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Posted: 12/17/2014 2:56:44 PM EDT
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I scrub it with Hoppes #9
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Posted: 12/17/2014 2:57:05 PM EDT
[#2]
Stoddard Solvent
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Posted: 12/17/2014 2:57:28 PM EDT
[#3]
Lacquer thinner.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 2:58:04 PM EDT
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Lacquer thinner. Mineral spirits work too. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 2:58:45 PM EDT
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I spoon it and the heat from my loins melts it away.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 2:59:48 PM EDT
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Heat works wonders.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:00:01 PM EDT
[#7]
Mineral spirits and a toothbrush.
/thread. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:01:43 PM EDT
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I scrub it with Hoppes #9 I've used Hoppes #9 and it worked. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:02:05 PM EDT
[#9]
For the metal parts, I soak them in mineral sprits for a few days to soften it, then it comes off real easy with a brush. Use Gun Scrubber to get the last bits out of nooks and crannies.
For stocks, I do the black plastic garbage bag in a hot car thing, and wipe it off with denatured alchohol after every time. How many times you need to bake it depends on how much cosmo has soaked into the wood. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:02:32 PM EDT
[#10]
Gasoline
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:03:12 PM EDT
[#11]
I clean the metal parts with gasoline and use laundry detergent for the stocks. Scrub with brush until clean and then blow off everything with the air hose. After that all the metal parts get a nice coat of oil.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:03:36 PM EDT
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I made a cosmoline oven out of a length of 8"x12" duct with two 100 watt light bulbs for heat. You'll want to prop up one end just slightly and put down something for the grease to run into. My oven has probably degreased almost 100 surplus rifles between myself and a buddy that borrows it.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:03:57 PM EDT
[#13]
Hot day in the middle of summer put items in black trash bag on dash of car. How I did it.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:04:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:17:18 PM EDT
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Gasoline THIS! 
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:21:07 PM EDT
[#16]
WD 40
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:24:19 PM EDT
[#17]
Wife's dishwasher
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:26:47 PM EDT
[#18]
hot soapy water. People tend to overthink this.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:28:30 PM EDT
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Bidet
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:30:30 PM EDT
[#20]
diesel
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:32:03 PM EDT
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Mineral spirits and a toothbrush. /thread. this |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:33:30 PM EDT
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Take the furniture off. Strip the gun as much as possible. Soak it in the bathtub with water as hot as it gets, and dawn soap. Scrub it. Then, pour boiling water over the parts to rinse. Use the air compressor to dry. Oil. My nagants come out clean every time.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:35:13 PM EDT
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You can ask four people and get five different answers . Heat works best but can be very slow. Solvents also work, and quicker, but some are hard on the wood. I've found hot (really hot) soapy water is about the best compromise.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:37:12 PM EDT
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THIS! Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Gasoline THIS! |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:09:59 PM EDT
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I bought one of those Romanian 22 trainer bolt guns back in the day for $25. It was so caked full of cosmo that I ended up filling a section of roofing gutter with kerosene and letting the entire rifle soak for a weekend. Before the soak I couldn't even get the bolt back, after the soak it was like butter.
I've used kerosene on an AK that Century didn't bother to clean with the same good effects also. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:11:48 PM EDT
[#26]
Mineral spirits and a toothbrush.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:14:13 PM EDT
[#27]
Solvent for metal, hair dryer for wood.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:15:00 PM EDT
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WD 40 |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:18:59 PM EDT
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Most of the time, I just take whatever it is apart and lean it agaist something in my garage over a few rags for a week or two if it is hot outside. In the winter, I usually use mineral spirits.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:22:01 PM EDT
[#30]
Make a cosmoline cooker (Google it up).
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:23:15 PM EDT
[#31]
The smell used to bother me, now it's strangely comforting.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:24:15 PM EDT
[#32]
Inside a parked car on a sunny Texas day in July.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:24:45 PM EDT
[#33]
Can you soak the metal parts too long in the mineral spirits?
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:27:46 PM EDT
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Solvent for metal parts and the good 'ol Texas summer heat for wood.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:28:32 PM EDT
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sneak into a chicken fryer when nobody is looking
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:34:33 PM EDT
[#36]
Heat.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:36:06 PM EDT
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For stocks I have used oven cleaner.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:44:39 PM EDT
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hot soapy water. People tend to overthink this. Yup. I've used Dicro-Clean from Brownell's in a turkey roaster at 180 degrees F with great success, but I suspect the white powder is just Tide Laundry Detergent in a different container. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:45:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:49:09 PM EDT
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Wife's dishwasher Thats how mine got clean. She is exwife now though. Thank god....not from the garand in there along with 20 fal mags. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:50:52 PM EDT
[#41]
Mineral spirits on the metal, and to get the top coat off the wood. Heat to leech the rest of it out of the wood.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 5:53:37 PM EDT
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hot soapy water. People tend to overthink this. This. Then clean and oil as normal. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:05:21 PM EDT
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Fill a big pot with water and boil it on a camping stove outside. Drop all metal parts into said boiling water. It makes gun soup and the cosmo floats to the top. Blowdryer or cheese cloth with an iron on low for wood.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:08:56 PM EDT
[#44]
Hot air gun
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:10:05 PM EDT
[#45]
I soak the barrel/receiver in a pvc pipe of mineral sprits and the small parts in a tub. Stocks I clean with lemon pledge.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:17:00 PM EDT
[#46]
You're supposed to remove it?
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:19:43 PM EDT
[#47]
Pot of boiling water with a bit of dish soap.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:20:50 PM EDT
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For stocks, I do the black plastic garbage bag in a hot car thing, and wipe it off with denatured alchohol after every time. How many times you need to bake it depends on how much cosmo has soaked into the wood. I was very pleasantly surprised at how well this worked the first time I did it. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:22:18 PM EDT
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I soak the barrel/receiver in a pvc pipe of mineral sprits and the small parts in a tub. Stocks I clean with lemon pledge. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/lees99f150/cleaningpipe007_zpsb962c5ed.jpg Nice spud gun! |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:25:41 PM EDT
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I use mineral spirits or alcohol on metal and oven cleaner on wood stocks. They say the oven cleaner does damage to the wood, but I have not seen it. I have only done this with military surplus rifles, so they probably were only stripped of cosmoline once in a lifetime.
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