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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:20:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mineral spirits gets it right off. I use it on all my surplus parts kits and mags. I usually put a couple cans of it in a 5 gallon bucket, drop all the parts or mags in, pull them out a few minutes later and the cosmo is completely removed. This is the way. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:22:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Even after a thorough cleaning the cosmo still oozes out of every nook and cranny when you shoot it.  |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:23:10 PM EDT
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I wrapped my mosin in a black towel and left it on my dashboard for a day. Kinda hard to do in the winter though.
Mineral spirits or hot water work well. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:23:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm sure child labor, and possibly mineral spirits are verboten in the people's glorious republic of Bloomberg. He’s a lawyer. He probably has the ability to write up a NDA Or threaten to take away cartoons |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:24:56 PM EDT
[#5]
Hair dryer.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:27:54 PM EDT
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Remove the action from the stock, use boiling hot water to melt the grease off of the action. I do it over a cardboard box with old rags in it. You shouldn't need a bunch of water. Detail clean and lubricate as needed. Why waste all the mineral sprits then have to get rid of it.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:29:20 PM EDT
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gasoline in a trough (no smoking) LOL
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:30:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Safe queen? I just throw my Soviet sks away after 500 rounds. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Nice. I've only got about 500 rds for mine  , but it's a Russian safe queen anyway.Safe queen? I just throw my Soviet sks away after 500 rounds. 
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:37:53 PM EDT
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Is it a Yugo SKS? If your having functioning problems with a Yugo, it may not be excess cosmoline, but a bad gas valve. Read up on it, easy fix.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:38:22 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Mineral spirits gets it right off. I use it on all my surplus parts kits and mags. I usually put a couple cans of it in a 5 gallon bucket, drop all the parts or mags in, pull them out a few minutes later and the cosmo is completely removed. This and then you can also use Brake Cleaner to spray into hard to reach places like around the sights and gas tube. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:40:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Boiling hot water and elbow grease? Oil when finished. If it was summer put stock in black garbage bag inside of car out in the sun. Sweat the cosmoline to the surface. This works even when you think it is all out. Have also used hair dryers with some success. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:42:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: He's a lawyer. He probably has the ability to write up a NDA Or threaten to take away cartoons Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'm sure child labor, and possibly mineral spirits are verboten in the people's glorious republic of Bloomberg. He's a lawyer. He probably has the ability to write up a NDA Or threaten to take away cartoons |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:45:19 PM EDT
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Get two cans of cheap spray carb cleaner, like from the Walmart auto supply, disassemble, spray every bit until both cans are gone, lube, reassemble.
I'm not kidding. It's fast, messy, and cheap. Like an SKS. But they both work. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:45:35 PM EDT
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The dude I purchased mine from was giving a free can of cleaner with them, he said, “ you’ll need it.” He wasn’t wrong.
Years later there is still some on it. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:46:44 PM EDT
[#15]
Ost i need to do one its cached
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:51:41 PM EDT
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Real Hot water and detergent and a good brush with elbow grease.
Rinse in hot water and oil liberally. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:56:03 PM EDT
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Take it apart and put in your oven. File for divorce.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 3:06:17 PM EDT
[#18]
I have cleaned up several guns full of cosmoline and find mineral sprits seem to work best. There are several videos on youtube detailing how to disasssemble an SKS.
Most advise to be sure and clean the bolt and firing pin because a cosmo stuck firing pin can lead to slam fires. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 3:08:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Shoot it off. I tried, it stopped shooting |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 3:36:06 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/20/2021 3:40:57 PM EDT
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Mineral spirits for initial surface cleaning, then wood parts in the oven at lowest it'll go to sweat the rest out. It may take several times of wiping it off the stock and hand guards and putting them back in the oven for another "sweat", rinse, repeat, etc. Use foil in the oven unless you want to hear it from the wife. You might hear it anyway over the smell.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:09:42 PM EDT
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Aimless,I wish I had known! I still owe you a couple of favors...
