Posted: 7/28/2008 8:33:20 AM EDT
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I bought a 16 inch chrome lined Del Ton brand barrel. And for the life of me I can't stop it from rusting. It pops up on the sights, the barrels everything, it wipes off with some oil and elbow grease, but I worry about what I can't clean under the hand guards. I am storing my AR in my living room. It's not near any humidifiers and I keep my AC on to keep the place dry and cool. Any sugestions would be helpful. Prep |
| Once rust gets going it's real hard to stop IMHO. Suggest you clean (0000 steel wool with a light touch) and degrease really well, then apply CLP. If you maintain a thin CLP coat you shouldn't see rust. However, this is only a temp fix and requires constant maintenance. Refinishing is the long term answer, again, IMHO. Almost sounds like a problem with the orginial finish on the barrel, maybe you should contact Del Ton. |
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1) Remove your plastic parts and hose down everything with RemOil. Let it sit for a few minutes, now scrub off any rust you may see with a dry scotch bright pad, non-stick blue kind would probably work best. Use a little extra rem oil as a lubercant between the scrub pad and the metal to clean the rust off with. 2) Now spray it down again with Rem Oil, wipe it down with a lint free cotton cloth, run a few rem oil patches down the bore. 3) Coat all over again with Rem Oil then lightly wrap in news paper print overnight. The newspaper print will draw any excess oil off but leave the right ammount in the surface of the steel. Depending on your environment (temp, humidity and distance to salt sources), you might find that you need to repeat step number 3 on a weekly/monthly/yearly/ect basis. As you see the surface of the metal look dry, it's probably time to recoat. After a few applications, you'll probably see the time between oilings increase as the oils will start to buildup in the metals porous surface, allowing the oilings to last longer. Wes |