[wterrell]

I am sitting here looking at the cleaning rod and it looks like solder to me. Silver colored.
What about the cold blue, and the machining?
Was this sold to someone without telling them that this was a repair?
That is quite a bit unethical, don't you think?

There are two ways to interpret policeluger's post and I have taken one of them.

The other reply would be: You mean that there was no solder used in the original assembly of cleaning rods?