How do you store your
gun cleaning brushes? We've always fought with this. There is several different sizes, they are all mixed together. The marking on the brush is very hard to see if at all.
I think my wife came up with a great solution today, that we want to give a try. Local hobby store sells clear plastic tubes with lids as coin tubes. They are like $2.99 for a 5 pack. Can label or mark the tube with size. Keep them neat and organized.
What do you think? What do you do?
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Bore snakes and brushes are in individual small plastic boxes with the caliber written on the top. I got tired of guessing!
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Empty plastic prescription bottles may fill your need.
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For the longest time, I had everything jumbled in a plastic shoe box. Infuriating to try to find the right sizes, or even which rods fit together right. Finally got sick of it and ordered a big complete kit from Amazon. Now everything has is place in the case it came with, and is clearly marked. Well worth $30.
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Hmm, that would be a good option.
Right now we have wood box cleaning kit with a top lid and lift out tray. also has a pull out drawer in the bottom. Really like it and it has all our stuff in it. Only issue is the brushes not organized.
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20 years ago I bought a Dewalt reciprocating saw that came with a Dewalt plastic blade case. The case has a hinged top on one end and also telescopes for different length blades. Ideal for me.
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I have at least three of the multi drawer tackle boxes Plano ? I think they all are I picked up the secondary markets easy to use a separate compartment in each drawer for different calibers and also cleaning jags , patches even a few tools the break down cleaning rods fit in the top with a lot of cleaning supply's room OK granted the one piece rods not so much 😁
also have a craftsman tool box ( from a local auction with I think 3 or 4 drawers set up just with cleaning supply's and tools for the AR rifles I got bit hard a few years ago on putting together the AR rilfles and pistols
before all that just in a tackle box all one big mess of cleaning brushes stuck together in a huge mess
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Small plastic fishing lure case. Has about 10 little compartments.
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I keep all my gun cleaning stuff in a big Craftsman plastic tool box with a lift out tray. It is pretty much a mess and I need to do something different. Maybe this post will energize me to do that.
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They come in plastic tubes when you buy them, nicely labeled. Problem averted.
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I guess it’s one of the few things in life I never got around to organizing.
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I just buy Glocks so I never have to clean them.
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they may be on the kitchen counter, or in the end table drawer, possibly in one of several cleaning kits in the garage or shed... wherever they are, I won't find the one I wanted until a day or so after the new one arrives...
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Mine are somewhere out in the barn, I think. 😲
Joe
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Just a regular plastic 20 round ammunition box. Jags on one side, brushes right beside. 22 at one end up to 45 at the other. I'm gradually replacing my bronze brushes with nylon. Bronze, for me, just isn't necessary.
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Tipton gun cleaning jag set and a Tipton bore brush set. They all have their marked place in the plastic case they came in and it is mounted to the front of my cleaning bench. I also have a piece of wood, small 1x4, that is walnut stained and has holes drilled in it for each brush and below each hole the caliber/gauge is burnt into the wood. Looks nice and it also sets on my cleaning bench.
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William81: 29981628466331/comments/29981628646043
Bore snakes and brushes are in individual small plastic boxes with the caliber written on the top. I got tired of guessing!
Me too
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Rocky Raab: 29981628466331/comments/29981643456539
They come in plastic tubes when you buy them, nicely labeled. Problem averted.
Not all come in plastic tubes and not all retailers sell that brand. Around here you get the brush on a cardboard back with clear plastic bubble over the top. Neither the cardboard or plastic last beyond an hour after opening.
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You've basically got nothing, in the Pistol drawer @toad67.
You don't clean those puppies? 🤔
Another Glock Owner. 👍😁
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@...: 29981628466331/comments/29981659174427
You've basically got nothing, in the Pistol drawer @toad67.
You don't clean those puppies? 🤔
Another Glock Owner. 👍😁
I have another one for pistolas.....
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I use a very large tackle box with individual trays . Been doing that for years
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mrs102: 29981628466331/comments/29981667806235
Empty plastic prescription bottles may fill your need.
I've been using the orange bottles, of different sizes, for over 30 years.
Jags in one......brushes (rifle & pistol) in others.......and patches in more bottles.
VERY handy.......and very helpful, under high wind conditions in the pd fields.
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gun cleaning brushes? We've always fought with this. There is several different sizes, they are all mixed together. The marking on the brush is very hard to see if at all.
I think my wife came up with a great solution today, that we want to give a try. Local hobby store sells clear plastic tubes with lids as coin tubes. They are like $2.99 for a 5 pack. Can label or mark the tube with size. Keep them neat and organized.
What do you think? What do you do?
I want to see it when you get it all together. Sounds like a great way to do it.
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William81: 29981628466331/comments/29981628646043
Bore snakes and brushes are in individual small plastic boxes with the caliber written on the top. I got tired of guessing!
I like that setup
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Well I keep my small gun cleaning kit in a Walkers Shortbread can.... Shortbread cans are good piggy banks also 😏
I can buy a gun with a shortbread can worth of change....
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Well done Rae, well done.
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I just cut one of the ends on the brush package (the ones with a cardboard card) so I can put the brush back in the original packaging. Later I got some mill bit holders but they kind a take up more space than the card thing I do.
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