Wiping Down the Lower Receiver of a Ruger Mark 2 Gun

Video Transcript

"Alright, here's the Lower Receiver. Once again, we got it all cleaned up; it's a little greasy on the outside. I noticed a few spots earlier when I put the Break Free on, so I put a little bit of the extra Break Free on some areas, and it's going to just kind of hydrate that metal. It's going to stop some of that, little bit of a dry spot or rough spot. It's basically the oxidation of the metal, and it's, really boils down minus the chemistry, to a dry spot in the metal. So, we're going to take a couple Q-Tips and take a couple of our patches. I just put a little stack here on my mat, so I know what I'm working with, and I've got my little screwdriver here. First, this area is a lot tighter than some of these other pieces that we've been working on. So, I've started off with a Q-Tip here. I'm going to get down in here, right in front of the receiver catch here, and remember this is our machine block here that holds machine fitted to our barrel and our upper receiver. And I just kind of wipe under there, and I wipe down the side of this trigger assembly area here. Inside the plunger here; back here along the hammer. It's looking pretty good. I just kind of get in here with this, and if I notice an area, which I do, I notice an area right in, right on the backside of my trigger here that's kind of dirty. That's when I'm going to take one of my patches and I'm just going to kind of fold it and set it here. And that's when I'm going to take my little flathead screwdriver, that's my trusty screwdriver for cleaning. And I'm just kind of going to wipe the back end of that catch with that screwdriver, and see if I can't get some of that build-up out of there. Alright. once you get all that inside your, inside the Lower Receiver cleaned out what I like to do is I take a couple of these patches and I'll just kind of wipe down the outside of the firearm. I'll get some of that extra Break Free that we were using and kind of wipe it up. And you'll kind of notice when you're using your patches and you're wiping on the outside that there'll be a clear black, not clear black but clear brown, liquid that you may be picking up in your patch and that's just simply the Break Free. The Break Free is a light brown in nature and so, minus the black, if it's just a kind of a clear brown like if you can think of real clean oil that's all that is. And that's, that's not a bad thing picking that up; that's helping hydrate the metal and you don't want some of that extra stuff on there especially if you're going to be going out and shooting again. Alright, I got a good wipe-down here it looks and I kind of judge those wipe downs basically on how clean my patches are coming out and they're coming out pretty clean. I got a little bit of Break Free here, which is a good sign; getting some of that extra stuff off. I'm just going to move on to the barrel and the Upper Receiver."