Suppressors ratchets? cleaning?

[Nukes]

What is this thing "cleaning" I hear about?

After having a QD Gemtech coke onto the brake/adapter mount, WD40 came to the rescue.

Since then, I am a bit more circumspect about the period between cleanings, but I wonder especially about the ratchet-style QD mounts.

What precautions do owners take? Anti-seize, cleaning cycles, favored cleaning agents, ammo brands, lubes, etc.?

Or has bad experience caused members to completely avoid the ratchet or QD style mounts?

I ask in consideration of getting an AAC 762SDN6. Will cleaning be a constant chore?

 

[phxfa]

Just taking the can off every once in a while will clean most. I did have a 762-SD lock up on a rifle at a PD hunt. Taking it off was a bitch. This is the same mount as yhe N6 your looking at. Surefires you just unlock and shoot off,,,says so in the destuctions and Ive done it,,,

 

[rjacobs]

Ive never had my SDN-6 lock onto the mount, but I take it off at the range every time while its still hot. I never leave it on the gun after a range trip(after everything cools when I get home I put it back on the gun as its my main HD gun). I did have the mount un-screw off the gun, but the can came off the mount and I just cleaned up the threads and re-rockset the mount back onto the gun. I am sure it was my fault that I didnt use enough rockset or clean the threads well enough when I did the initial install.

Get you some good heat resistant gloves. I have taken the can off while it was smoking with my Camel Back Heat Grip gloves and while hot and I didnt want to hold onto it, it wasnt impossible. Lots of guys swear by the Nomex flight gloves and they are cheap too.

 

[Nukes]

Has anyone tried the anti-seize compounds for this purpose?

 

[phxfa]

makes more of a mess, Ive use the extreme high heat anti-seize on my thread on cans but not on my 762 sd's
If you take the can off every 300 rds or so they wont lock up. I ran 1000 or more Prairie dogging without removing it and thats when I had a problem