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Choke tube cleaner

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#1 ·
I had been cleaning my choke tubes with a copper brush on a cordless drill and sometimes it would do the trick but other times not so much and patience and liquid cleaners was needed.

I love to tinker and have a bit of tools to do so on. So I turned myself a handle and also cnc cut a piece of brass to make a scraper. Its a pretty simple design that works really well and I’ve been using and testing one for a couple months now.

So I made a few more I’ve giving them away to some shooting buddies to test and make sure they do what I think they should. Will be giving some to some friends for Christmas as well.

Most of the handles are American walnut. With some pecan from a piece of firewood I saved.

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#2 ·
Interesting pieces and great wood work! I just scrubbed out two chokes for my 28ga that for some reason gets wad fowling when using certain wads in my reloads. Got to the point I soaked them in acetone for a bit before hitting them with a bore brush chucked in a drill bit. Thinking of treating them with Eezox to see what happens.
 
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#8 · (Edited)
I chuck up a bronze bore brush (mounted on a 4" extension) in my drill press which is then set to it's highest speed. Flood the choke tube with Ed's Red and let 'er rip.
The tube gets really hot in about 8 seconds, so I made a wooden holder.
Takes about 20 seconds to completely clean the ID of the tube. (I think the heat helps soften the plastic buildup.)
 
#10 ·
I bought one of these from MTBKN. It is very effective. It feels good in the hand and the edge carves carbon build up right out of a choke tubes. The design allows you to get good leverage. It kind feels like coring an apple. It fits in my shooting bag a cleans the inside of a tube in a few seconds with no large tools or chemicals. If I am in my garage I use this tool and then touch it up with a 18Volt drill with a wire brush. Cleans em up good.
 
#11 ·
I have one of the choke scraper tools. Like it. I use it to get heavily plastic-coated chokes scraped before a final bronze brush cleaning. For the brush, I use it attached to a short cleaning rod on a variable speed drill. Works quickly and does a great job. Bore snakes don't clean chokes. Brass brushes, some solvent and a drill, make the chokes shine like new.
 
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My choke tubes typically get a plastic build-up on them from the wads which takes some amount of elbow grease to remove. That stuff just doesn't seem to build-up in the barrels. After cleaning the barrels I'll remove the choke tubes for a more thorough scrubbing with brushes and solvent until the plastic fouling is all gone. While I'm at it I'll clean the threads, reapply grease to them and seat them tightly back in the barrel.