Ok Finally got round to looking at my gun and took the action off the stock. The mechanism is a little dirty but not too bad but I am going to give it a clean anyway. I was given advice to clean with brake cleaner ... but I do not have any Doh! I do however have some carb cleaner will this do the job ? Simple solvent mix as far as I can see with no residue. Any advice welcomed.
Browning action cleaning
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Iggy
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I've never done anything like this before so can't give first hand advice. However I have read that brake cleaner is pretty serious stuff so from the perspective of your own health carb cleaner may be preferable. One thing I would say is if you do use carb cleaner or WD40 etc make sure you use some light oil afterwards.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Thanks Iggy you are right of course these cleaners contain some nasty solvents. I got the advice to use brake cleaner from a very knowledgeable person on here so no doubt its good to use and I have seen references where other have used it... I don't have any but I do have carb cleaner which I think will do something similar but make sure the area is well vented. I don't think WD40 is recommended though. I will give a very light oiling on moving parts as advised. Saw a video where the person cleaning the action put oil on the removed most with an compressed air line so get the impression that oiling is very sparingly
Got some of that Ian! The action looks quite clean but there is a little grim so will clean it anyway. I don't think it takes much dirt to cause a trigger problem ? If cleaning does not cure it I will take it to the gun shop and ask them to investigate.
Well I cleaned and reoiled the action but I must say I am a little disappointed with the quality of the engineering in the action ! I know at about £2.5k it is not an expensive gun but not cheap either I would say that Beretta's of similar price are much better.
To be fair only the bearing surfaces need to be well polished, the outsides of the works can have a very crude look to them.
That is true Hammy but I think it is more attention to detail. Look inside any of the 68x model and you will see nicely machined parts look inside the Browning and... well the parts look very rough indeed. I have a couple of photos but unfortunately for some reason I cannot upload them. Photos before cleaning.
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Andy S
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Looks almost the same component wise Andy! No engraving on my gun though nice that. I did notice that when I removed the stock that it was not very tight must have eased off after the 3k carts I have put through it. Out on Wednesday for a few rounds of UT so I hope that my clean up will have shifted what ever was causing the dodgy trigger pull. To be honest it was not that dirty but I do not think it takes much to make the trigger a bit sticky. Going to be very cold down here on Wednesday max temp 6C I have never shot trap in cold weather before could be interesting 
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Andy S
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Its a 525 Premium Gold sporter with grade 2.5 wood. I had the adjustable comb done.
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Jonny English
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Just reading through this post and was wondering about ultrasonic cleaning and whether that would be suitable for cleaning action/individual parts? I know it's used On golf club heads and for cleaning watch parts, so would it be suitable? That is of course if you have access to one!
I could have had one when I left the science game but forgot to hmm. borrow it... Doh! I have used it for cleaning the jet from my bikes carbs and general cleaning but that was aqueous stuff I don't know about using one with solvents. You can put the thing to be cleaned in a glass container and clean it that way so if you had a big enough bath and a suitable jar it would be OK... probably
