Thanks for all of the replies.

I bought some SSR and found there was a little bit of carbon dust left inside the shaft. So much for the proshop cleaning them out good! [:@]

I found some black carbon dust mixed in with epoxy on the inserts I had pulled out of the shafts. So I definitley think my problem wasdust left inside the shaft.

I like the brush idea, I will probably end up using the borecleaning kit I have for my handguns. They have all sorts of different cal. brass brushes.

I bought some Ferr-L-Lite hot melt, I willtryyour ideas Kodiak as well. Thanks once again

Bols