Rimfire Suppressor newb questions

[John?]

BLUF: do you use any type of anti-seize when assembling the internal baffles of a rimfire suppressor?

Details. New to rimfire suppressors. I have disassembled and cleaned rimfire cans owned by others and it has uniformly been a pain in the neck. Carbon and lead are hard to remove. Baffles stuck together. Etc.

Wondering if using a copper bearing anti-seize will help with assembly and disassembly after cleaning. Does an anti-splatter coating (for welding) work on baffles the way it does on pistol compensators?

Thanks
-john

 

[Tiger_Shilone]

Ive used both the MIG welder anti splatter and anti-seize copper on rimfire baffles in the past. I still use the mig welder on baffles, anti seize just goes everywhere making a mess. Both seem equally effective at having carbon not stick as badly to baffle surfaces. I don’t use a lot of it, just a very light coating. This was done on a dead air mask and a silencerco spectre2 which both use cta baffle stacks.

Ive been lazy this year and haven’t cleaned a single can at all. The mask about 1100 rounds through it and a silencerco micro osprey (offset can) has around 900. Should be an interesting breakdown cleaning later this year as I am going to wait till around 2000 rounds count or accuracy degradation before cleaning them. The osprey is new to me and I want to see how the carbon builds in it. I bought it for the offset baffles as I got tired of standard stack baffle designs dropping crud back down the barrel when you vertically rack the rifle between stages at a match. I haven’t had the problem with the micro osprey so far this year over 8 matches

 

[John?]

@Tiger_Shilone
Thanks for sharing your experience. Very helpful to me.

 

[padom]

CLR to clean baffles to sparkling brand with no scrubbing and dielectric light coat for me. Works awesome

 

[John?]

CLR to clean baffles to sparkling brand with no scrubbing and dielectric light coat for me. Works awesome

Ordinary Dielectric grease?

 

[padom]

Ordinary Dielectric grease?

Yep, just a thin light coat on the parts after cleaning and drying everything before putting back together


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[padom]

Rugged Oculus22

Before









After a soak in a pickle jar with clr and rinsed with water.

 

[Sblzrd65]

Nope, nothing extra added. Toss the baffles info a sonic cleaner, come back in 30 min or so, dry and reassemble.