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Posted: 11/22/2008 7:20:06 PM EDT
| I bought my WASR-10 last Wednesday. It was pretty clean outwardly and I did clean it after I bought it. I have shot my WASR-10 on two separate range trips. The first one, I noticed that it bled a little bit of cosmoline from the handguard. Not too big of a deal. Today I put about 260 rounds through it. I noticed a sizzling yellow foam coming out of the handguard. Not too much mind you. But just enough to make me wonder, how many times will I have sizzling cosmoline come out of the handguard. I am new to AK's and thought I had cleaned the weapon adequately. Is this normal? BTW, I had a blast shooting my new toy again. I must say I LOVE my WASR! |
LOL . . . yeah, I heated up my relatively new WASR the other day and it was leaking out around the handguards. 
Of course, my hand got pretty warm too . . . and I think the other people at the range were "impressed" by the smoke coming from the handguard . . . I can't imagine what it would be like with rapid fire! |
| Glad you like the WASR i have 2 & love them. One in 7.62 & 5.45. I would remove all the furniture & remove as much cosmoline as possible. The best way is heat to remove the cosmo. I would not recommend the oven or dishwasher. Personaly i dont want to make a mess in my stove, & it stinks! I tried the dishwasher on a Yugo sks stock & it was very damaging to the wood. I will tell you what i did since its winter here. After cleaning the stock the best you can wrap it in shop towels, & leaned it up against my kerosene heater. Worked great for my M48 Mauser stock. Everyone has different ways to remove it, also kerosene, & mineral spirits work pretty good on cosmoline. |
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that noting. i have a 1945 m44 mosin that loves to drip cosmo when it heats up.where in sc you from? i'm up in fort mill. I live in Anderson, but do my shooting in Greenville at Allen Arms Indoor Range. There was a guy in there when I was shooting Saturday and he had a Mosin-Nagant m44. The first shot and everyone stopped to see what the hell made that big of a blast. That thing is a freaking cannon 
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For the metal parts, boil them on the stove, buy an old used pot at a Goodwill store if you want. Use your oven hood, too, so you don't think the place up.
Literally boil them. The cosmoline will come right off and float on the surface of the water. Brush them a little to get it out of the crevaces. This will leave your parts 100% cosmoline free at the water will evaporate off the metal in a couple of seconds. Then use your preservative of choice and shoot the heck out of it. I don't know how well that would work with wood parts, I'd probably bake wood parts in the oven or use a heat gun and about 30 rolls of paper towels. |
| The best method of removing cosmo is to take a heat gun on a low setting and heat the wood up, obviously trying not to heat the wood up to much. As the cosmo comes out just wipe it off with a paper towel and repeat until all the cosmo is gone. This should not take you more than 15min or so..... |
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