Wiping Down the Main Spring Housing of a Ruger Mark 2 Gun

Video Transcript

"Alright, here's our parts here, we've had them scrubbed down, got the brake free setting in real good. What we're going to do now is that's what we're going to use these patches the q-tips and this screwdriver for. And I just like to work from my first step in. So I'm going to take my main spring housing. I'm going to grab a couple of these patches here and remember we got these things scrubbed down. And I'm just going to give a good wipe and see where some of this dirt and grime, this buildup is going to be coming from. Because if I can find a particular area on the main spring housing where maybe I have an extra buildup, I know that I can get in there and I can spend a little bit more time cleaning that. I can oh, say I got a little bit more grime up here at the bolt pin stop, which I typically do, knowing that I clean this firearm, that's when I get one of my q-tips out here and I just get in here and I kind of hold this bolt pin stop against the main spring housing and I get in here right next to these push pins and I wipe these real good in here. What this does it may not necessarily totally help the overall action of the firearm, but it gives me a piece of mind and it lets your firearm know that you're taking real good care of it. You can see we got a little bit of black stuff here, done a pretty good job of cleaning this up. Take a little bit more with this q-tip here. Alright, now I'm going to take that patch again and I mean as many patches and as many q-tips you want to use. This is no limit, this is I mean whatever you need to do to get this done you need to use to get these done. And now also, as we're wiping this down, what we're wanting to do is wipe some of this extra break free off this main spring housing because the oily things are, especially if you're not going to have the firearm put up for a long time, all this extra oil's going to help it get dirtier quicker, its going to gunk up and then you just kind of pose an overall problem maybe with some of your operations. So, you got this wiped down, its not feeling real greasy, you can feel a little bit of it, but that's good for the overall health of the metal. So, I think we're good here. Next thing, we're going to wipe down our bolt face and our bolt."