| Hey if you're like me you love to take your handguns | | | | it's actually really simple: |
| out and spend Saturday afternoon either at the | | | | All ultrasonics really do is make a powerful |
| range or out in the boonies plinking away at targets | | | | high-frequency noise inside of the tank full of water. |
| or varmints. The downside is that if you're going to | | | | This produces cavitation, which I'm not sure I fully |
| keep your guns in tip top shape, they have to be | | | | understand -- but I do know that this cavitation thing |
| claimed the next day. | | | | scrubs anything that you put inside the ultrasonic |
| You can't just leave all that carbon, lubricating oil, dust | | | | tank. The other thing that's really neat is that it gets |
| and dirt sitting there. Over time it will attract moisture | | | | into places that you and I could never reach with a |
| and you will begin to see deterioration in the condition | | | | brush, or even a single piece of wire. It really leaves |
| of your weapons. Okay fine -- so what we all do is | | | | no stone unturned and removes every single bit of |
| spend three or four hours during the next week | | | | old gun oil, carbon residue and anything else that may |
| breaking down our weapons. Then we clean them. | | | | be coming up the works for you. |
| Then we lubricate them. Finally, we reassemble them | | | | But these gun cleaning systems do more to: after |
| and store them safely, ready for our next outing. | | | | you clean your guns in them, you rinsed them off |
| All of our friends are doing the same thing. The | | | | and then put them into another pan to lubricate. You |
| amount of time we all spend as a group doing this is | | | | just pour weapons lubricate solution into the pan, |
| immense. But what if there was a way to get out of | | | | lower the pan into the ultrasonic cleaner and hit the |
| it? | | | | button. In the same way that the cavitation uses the |
| Well there is -- and it's the way that the guys who | | | | cleaning solution to scrub away any dirt, it uses the |
| run National Guard Armory's professional shooting | | | | lubricating solution to remove any lingering traces of |
| ranges have used for years. They use ultrasonic | | | | moisture that are left over from the cleaning and |
| handgun cleaners and spend their afternoon drinking | | | | rinsing. |
| Cokes and eaten chips while a machine does her gun | | | | In the end, what you end up with is a perfectly |
| cleaning for them. | | | | cleaned and thoroughly lubricated handgun. And you |
| Ultrasonic gun cleaners have been around for | | | | get this without having to sit at a badge get your |
| decades, but they're only now becoming inexpensive | | | | hands dirty when you'd really rather be watching the |
| enough for small gun clubs and individuals to own | | | | game. |
| them. The term alter sonic sounds pretty exotic, but | | | | |