Cleaning and Maintaining your airsoft gun

[30-06]

Cleaning your airsoft gun is simple and will give you better performance and help you avoid many malfunctions and problems.
The supplies you will need are inexpensive and easy to find.

1. Silicone oil airsoft gun lube
2. Cleaning/unjamming rod that comes with your airsoft gun
3. gun cleaning patches

The simplest procedure for cleaning an airsoft gun is to first go over the outside with a damp cloth or sponge and clean away any dirt. Make sure to get in all the cracks and small places and around the sights. Next thread one of the cleaning patches through the end of the cleaning rod with an eye in it. Push it down the barrel in a spiralling motion untill you feel it stop. Clean the barrel by repeating this process untill no more dirt appears on the cleaning patch. Next, do the same with the feeding port in the magazine well.
Once you have cleaned the gun, lubricate it by spraying some silicone lube down the barrel and or into the chamber through the feeding port.

[Brazzy]

If you push it down until it stops, the you might screw up your hop up. Thats why when you get the cleaning rod from TM or CA, it has a red line on it so you know when to stop and you dont puch the jamming rod through the hop up system.

[30-06]

i wasnt suggesting people push the cleaning rod down on the hopup, i merely meant tp push the cleaning rod down the barrel carefully untill they felt the cleaning rod touch the hopup.

[Brazzy]

Im just clarifying your statement because someone with little experience will easily push it through the unit if they push it until it stops, cuz a lightly tuned hop up unit wont stop it. LOL

[Peach]

You can also adjust the hopup so that it does not get into the way, which is what i do, but it requires readjustment after each cleaning, which isnt a big deal

[renegaderecon]

where can i buy silicone lube and cleaning patches? (offline) at stores

[matchgrade]

you can get silicon oil at lowes or home depot in the electrical section. it'll say electrical grade silicon lubricant, and thats good enough for airsoft.

cleaning patches you can get from sporting good stores with hunting sections

[renegaderecon]

thanks matchgrade i appreciate it ;)

[Reaper]

Thanks for this. I've been needing to know the items needed to clean my M4.

[godfatha]

I just put the silicon oil right on the patches.


You can also adjust the hopup so that it does not get into the way, which is what i do, but it requires readjustment after each cleaning, which isnt a big deal



How do you readjust the the hop-up?

[fearmytwin]

maintenance guide from renegade recon : all you need to know.

http://www.renegaderecon.com/beginnersguide_details.php?id=11

[Junior]

Adjusting your hop-up is easy, I'm assuming you're meaning that after you cleaned the gun you just need to set the hop-up back the way you had it that's just twisting the nob or moving the lever depending on your gun... Also you guys didn't mention this... NO WHITE LITHIUM OR CLP IN THE GUNS! In the shop we run down here in Virginia we get so many kids that think, "Well geez I need to lube my gun why don't I use dad's real-steel stuff?" NO! DON'T DO IT! Have you ever seen the internals of a gearbox melt? :'(

[matchgrade]

this thread was last posted in in october....

[chrome]

what if you dont know how to take your barrel out of the gun and put it back together correctly? :)

[tyler {332nd} ham]

For the cleaning patches, I just take a ratty old white T-shirt, and cut it up into little pieces and use those. Works fine.

[Desert Fox]

The instructions for my gun say that after i shoot i should take out the mag and fire blanks on semi. I was just wondering, does it really do anything? I'm kinda thinking that it keeps the gears working properly, but i'm not really sure.

[Kiena]

it decompresses the spring so that it will last longer nothing that has to do with the gears, also this thread is kinda old

[FriendlyFire]

yes but this is a sticky so it doesn't really matter...and yes kiena is right

[SolidSnake]

not to mention it clears the barrel

[Desert Fox]

Yeah, thanks guys. I dry fired my gun in my house yesterday to see how much battery i had left, so i took out the clip and pulled the trigger. Turned out there was a bb in the chamber, so it bounced off the walls of the room and almost hit me :eek:. So yeah, after that i realized another use for it :D. Thanks for answering

[minime]

thnx for clearing up on how to clean my gun. BIG HELP

[Tamarin Fisher]

I was told to never oil up a gun. One of the biggest causes of gun damage is the atempted maintenance and cleaning of a gun. I was instructed to put bbs and a fully charged battery in and shoot away. that's it.

