Learn About the Maintenance for a .40 Caliber Semi Automatic Handgun

Learn About the Maintenance for a .40 Caliber Semi Automatic Handgun
Now I take this remove it down to the 6 o'clock position again. Release this slide. Okay. Inside of my slide I have the guide rod and the spring. When I will clean this weapon this is under tension so you want it pointed away from anyone just like a firearm. Point this down because if it happens to get away from me it will go straight to the ground instead of hitting someone. This here is what makes the slide go back and forth. This has enough tension that when it cycles it goes back and forth. This is the barrel of the firearm. That's the total top rear slide portion or receiver of how that weapons broken down. These are the parts you want to care for when you are cleaning. A regular toothbrush and some cleaning solvent you get in there and get all of the crevasses and all of the lead deposits if you fired recently any of the dust. You just want to scrub down real good. Dry it down. Maybe get a small cleaning cloth with a little bit of oil and just give it a light coat of oil and then you reassemble the parts. Again you want to run a patch or a bore snake through your barrel. This is where the round comes through. It is feed up this little ramp into there and it comes out this end. You want to clean that out or just run a bore through it every once and a while to make sure there is no build up of any type of deposits or gunk. Something that would destruct around from leaving because that could cause a serious problem as far as the barrel exploding. Putting it back together. Hold this down. Place that right in there slide it back on. Hold it with your thumb to make sure it doesn't go flying. Okay, for this purpose we are going to set this right here. The bottom part you want to look at your feed ramp here and your take down level. A little bit of cleaning solvent and a toothbrush and you just kind of scrub that down. You want to hit in here. You want to drop oil on anything that is metal. Especially where you see it is shiny and silver. That means it's metal on metal which creates friction. Put a drop of oil there on any springs there and a light coat. At that point your weapon is clean. Now you can reassemble it. Slide it to the rear 3 o'clock position. Hold it, push it forward. This weapon has the function test performed. That weapon is now operable.