where to buy a cleaning rod online?
 

My AEG never came with one, so I only have the option of borrowing my friends cleaning rod.

I tried searching but I haven't found any stores that sell them. Anyone know of a place that sells them?

Thanks.

Any gun shop can sell you a cleaning rod. 6mm is .243cal (I'm 99%...it's been a while). 6mm might be a bit tight...a .22cal (5.56mm) with a patch will probably be fine.

I didn't know real steel ones would fit?

Anyone know a good gun shop in the Vancouver area? Sorry, I know nothing about real steel so I don't know of any shops (other than Daves).

A .22 cleaning rod works. It's what I use for my guns, since the stock plastic ones break easily.

Ask Dave then...or open the phone book (they're the big paper things that the phone company pass out to each person's door step or to the lobby of apartment buildings...).

Or google "gun shop vancouver"...the internet is great for looking shit up.

A cleaning rod is just a long straight stick. Really...any straight stick (wood, metal, plastic, etc...) will do. But if it's not straight...it will rub and wear your inner barrel. Do not buy a sectioned (i.e. several pieces that screw together to make one long piece) rod. They scratch up your inner barrel. Nice ones are teflon or plastic coated. Real rifle barrels are steel. AEG barrels are aluminum, brass and sometimes stainless steel. Buy a plastic cleaning rod.

Turn off your hopup completely before inserting the rod from the muzzle end.

Don't run it forward hard until it stops...you're just smashing into your nozzle...

reliable guns up on fraser and 12th is a good place to ask for stuff. i personally use a straightened cloth hanger thats coated with rubber...it works wonders lol

I used my universal pistol cleaning kit rod's on my AEGs/GBBs/ect when I was still airsofting.

.22cal rod WILL fit perfectly.

post in the wtb parts and accessories section, lots o ppl have extra ones from the gun's they've collected, id sell you one but being in Toronto it doesn't make sense to

I've got a bunch kicking around, I'll send you one with your magpul receivers.

That would rock Muffin. :)

CanadianTire, $7 kit (buy the .22cal patches separate, 100 for $2). I've only ever used the aluminum/steel sectioned rods, even with my tightbores (almost every gun actually) I've never had a problem with scratching (literally <.22 rod in a >.24cal barrel) at all, so don't worry about having to find only a plastic one.

Great, I'll buy one. All my rifles need a good cleaning.
especially the M24. It has seen a lot of dirty and wet action recently, tanx to our shitty weather.

If Stalker says it's ok, I retract my "plastic coated rod" recommendation...:D

I was going on what we did for real steel and I'd never put a sectioned rod down one of my barrels (or 6mm PPC barrels were freaking expensive and we cleaned after every 15-20 shots). I was erring on the side of caution for the original poster.

With a fair amount of shame...I don't think that I've cleaned the barrels of my own AEG rifles more than once a season...:(

Stalker, is this the one you use?
http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brows....jsp?locale=en

I use the RedHead Universal Cleaning kit from Bass Pro

Add some heat shrink over the connections and you're golden. I do recommend putting a length of heat shrink over the last section though to help prevent the brass rod from contacting the inner barrel. Basically adding guides that centers the rod inside the barrel. You can even set it up so the heat shrink is mostly over one section and just overlaps enough of the next one which would allow you to easily unscrew it and put it back together.