Thread: Cleaning a DPT

Whats the go team? Been slack and now cant get the first baffle off either. Heaps of carbon so what do you do to tidy it up?

You can but spanners for them and you can use oil filter wrench but 8 would bother just leave it and use it. What ever you do don't clean it with solvent and then fire it. It will blow up.

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How many rounds is that from? How often you slide to clean em?

Just took mine all apart and soaked it in hot water and simple green bro worked mint. No e was way more wrecked than that with probably only 40 or so rounds of wsm through it

Whats simple green ryan? Did you take the o rings off?

Simple green is an awesome cleaning product for heaps of stuff.
Should find it in the supermarket, auto store etc

Ima just try dishwashing liquid for now

Plant based cleaner, citrus from memory
I spray mine with WD40, once apart, then wipe off the excess with a paper towel

Soaking it in really hot water for 1/2 an hour seems a plan, should soften all the goo, incl in the threads, nicely
Let us know how you go.

Ive got slip 2000 that citris based carbon remover i use on the barrel on standby

Carb clean might work too bro. Simple Green is amazing shit. As for undoing it, a couple of strap wrenches will work if you can get them. Trip to Repco! I also use lanocote on the threads so they don't lock up in the first place

Yea simple green is some magic shit that I found in the Mrs box of tricks (minds out of the gutter, the box under the sink) it's mint for cleaning brass too, just give anything a soak in hot water and simple green and it comes up good as new. Think it's pine based or something.

Tape the baffle sections to avoid scratching the finish and then use hose clamps to gain purchase with which to break them apart.

Simple green must be completely rinsed from aluminium as it is corrosive to alloy, I presume same precaution might apply to duralium?
They make a separate aircraft wash product for this reason.

DPT has a good PDF on maintaining their supressors, it's been posted here before but I can't find a link on their website.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

the box under the sink

Depends on how tall when alongside the sink

Originally Posted by Moutere

Tape the baffle sections to avoid scratching the finish and then use hose clamps to gain purchase with which to break them apart.

Simple green must be completely rinsed from aluminium as it is corrosive to alloy, I presume same precaution might apply to duralium?
They make a separate aircraft wash product for this reason.

DPT has a good PDF on maintaining their supressors, it's been posted here before but I can't find a link on their website.

Yep tape, hose clamps and a couple of crescents does the job nicely

http://www.dpt.co.nz/attachment.php?id_attachment=3