[shorty]

well thats stupid, ur guns gonna jam cuz barrels do get rather dirty, and internally you gotta clean it also

[Intake]

I was told to never oil up a gun. One of the biggest causes of gun damage is the atempted maintenance and cleaning of a gun. I was instructed to put bbs and a fully charged battery in and shoot away. that's it.

you never want to use an petroleum based solvent, like WD-40. ONLY use SILICON oil if you use somehting like WD-40, it is know to eat away at plastic, and if it gets on the hop-up it eats away at the hop-up bucking. but you eventually have to lube the barrel, just make sure u use the right stuff.

[Tamarin Fisher]

I didn't mean don't ever clean the dirt out of your gun or wipe it down, I was just saying that I was told most guns don't need to be oiled. Don't kill the messenger!

[SACSlym]

Its generally easier to tell someone who doesn't know what theyre doing not to do anything at all rather than taking the chance they'll inflict damage on their gun. Oil is fine in the barrel area, I'm not quite sure why anyone would think spraying WD-40 into a gearbox is a good idea, but I've known some pretty stupid people... speaking of which, fire is not a valid solution to a barrel jam.

[Tamarin Fisher]

Youre right Slym, I am new to airsoft. I'm just trying to avoid confusion which in turn may damage my equipment. I do have a bottle of silicone oil. I just held off from using it when I was told not to. But it seems you guys haven't had any problems. Thanks for all the input. peeeace.

[Patsiman]

Thanks for this thread def. a big helper

[Kiko]

Food Grade Silicon FTW!

[v Covert v]

Thanks Big help!

[2secondDelay]

I'm new and have had problembs with my gun(in the shop twice). Is it me or is the the production of airsoft guns so new that they have not been engineered wellL You can by a real gun for the same money and you can bet it is safe and works.
And- the airsoft guns are so delicate that the can seriously messed up by an amature just trying to clean it or even trying to use it.
Airsoft is fun though.!

[zack254]

on the first page there's talk about a hop up and i have seen that a lot and i was wondering what is and what does it do?

[shorty]

necropost

[HealeyIRA5]

I'm new and have had problembs with my gun(in the shop twice). Is it me or is the the production of airsoft guns so new that they have not been engineered wellL You can by a real gun for the same money and you can bet it is safe and works.
And- the airsoft guns are so delicate that the can seriously messed up by an amature just trying to clean it or even trying to use it.
Airsoft is fun though.!

ya I agree, you can get a real gun for the same as some of these airsoft guns and you can hurl it off a tree, but if an airsoft gun slips your grip and falls 3 feet to the ground it could have problems

[Hemp Ninja]

I have heard that sometimes silicon oil should be applied to magazines, specifically when they are new. Is this a rumor or is there a method to how to do it? I am not talking about oiling the seal on GBB mags , but just putting oil on/in an AEG mag.

[Buddha]

Skip the silicon oil and put a puff of graphite powder in there.

[BigHeadedBEAST]

hey im new to airsoft just got a gun that shoot .2g bbs um i was just wondering if that means i need to buy bbs that say .2g bbs on the bottle or can they say 0.20g bbs pleazz let me kno asap oh yeah and are the bbs from walmart any good or can those ruin ur airsoft gun

[FriendlyFire]

hey im new to airsoft just got a gun that shoot .2g bbs um i was just wondering if that means i need to buy bbs that say .2g bbs on the bottle or can they say 0.20g bbs pleazz let me kno asap oh yeah and are the bbs from walmart any good or can those ruin ur airsoft gun


your gun not only shoots .2 gram bbs, they use ALL 6mm bbs, such as .12, .20, .25, .28, .223246898647567632498 etc.

i dont want to flame you too bad, but how old are you? it is BASIC math to know that .2 is the same as .20 or even .20000000000000000000000000000

i will get some controversy from this but STAY AWAY FROM WALMART AIRSOFT ANYTHING! bounds are it sucks!

try going on websites such as evike.com or airsoftgi.com
there is an airsoft store in western mass, Federal Airsoft. search it on google. Craig is a great guy and will teach you EVERYTHING you need to know.

