How do I clean the gas block?

[CSKS]

How do you guys clean the area between the barrel gas cut and the gas port (that the gas tube of the upper handguard connects to)? Pipe-cleaner? I've heard of a gas port cleaning tool but I've never seen one and so any info on what it can do will be appreciated. So far I've been using a Q-tip moistened with CLP to clean the gas port but I'm sure it's not reaching deep enough.

[Heavy Metal]

Use shooters choice and pipe cleaners and q tips. Let it soak overnight in shooter choice and dry. Repeat for 2 more nights when shooting corrosive. Shooters choice is good on corrosive ammo and CLP won't touch those hard carbon deposits. You can make a gas port scraper out of the proper sized allen wrench (hex wrench). Works as well as factory solution and wont damage your weapon.

[SgtStryker36]

I just use a plastic patch holder that is
used on cleaning rods but without rod and cut
the cleaning patch a little oversize to snugly fit in the gas block and soak the patch with some good bore cleaner solvent
and just keep twisting it around a few times
and this usually cleans it all out, then get
a pipe cleaner and run that through the gas
hole several times ,then use a clean patch
and wipe out excess solvent and wipe dry,
then I finish it by applying a light coat of
Breakfree or any gun oil for protection.

[CSKS]

Thanks for the ideas. A follow-on question - if CLP is not strong enough to clean tough deposits, then using gun scrubber followed by the CLP should yield the same result as Shooters Choice, correct? With all the carbon deposits that the Chicom ammo is producing (it's all over the firing pin block; interior of the receiver etc after about 50 rounds), I'm actually leaning towards regularly using gun scrubber/solvent/oil vs just solvent/oil to do the cleaning after every trip to the range. There shouldn't be any harm done using gun scrubber regularly provided I oil any parts cleaned with it afterwards, correct?

[Heavy Metal]

Gun Scrubber is fine for blasting out gunk, but won't do squat against baked on deposits. Try it on your piston head and see what it does with no scrubbing. Then try letting it sit overnight in shooters choice. The deposits in your gas block are like those on the piston head. Shooter choice also dissolves the corrosive salts in primer residue from corrosive ammo. It is very aggresive on carbon deposits. Try it and you will like it. Just dont slop it onto the wood orplastic and you will be fine.

[SgtStryker36]

GunScrubber is kind of harsh and if you get
any on your stocks it will eat up the finish.
I would use a bore solvent for general use:
Hoppes or GI bore cleaner are good. If you
clean your rifle regularly after each trip
or day at the range ,you wont have too much
deposits. I wouldnt use Gun Scrubber for an
AK since it field strips so easily and cleans
easily already unless it's really fouled. I
used some Gun Scruber on my shotgun one time
and it messed up my guns parkerizing, it's
strong stuff.

[CSKS]

Excuse my ignorance but isn't baked-on deposits a type of gunk or is that term only used for accumulated dirt (attracted by oil) or grease only?
Thanks for the info guys, it's really appreciated.

[LAgunman2K-3]

just shoot it out , you think those 3rd world coutries shooting AKs even clean there guns? much less the gas port

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