Cleaning the Springfield XD 9mm Handgun Slide with Break Free

Video Transcript

"Okay so here we are with the slide. We have our barrel taken out, we have our guide rod taken out, and so what we're left with here is the slide and the bolt assembly. Now we're not going to take apart the bolt assembly because we're going to take this firearm out pretty soon and have a little bit of fun with it. So we're just doing a basic field strip clean out. So what I'm going to take my break free back out here. I'm going to shake it up. I like to start right here on the inside of the slide here. I'm just going to give it one good squirt and I'm just going to kind of wipe that break free around with my fingers. The reason I like to use my fingers, as I do with every other part, is it lets me know where exactly I've got the break free. You know, not just by eyesight looking around the slide, but physically by touch I can tell by the oil that gets on my fingers and when I hit a dry spot you can feel the friction change. Then so I just do that kind of out of piece of mind. Then on so I'm going to do the same thing I'm going to spray one squirt at the front of the inside, the frame, and I'm going to do the same thing here with one on the left side, and one on the right side. I'm just going to massage the break free in. You can just kind of pick it up in both of your hands. I'm going to touch it on the back. I'm going to get it around the sides real good. Around the front of the barrel seat, the slide. Alright and now that I've gotten that all sprayed and sitting I'm going to do another glance over. Make sure I've got it. I kind of touched everywhere and I'm not feeling any dry spots. Just going to make sure everything is looking good, and it is so I'm going to set this slide off to the side now and the next thing we're going to do is we're going to get our lower receiver and we're going to do the same thing. We're going to put our break free in the receiver."