... I had a brainfart and left my bag of M1 clips and ammo at my range last week on my bench, well it rained over the weekend here while I was out of town and my enblocs got all corroded and rusty. So after several attempts to scrub the rust and corrosion off I devised a way to clean them up and came up with this..
Place them into a rotary tumbler like a thumbler with stainless steel media, water and a dash of lemishine, Sound familiar? Same way you wet tumble clean brass cases..
I ran them for a little over 2 hours and took them out, rinsed them clean and dried them in the hot sun. Then applied a coat of Sea Foam Deep Creep to prevent rust and corrosion. The result is perfectly smooth clips with deburred edges. These things now feed and eject from my M1s very smoothly. And best of all they no longer scratch and scuff the ammo.
Its a great way to even out the rough Parkerizing on aftermarket or off brand Enblocs. and the stainless steel pins do very well to smooth down the sharp edges.
Yall give it a try if you have access to a rotary wet tumbler.
I wish I had taken before pics..
Place them into a rotary tumbler like a thumbler with stainless steel media, water and a dash of lemishine, Sound familiar? Same way you wet tumble clean brass cases..
I ran them for a little over 2 hours and took them out, rinsed them clean and dried them in the hot sun. Then applied a coat of Sea Foam Deep Creep to prevent rust and corrosion. The result is perfectly smooth clips with deburred edges. These things now feed and eject from my M1s very smoothly. And best of all they no longer scratch and scuff the ammo.
Its a great way to even out the rough Parkerizing on aftermarket or off brand Enblocs. and the stainless steel pins do very well to smooth down the sharp edges.
Yall give it a try if you have access to a rotary wet tumbler.
I wish I had taken before pics..