<3
-Derek

[t0ma70]

to answer the question yes you can use the crossman bbs at wallmart

there not too good tho theyll tide you for now but if i were you id get some airsoft elites from evike or craig at federal airsoft or plauge sells bbs as well

[mike.m]

if you go cheap your gonna get cheap and it may bite you in the ass.

[preston marlow]

hey im new to airsoft just got a gun that shoot .2g bbs um i was just wondering if that means i need to buy bbs that say .2g bbs on the bottle or can they say 0.20g bbs pleazz let me kno asap oh yeah and are the bbs from walmart any good or can those ruin ur airsoft gun


go to evike.com and get some matrix 6mm bb's

[kyle357]

where can you get silicon lube?

[dogshep]

where can you get silicon lube?

Almost any airsoft website will get you some lube. Or you can check Federal Airsoft.

http://www.airsoftgi.com/index.php?cPath=31_253

If you're looking online.

[jmb91]

where can you get silicon lube?

The lube you're getting online is just silicon spray. Any sort of hardware store will also sell it, probably cheaper and you won't have to ship.

[mike.m]

i would definitely buy the airsoft inovations silicon lube from evike. it's not a spray and works wonders.

[Gunny]

I have put at least 25000 rounds through my ICS MP5 of crossman bbs (from k-mart), and have never had a problem, but they are right. Cheap bb's like these could bite u in the butt. I am just saying that i, nor any of my friends (at least 60,000 rounds through other various guns) have never had problems with them.

[APW]

I've run through at least 70k crosmans with an old echo I once had. Once you get something like a KWA with a 6.05 barrel your crosmans will jam like every other shot. AE/Matrix is the way to go with higher end guns.

[Shrapnull]

TSD's aren't half-bad either. 10,000+ rounds in my tightbore KWA M4 (6.03 Black Python) and no jams, ever.

[bob24]

What do you guys think about AIM TOP bb's?

[Gunny]

well most of my crossmans went through my madbull 6.03 tightbore, just saying. but ya, go with higher end bbs anyways. they are like 2 extra bucks and u get peice of mind.

[mike.m]

i use to use the cheap walmart bbs all the time, once i upgraded my weapon they jammed like crazy. But like he just said atleast with the better quality rounds you get a better piece of mind. you'd rather have them and not need them, than need them and not have them

[jmb91]

What do you guys think about AIM TOP bb's?

I'd listen to the other suggestions in this thread. Stick with AE's, Matrix, G&G, etc. Stay away from the stuff you get in Wallmart, Kmart, Dicks, etc. most of those are shit bb's and will destroy any decent gun.

[Forsaken]

Is there any way to know when to stop putting the cleaning rod in? Because when I did it, I messed up my hop up and am worried about doing it again. Maybe comparing barrel length vs. rod length then marking?

[bob24]

I'd listen to the other suggestions in this thread. Stick with AE's, Matrix, G&G, etc. Stay away from the stuff you get in Wallmart, Kmart, Dicks, etc. most of those are shit bb's and will destroy any decent gun.

These aren't walmart bb's or anything. I was looking on Evike and I saw a 5k pack of AIM TOP for $10 so I thought it was a good deal but haven't purchased yet.

[Chef]

yah some of those arent even solid

[Tank]

TSD makes a great round.

[Druid]

What about Matrix are they any good or are they just a rebrand?

-Druid

[jmb91]

matrix is fine. It's basically AE