followed by a clean patch to see if there is any "colour" :)
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Post by pomemax » 17 Jul 2019, 12:14 am

I use bronze and nylon and on the odd occasion I have used a turbo (gunsmith,s brush)

I treat brushes like patches if they are worn chuck em out a .30 cal in a 303 good luck with that. never seems to work

Lately I have been buying brushes from the us even with the postage it works out fairly cheap its 14.99 USD. per caliber for a 10 pack of brushes weather they are nylon or bronze and if you get 1 pack postage will kill you but I bought 20 packs of 10 (Different cals ) same postage .
hers the math 14.99 us to ad is 21.32 per brush its $2.13
shipping was $96 Au divided by 200 is .48c works out to $2.61 per brush whats the price you payed for your last brush ? lgs $10 per brush
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Re: Brushes

Post by Sergeant Hartman » 17 Jul 2019, 7:52 am

I paid $3.6 per brush only got 6 though. Someone here posted about BRT who sell dozen brushes for $33 postage is flat $10.... so getting closer top what you paid...
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Post by JimTom » 17 Jul 2019, 3:49 pm

I use nylon now mate, have just changed from brass to try. To be honest a can’t see any difference in the end result.
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