I would've done it for you. My recipe is easy. Old rain gutter with 2 ends about 3.5 feet long. One 5 gallon bucket and lid. One pair of Playtex dish washing gloves. One package of harbor freight 3 pack of disposable steel/brass/nylon brushes. Rags or shop towels. 1 package of fine steel wool 2 gallons camp stove fuel (the kind for the old Coleman stoves) Field strip the gun, and remove the steel buttplate screws , door and buttplate itself and set aside parts. Take the rifle and throw the stock and barreled action in the gutter and cover with Coleman fuel for about an hour and a half. Use the brass and nylon bristle brushes to scrub the action and the nooks and crannies of the stock. Take the steel wool and use it to scrub the larger portion of the surface of the steel, and remove to barreled action from the cleaner. set aside and let dry. While the action dries work on the stock with the steel wool to remove the cosmoline that sweated out of the stock, you may have to soak the stock a number of times to get it all out of the wood, I average about 2-3 times to get get all of it extracted from the pores of the wood depending on what model and how long it sat in cosmo. I then put the gas tube, piston, fire control and buttplate in the 5 gallon bucket with the coleman fuel I emptied from the process into the 5 gallon bucket, and let the parts soak overnight. The next day I remove the parts and clean the same way. the wood on the gas tube might need a couple of soakings like the stock did. Re-assemble and enjoy! Call me if you have questions.  |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:13:52 PM EDT
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Hot soapy water, that how I cleaned my old Yugo AK kits, then soak in parts cleaner and lube.
Well actually it was my wife.  |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:14:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hot soapy water, that how I cleaned my old Yugo AK kits, then soak in parts cleaner and lube. Well actually it was my wife. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/20856/D2E0B085-A5BB-469A-ACC8-B41B9629BCB1-1788939.jpg |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:15:55 PM EDT
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Put it in the dishwasher.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:16:44 PM EDT
[#26]
Leave it out in the sun
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:16:55 PM EDT
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I used break cleaner to clean the cosmoline off my Mak.
Worked really well. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:18:29 PM EDT
[#28]
Kerosene is better than mineral spirits for cosmo removal
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:23:06 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Mineral spirits gets it right off. I use it on all my surplus parts kits and mags. I usually put a couple cans of it in a 5 gallon bucket, drop all the parts or mags in, pull them out a few minutes later and the cosmo is completely removed. Until the eco craze hit it was standard issue in all automotive repair shops. It will do the job. I use it in my parts cleaner, we have a petroleum supplier that sells it at the pump. it's around $5 per gallon. Ace / Lowes, etc, probably carry it. |
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Posted: 1/21/2021 1:25:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Heck you can even use gasoline. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Okay Heck you can even use gasoline. I live dangerously. Used gas on all my milsurps metal parts. Wood, throw in black garbage bag and roast it in my car during the summer. I haven't started anything on fire yet |
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Posted: 1/21/2021 2:24:34 AM EDT
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We used to take them to the car was, and use the engine cleaner mode. Then rinse, dry, and lube very well.
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Posted: 1/21/2021 2:30:12 AM EDT
[#32]
Gasoline or kerosene. Gas eats it right off metal. Soak in a coffee can for smaller parts or a 5 gallon bucket with a gallon in it for the barrel. Swish around.
Blow off with air gun and oil. |
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Posted: 1/21/2021 4:14:40 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: gasoline in a trough (no smoking) LOL Works great.. |
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Posted: 1/21/2021 4:34:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I used break cleaner to clean the cosmoline off my Mak. Worked really well. Yep - Brake Cleaner definitely works. |
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Posted: 1/21/2021 4:36:12 AM EDT
[#35]
put it in a camp fire.
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Posted: 1/21/2021 7:07:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: put it in a camp fire. https://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/58519.html |
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Posted: 1/21/2021 7:14:13 AM EDT
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I heard about running them through the dishwasher after gasoline, etc. I loaded 4 stocks into my wife's brand new dishwasher and it worked!
She was not pleased her dishwasher was orange inside for a few months. I don't recommend this method. |
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Posted: 1/21/2021 7:15:08 AM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Mineral spirits gets it right off. I use it on all my surplus parts kits and mags. I usually put a couple cans of it in a 5 gallon bucket, drop all the parts or mags in, pull them out a few minutes later and the cosmo is completely removed. This is what I did when I bought one. |
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