| You might spend half a day on Sunday just cleaning | | | | over lubricating oil to collect grit or moisture in the |
| up our pistols after a fun Saturday at the firing range. | | | | future. |
| There's nothing wrong with doing it that way. There's | | | | Once they've used their ultrasonic weapons cleaner |
| actually something kind of meditative and Zen about | | | | to get off the old oil and carbon residue, the |
| carefully breaking down, cleaning, lubricating and | | | | weapons are rinsed. Then they are put into a |
| reassembling a handgun. | | | | lubricating pan which is also placed inside the ultrasonic |
| But people with less time and more weapons on their | | | | cleaner. The reason they do this is to make sure that |
| hands don't normally do it that way. What they do is | | | | the weapons lubricating fluid penetrates every area |
| use an ultrasonic cleaner. Ultrasonic cleaners used | | | | of the hand gun. This is kind of like insurance against |
| powerful sound waves to create and then collapsed | | | | any possibility of oxidation on the exposed metal |
| vacuum bubbles in water. Why does this matter you | | | | surfaces. |
| ask? | | | | After the guns spend time in their warm and |
| Well, it matters because when those vacuum bubbles | | | | comfortable lubricating bath, excess oil is wiped off |
| collapse this is a process known as cavitation. | | | | with a lint free rag, and they are reassembled. |
| Cavitation in water releases kinetic energy. That | | | | In the end, they have a weapon that has been much |
| kinetic energy bumps up against anything inside the | | | | more thoroughly cleaned and lubricated they knew |
| tank. Now if the object in the tank is something hard | | | | where I could ever do by hand, and they get away |
| like say, a handgun, the energy actually produces | | | | with doing gnome manual cleaning. |
| powerful micro-currents in the water that scrub the | | | | I'm actually thinking of buying one of these systems |
| surface of the handgun. | | | | for myself, and picturing a new kind of weekend |
| Another huge plus is that these micro-currents are | | | | where I spent Saturday at the range or how my |
| microscopic, so they clean out even the tiniest | | | | friend's ranch, and Sunday reading the paper instead |
| niches, holes and crevices in your weapon. No old left | | | | of wringing out the barrels on a bunch of handguns. |