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Best place to take a browning A5 for deep cleaning in WI

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What do you mean by deep cleaning?Brake cleaning fluid sprayed on all the action parts and in the barrel should remove all the junk.Just take the furniture off first.


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Check out Arts gun shop on YouTube. He is the Browning man.
He has one video about the Magical A5 .

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Where in WI? The gun smith shop in the old Gander Mountain store in Kenosha (Camper World now) is open again under new ownership. Roy worked there, ran it, and just worked out a deal to buy all the equipment and, for now, is in the same location. They do really nice work.


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You can do it yourself with Youtube.

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You can ship to Arts and he ships back to you.. He is good, I live close and drove up. He cleaned and fixed my A5 and I drove home with it.

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Originally Posted by LeonHitchcox
You can do it yourself with Youtube.

Yup, Brownell's has a series of videos on disassembly, cleaning/lubrication, reassembly. I used them yesterday do tear down & reassemble my BPS.
They recommend buying a set of thin screwdrivers for the job.



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Art's Gunshop in Hillsboro, Missouri is money ahead and well spent.


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Art's resoldered a rib and reblued the barrels of my Superposed about 6 years ago.

He really did a first-class job and got it back to me much sooner than expected.


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Axel59, here is a suggestion if MJ is close to you in WI.

https://www.mjgunshop.com/gunsmithing


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Maybe I'm missing something.
Is an A5 that hard to disassemble?
Lotta guns get by with a aerosol blast and a toot of oil.


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Originally Posted by MOGC
Art's Gunshop in Hillsboro, Missouri is money ahead and well spent.


There is no question he is top of the heap when it comes to browning A5's

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So what did u do ?


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Originally Posted by Dillonbuck
Maybe I'm missing something.
Is an A5 that hard to disassemble?
Lotta guns get by with a aerosol blast and a toot of oil.


They are not difficult but much more detailed and time consuming than an 870. Thin blade, hollow ground screwdrivers are needed and a 3/8 punch with one side ground flat for a retaining pin. Most old schoolers would either flush it with diesel fuel and lube the piss out of it, rather than do a full breakdown. In my teens and early 20s I did a stiff business, a month before pheasant season, doing tear downs for guys. I bought about a lot of them at pawn shops, frozen by caramelized oil and junk for cheap too. Fixed them up and tripled my money. Still have about a dozen Remington 11s and Brownings in the safe.

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Please guys, can someone clean my gun. Please... Oh, for fu cks sake..


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I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style.
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Find someone in your area that does ultrasonic cleaning.

No need to tear it all to bits and pieces

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Originally Posted by bsa1917hunter
Please guys, can someone clean my gun. Please... Oh, for fu cks sake..


Lol its a pre war A5, the thing is an antique, sorry for not wanting my inexperienced hands ruining an almost 100 year old gun

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I tried to take mine apart and could tell I was going to strip the screwheads. I talked to Art about it and he said you have to have the correct screwdrivers.

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Art is actually retired but the guys now running the shop are excellent and sharp….

But yes if you do it without a really good set of gunsmith screwdrivers AND be careful to pick the right blades… you will be sorry.
Brownells has the super thin blades in a kit.. I don’t think they are part of the normal kit.


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