Gun Maintenance

Im just wondering what I should be doing regularly to keep my gun functioning to its tippy top, all the dos and donts! After pole vaulting a few times yesterday, im a bit concerned about any dirt and what not in the gun, and anything else I should check on regularly.

Id also like to know a bit on whats hard on the gun too. Dont want to form any bad habits this early.

I know theres lots of resources online, but I dont know what to trust, so If i can get some good links, and tips from experience that would be great.

Use silicone oil. Don't use WD40 on your gun. WD40 will eat away at your rubber seals. For cleaning the dirt out of your barrel, remove your barrel and hopup from your gun, turn off the hopup, take a little bit of paper towel and put it in your cleaning rod and give it a spritz of silicone spray, slowly drag it down the barrel. Once that's done, observe the barrel and check for any debris. Then do the same thing again but leave the paper towel dry. Continue to do this until the barrel is clean

Use silicone oil. Don't use WD40 on your gun. WD40 will eat away at your rubber seals. For cleaning the dirt out of your barrel, remove your barrel and hopup from your gun, turn off the hopup, take a little bit of paper towel and put it in your cleaning rod and give it a spritz of silicone spray, slowly drag it down the barrel. Once that's done, observe the barrel and check for any debris. Then do the same thing again but leave the paper towel dry. Continue to do this until the barrel is clean

Meatshower you are totally correct but, don't use paper towel it leaves little pieces of paper in the barrel and can fall apart with too much silicone on it. The best is to use actual cotton patches for cleaning real steel fire arms. They can be easily purchased at any gun store or Canadian tire and work really well for airsoft just make sure you buy the small patches so you can still be able to push them in the barrel.

Less silicone is better then drowning the barrel with it

I agree with all the above sentiments.

My general rule of thumb, if it aint broke, don't fix it. unless something breaks internally or my FPS drops due to bad compression that's when ill go ahead and open up my gearbox. If not, she stays closed.

Generally after every game day ill clean the externals of my AEG, clean it of mud, debris, leaves ect ect. If its pouring rain ill dry it off with a towel and leave it in my airsoft room with the heat on so everything dries up.

once every 2 game days ill put a patch down the pipe and give it a good cleaning. but I don't do as deep to touch the bucking.

once every couple month or roughly 4000-5000 rounds ill take the barrel out of the hop up unit, clean the bucking with warm water and dish soap and give the inner barrel a good cleaning from breach to muzzle. I might even go ahead and polish the inner barrel with some car polish, a drill and a cleaning rod.

other than that, I keep my optics, clean by cleaning the lens with a Trijicon lenz pen and seal the bucking with Teflon tape before reinstalling it my hop up unit.

I always check my LiPo batteries to see what % of battery life they have left after a game. if they are in the area of 50-60% I will leave them until the next time I need to use them and then ill give them a full charge. if they are below 35% (usually never happens) ill put them on a storage charge which will bring them back up to approx. 60%, and again ill leave them there until I need to use them and charge them again.